| 100% | THEUNIVERSITYOF | 15 | With 66 Across, the (luckily for us) hard-to-get-to site of the P.D.Q. Bach Museum |
| 35% | PEARL | 5 | With 4 Down, site of the attack that on today's date in 1941 lead to the US entering WWII |
| 34% | FANFAREFORTHE | 13 | With 33 Across, P.D.Q. Bach piece with a lot of horn-blowing (and probably nose-blowing) |
| 33% | RID | 3 | Hard to get ___ of (difficult to part with) |
| 33% | FULL | 4 | With 66-Across, back to the beginning ... or a description of 21- and 48-Down? |
| 32% | HARRYS | 6 | With 40-Across, US vice president who became president upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1945: 2 wds. |
| 32% | MEASURETWICE | 12 | With 66-Across, carpentry adage that also describes the first words of the answers to the starred clues |
| 32% | HOMEALONE | 9 | 1990 film that Roger Ebert called "so implausible that it makes it hard for us to really care about the plight of the kid" |
| 31% | SESAME | 6 | With 63-Across, where to find all the characters at the starts of 17-, 24-, 40-, 52- and 66-Across |
| 31% | ARKHAM | 6 | With 33-Across, institution for the criminally insane that is central to the plot of "Gotham" |
| 31% | RUDYARD | 7 | With 42 Across, British author of ''How the Camel Got His Hump'' |
| 31% | PEPPERS | 7 | With 15 Across, illusion that uses a reflection to create the appearance of a phantom |
| 31% | TINA | 4 | ___ Turner, former member of the duo with Ike who is known for her solo hits like "What's Love Got To Do with It" and "Private Dancer" |
| 30% | NEWDEAL | 7 | Name given to the domestic policies of US president Franklin D Roosevelt for economic and social reform during his first term of office |
| 30% | HUMPDAY | 7 | Part of the week that's hard to get over |
| 30% | HAMMEROUTAWIN | 13 | Work really hard for victory ... and a hint to the start of 20-, 31- and 39-Across |
| 30% | BEAUTY | 6 | With 33-Down, where to go for the ends of 16-, 20-, 40-, 56- and 62-Across |
| 30% | XBOXLIVE | 8 | Service for playing Call of Duty in real time with someone across the country, say |
| 30% | JAMES | 5 | P D —, author of the novels Original Sin and A Mind to Murder |
| 30% | EROO | 4 | Suffix with switch to get the word for a sudden change |
| 30% | PAR | 3 | Golf term for the number of strokes to get a hole |
| 30% | EDEN | 4 | Site of "every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food" |
| 30% | COMPSCI | 7 | Class where it's best to get with the program, for short? |
| 29% | RUDOLPHTHE | 10 | With 57 Across, a more accurate way to describe the guy who works the mother of all night jobs? |
| 29% | MAKEA | 5 | With 69- and 70-Across, get to the point . . . or what you’ll need to do with some of the answers in this puzzle? |
| 29% | UNCLE | 5 | With 8-Across, personification of the U.S. government |
| 29% | POSTBAIL | 8 | Get out of the cooler, with "for" |
| 29% | GOBLIN | 6 | With 27 Across, Oxford's Word of the Year for 2022, defined as self-indulgent behavior |
| 29% | LIKABLE | 7 | Having the qualities of someone you might want to get a beer with, say |
| 29% | CROSSER | 7 | With 66-Across, one with the traits of a traitor |