| 100% | PAUL | 4 | With 68-Across, Garfunkel's partner |
| 59% | AMOS | 4 | With 68 Across, old radio duo |
| 59% | SIMON | 5 | Garfunkel's partner with whom he sang "Bridge Over Troubled Water" |
| 58% | ROSIE | 5 | With 68 Across, former daytime TV host |
| 57% | POINT | 5 | With 68 Across, player often running the offense |
| 52% | THREE | 5 | With 68-Across, what Fred MacMurray had in a 1960's sitcom |
| 51% | PORED | 5 | With 68-Across, studied |
| 50% | REVENUE | 7 | With 39 Across, income distribution to partners |
| 50% | AVON | 4 | With 68-Across, bell ringer |
| 50% | ASYOU | 5 | With 68-Across, "Carry on" |
| 50% | MAPLE | 5 | With 68-Across, pancake topping |
| 50% | OATES | 5 | Garfunkel's partner |
| 50% | SIMON | 5 | Garfunkel's partner |
| 49% | EGGS | 4 | With 68-Across, words before "easy" |
| 49% | SIMON | 5 | Garfunkel’s singing partner |
| 49% | JAZZ | 4 | With 68-Across, what the trio in this puzzle's clues is trying to promote |
| 49% | FALSE | 5 | With 68-Across, sprinter's infraction, or what the answer to each starred clue has |
| 48% | ESPRESSO | 8 | With 68-Across, something to finish with |
| 48% | COLE | 4 | With 68-Across, fish filet go-with |
| 48% | SIMON | 5 | Garfunkel's partner in song |
| 48% | NESTING | 7 | With 68-Across, each successive one of a set graphically depicted by this puzzle's circles |
| 47% | ROAST | 5 | With 39-Across, make fun of Maverick’s flying partner? |
| 47% | ANNE | 4 | With 44-Across, Jerry Stiller's wife and comedy partner |
| 47% | THE | 3 | With 68-Across, end of a Hemingway title |
| 46% | CENTRAL | 7 | With 68-Across, the circled part of this crossword |
| 45% | ROBBEN | 6 | With 68-Across, prison where 36-Across spent 18 years |
| 45% | THAW | 4 | With 68-Across, release philosopher John Stuart from cryonic suspension? |
| 45% | TACO | 4 | With 68-Across, baked dishes that might contain corn chips |
| 45% | SEXY | 4 | *With 68-Across, lingerie model's asset |
| 45% | LOUISARMSTRONG | 14 | Repeated collaborator with 68-/70-Across |