| 100% | STEVEN | 6 | With 69-Across, asker of the question |
| 59% | TOMORROWISALONG | 15 | With 69 Across, Bob Dylan song about the future |
| 58% | HIGH | 4 | With 69-Across, where to find the ends of 17-, 22-, 32-, 43-, 54- and 61-Across |
| 57% | IRON | 4 | With 21 Across, one of the Avengers |
| 57% | GEORGE | 6 | With 39 Across, coiner of the slogan |
| 57% | LEONARD | 7 | With 18 Across, recipient of the comment |
| 56% | ALLFORONE | 9 | With 24 Across, slogan of The Three Musketeers |
| 54% | ARE | 3 | With 62 Across, a question of confirmation |
| 54% | GEORGE | 6 | With 24 Across, loser of the first really serious pie fight? |
| 53% | OTIS | 4 | With 72 Across, the King of Elevator Music? |
| 53% | HALF | 4 | With 69-Across, ship of 55-Across |
| 52% | LINE | 4 | With 14 Across, payoff at the end of a joke |
| 52% | THEFIRSTTIMEEVERI | 17 | With 127 Across, the best-selling hat song of 1972? |
| 52% | TIMEHEALS | 9 | With 12 Across, maxim stressing the natural resolution of problems |
| 52% | ADAM | 4 | With 69-Across, caped crusader player of 1966 |
| 52% | 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? |
| 52% | YOU | 3 | With 39-Across, answer to the question "Who's the solver of this puzzle?" |
| 51% | BRYAN | 5 | With 36-Across, "Summer of '69" singer with the 1985 song "Heaven" |
| 51% | VOLODYMYR | 9 | With 27 Across, Time's Person of the Year of 2022 |
| 51% | TENNIS | 6 | With 41-Across, question associated with the last words of 17-, 26-, 55- and 64-Across |
| 51% | BOOBY | 5 | With 127 Across, one of many devices thwarting the burglars in "Home Alone" |
| 50% | DARK | 4 | With 12 Across, period that followed the fall of the Roman Empire |
| 50% | JOE | 3 | With 18 Across, 46th male President of the United States of America |
| 50% | RUDYARD | 7 | With 42 Across, British author of ''How the Camel Got His Hump'' |
| 50% | MARYJANE | 8 | Flat style of shoe with a strap across the instep |
| 50% | DEL | 3 | With 100 Across, Spanish ''of the sun'' |
| 50% | KAMALA | 6 | With 19 Across, first female Vice President of the United States of America |
| 49% | MONO | 4 | With 69-Across, what each set of letters in parentheses represents |
| 49% | DOABLE | 6 | Not at all out of the question |
| 49% | ENOUGH | 6 | Middle of the quip, with 37-Across |