| 100% | CAMINO | 6 | With 65-Across, a Spanish highway |
| 73% | CHIA | 4 | With 65 Across, morsel in a smoothie |
| 64% | IDONT | 5 | With 65-Across, "Not a clue" |
| 63% | PETRI | 5 | With 65-Across, container for a culture |
| 60% | FLIP | 4 | With 65-Across, part of a record ... or what each of this puzzle's five long Across answers has? |
| 59% | EVERY | 5 | With 65-Across, it has a 54-Across, so they say |
| 58% | BLUE | 4 | With 65 Across, ''deep'' locale |
| 58% | DISC | 4 | With 65 Across, Xbox part |
| 58% | TOTHEBACK | 9 | With 65 Across, ''Move it!'' |
| 57% | JACK | 4 | With 65-Across, second in a series of five TV personalities (1957-62) |
| 57% | CRIME | 5 | With 65-Across, investigation site, and a punny description of the HEIST answers |
| 57% | LAKE | 4 | With 65 Across. ''Great'' water bordering Ohio |
| 56% | ACCESS | 6 | With 16-Across, way leading to a highway |
| 56% | ORCA | 4 | With 65-Across, underwater creature that actually IS a 65-Across despite a common misconception |
| 55% | CREW | 4 | With 65-Across, private dos, and a hint to this puzzle's five theme answers |
| 55% | PABLO | 5 | With 31-Across, Spanish artist with a Blue Period |
| 55% | TURNBACK | 8 | With 65 Across, return to the way it was |
| 53% | LIFEWITHOUT | 11 | With 65 Across, what some 1992 and '96 voters dreamed of? |
| 53% | SPLIT | 5 | With 65-Across, chore on a winter to-do list ... and what appears in each set of circles |
| 52% | BUT | 3 | With 75 Across, a gas |
| 51% | LIME | 4 | With 56 Across, a summer cooler |
| 51% | KEY | 3 | With 52 Across, a Florida attraction |
| 51% | RON | 3 | With 136 Across, a rum brand |
| 51% | YES | 3 | With 89 Across, a confident assent |
| 51% | ONE | 3 | With 41 Across, a vitamin brand |
| 51% | LIFE | 4 | With 127 Across, a popular candy |
| 51% | DEMONSAREA | 10 | With 105 Across, a Halloween tune? |
| 51% | RTE | 3 | Highway with a no. |
| 51% | THOMAS | 6 | With 65 Across, the first to see his name ''up in lights'' (1881) |
| 51% | PUCK | 4 | *With 65-Across, faceoff in a hockey game |