| 100% | PORED | 5 | With 68-Across, studied |
| 81% | AMOS | 4 | With 68 Across, old radio duo |
| 80% | ROSIE | 5 | With 68 Across, former daytime TV host |
| 79% | POINT | 5 | With 68 Across, player often running the offense |
| 68% | AVON | 4 | With 68-Across, bell ringer |
| 68% | ASYOU | 5 | With 68-Across, "Carry on" |
| 68% | MAPLE | 5 | With 68-Across, pancake topping |
| 67% | PAUL | 4 | With 68-Across, Garfunkel's partner |
| 67% | EGGS | 4 | With 68-Across, words before "easy" |
| 66% | ESPRESSO | 8 | With 68-Across, something to finish with |
| 66% | COLE | 4 | With 68-Across, fish filet go-with |
| 65% | THE | 3 | With 68-Across, end of a Hemingway title |
| 63% | CENTRAL | 7 | With 68-Across, the circled part of this crossword |
| 63% | BONING | 6 | With 18-Across, studying hard |
| 62% | ROBBEN | 6 | With 68-Across, prison where 36-Across spent 18 years |
| 62% | THAW | 4 | With 68-Across, release philosopher John Stuart from cryonic suspension? |
| 62% | TACO | 4 | With 68-Across, baked dishes that might contain corn chips |
| 61% | LOUISARMSTRONG | 14 | Repeated collaborator with 68-/70-Across |
| 61% | SLIPPERY | 8 | With 68-Across, precarious situations, as suggested by the circled letters |
| 59% | THREE | 5 | With 68-Across, what Fred MacMurray had in a 1960's sitcom |
| 59% | ERIC | 4 | With 68-Across, co-creator of the British parody band the Rutles |
| 59% | THE | 3 | With 36-Across, rhinologist's study |
| 58% | WATER | 5 | With 68-Across, what the groups of circled letters are famous examples of |
| 58% | WERELOST | 8 | With 68- and 97-Across, his comment while driving to Cooperstown |
| 58% | ERNST | 5 | With 61-Across, physicist who studied supersonics |
| 58% | GERMAN | 6 | With 32-Across, study of Hesse and Mann, informally |
| 57% | HIDDEN | 6 | With 68-Across, ulterior motive … or what 21-, 37- and 59-Across each has? |
| 57% | SEPARATE | 8 | With 68-Across, 1958 David Niven film, and a feature of the starred answers |
| 57% | PANCAKES | 8 | 68 Across fare |
| 57% | SORE | 4 | 68 Across backward |