| 100% | CHIA | 4 | With 65 Across, morsel in a smoothie |
| 58% | JACK | 4 | With 65-Across, second in a series of five TV personalities (1957-62) |
| 52% | SPLIT | 5 | With 65-Across, chore on a winter to-do list ... and what appears in each set of circles |
| 52% | PEAR | 4 | With 63 Across, ''partridge in a'' place |
| 52% | THOMAS | 6 | With 65 Across, the first to see his name ''up in lights'' (1881) |
| 49% | PARK | 4 | With 16 Across, block traffic, in a way |
| 49% | CAMINO | 6 | With 65-Across, a Spanish highway |
| 49% | IDONT | 5 | With 65-Across, "Not a clue" |
| 48% | BUGGY | 5 | With 14 Across, Volkswagen Beetle in a car game |
| 48% | PUCK | 4 | *With 65-Across, faceoff in a hockey game |
| 47% | HEBREW | 6 | With 65-Across, what aleph begins, in linguistics |
| 47% | AMAZON | 6 | Company with a major stake in 13 Across |
| 47% | PETRI | 5 | With 65-Across, container for a culture |
| 47% | WORKINGHARDOR | 13 | With 47 Across, facetious question to someone putting in a shift |
| 47% | MARCO | 5 | With 74 Across, explorer whose name is shouted in a pool |
| 47% | MANGO | 5 | Tropical smoothie fruit with a verb in its name |
| 47% | CAMEROON | 8 | With 65-Across, spot for ping pong in Yaoundé? |
| 46% | RICHARD | 7 | With 19 Across, billionaire who took a notable vacation in July 2021 |
| 46% | WHITEHOUSE | 10 | With 50 Across, to whom Tom Hanks gave a 39 Across in 2017 |
| 46% | PEA | 3 | Morsel in a pod |
| 46% | SHRIMP | 6 | Morsel in a cocktail |
| 46% | OAT | 3 | Morsel in a manger |
| 46% | SEED | 4 | Morsel in a pumpkin |
| 45% | DRY | 3 | With 10 Across, what cannot be seen in the house after a tearjerker |
| 45% | TARA | 4 | With 65-Across, actress who starred in all six “Sharknado” films |
| 45% | FLIP | 4 | With 65-Across, part of a record ... or what each of this puzzle's five long Across answers has? |
| 45% | KALE | 4 | Green that might go in a smoothie |
| 45% | TEN | 3 | Number of sides in a 65-Across |
| 45% | MOM | 3 | One in a union with 41-Across |
| 45% | DRAKE | 5 | Rapper in a beef with 7-Across |