| 100% | MABELL | 6 | With 69-Across, bygone phone message |
| 56% | AID | 3 | Verb associated with 69 Across |
| 55% | TEXT | 4 | Phone message with emojis |
| 55% | TOMORROWISALONG | 15 | With 69 Across, Bob Dylan song about the future |
| 52% | SEENO | 5 | With 13 Across, monkey message |
| 49% | SKIP | 4 | With 69-Across, split |
| 48% | DIES | 4 | With 69-Across, Requiem hymn |
| 48% | TEENY | 5 | With 69-Across, really small |
| 48% | HEX | 3 | With 69-Across, metal fastener |
| 48% | UPPERLEFTTO | 11 | With 60 Across, the message's slanted place |
| 47% | FRENCH | 6 | With 69-Across, burger go-with |
| 47% | SAMMY | 5 | With 69-Across, 1930s-'50s bandleader |
| 47% | BIG | 3 | With 69-Across, V.I.P. |
| 47% | HOME | 4 | With 69-Across, advantage in sports |
| 47% | PAGEANTS | 8 | Events with 69-Acrosses |
| 47% | BEING | 5 | With 69-Across, song from 20-Across |
| 47% | HALF | 4 | With 69-Across, ship of 55-Across |
| 46% | STEVEN | 6 | With 69-Across, asker of the question |
| 46% | ADAM | 4 | With 69-Across, caped crusader player of 1966 |
| 45% | IMNOTHERE | 9 | Message whispered to someone on the phone with an obnoxious caller |
| 45% | SPICE | 5 | With 69-Across, locales for this puzzle's theme |
| 45% | PROTEAN | 7 | With 69-Across, Longtime Penn State head coach * Versatile |
| 44% | TOP | 3 | With 69-Across, a film with 27- and 64-Across |
| 44% | POORMARK | 8 | With 69-Across and 69-Down, what these answers show |
| 44% | PETE | 4 | With 69-Across, baseball great with 2,165 career runs |
| 43% | INSERT | 6 | With 56-Across, arcade-machine message |
| 43% | MONO | 4 | With 69-Across, what each set of letters in parentheses represents |
| 42% | GETTINGONESDUCKS | 16 | With 69-Across, organizational process implied by eight answers in this puzzle |
| 41% | FAX | 3 | Transmit a quick message through a phone line, for short (rhymes with wax) |
| 41% | TEXT | 4 | Phone message |