| 100% | BLEW | 4 | With 66-Across, left speechless |
| 55% | CHIA | 4 | With 47 Across, ceramic figurine with leaves |
| 55% | OPATRIA | 7 | With 66-Across, "Aida" aria |
| 55% | NOT | 3 | With 66-Across, Bond specification |
| 55% | SODA | 4 | With 66-Across, fizzy drink |
| 55% | NEAT | 4 | With 66-Across, "Good thinking!" |
| 55% | CUTFROMTHE | 10 | With 66-Across, fundamentally similar |
| 54% | NILE | 4 | With 66-Across, Egyptian agricultural area |
| 54% | MARCHOFTHE | 10 | With 66-Across, 2005 nature documentary |
| 54% | ALA | 3 | With 66-Across, like some menus |
| 53% | YOGI | 4 | With 66-Across, catcher with catchy comments |
| 53% | WHATISSORAREASA | 15 | With 66-Across, an observation by Lowell |
| 53% | LENA | 4 | With 66-Across, "Romeo is Bleeding" star |
| 53% | TATER | 5 | With 66-Across, little source of carbs |
| 53% | ABE | 3 | With 66-Across, former New York politician |
| 52% | THEUNIVERSITYOF | 15 | With 66 Across, the (luckily for us) hard-to-get-to site of the P.D.Q. Bach Museum |
| 52% | PEANUTS | 7 | With 66-Across, possible title for this puzzle |
| 52% | THICK | 5 | With 66-Across, slow learner in the litter? |
| 52% | REVERSEEACH | 11 | With 66-Across, hint for solving this puzzle |
| 51% | UNDER | 5 | With 66-Across, like water that's behind you? |
| 51% | TIM | 3 | With 66-Across, Tea Leoni's "Madam Secretary" husband |
| 51% | NATIONALRANGERS | 15 | With 66-Across, public park patrollers faced feathered facsimiles? |
| 50% | CROSSER | 7 | With 66-Across, one with the traits of a traitor |
| 50% | FAKE | 4 | With 66-Across, what might prompt an exclamation of disbelief |
| 49% | WOODY | 5 | With 66-Across, subject of this puzzle, born 12/1/1935 |
| 49% | KARL | 4 | With 66-Across, German philosopher buried in London's Highgate Cemetery |
| 49% | MAMA | 4 | With 66-Across, fairy-tale character whose bed was too soft |
| 47% | AWED | 4 | Left speechless |
| 47% | INAWE | 5 | Left speechless |
| 47% | GOBSMACKED | 10 | Left speechless |