| 100% | PROTEAN | 7 | With 69-Across, Longtime Penn State head coach * Versatile |
| 48% | PATERNO | 7 | Longtime Penn State football coach |
| 47% | PATERNO | 7 | Longtime Penn State football coach Joe |
| 38% | STEVE | 5 | With 16-Across, championship-winning head coach of the Golden State Warriors |
| 36% | AID | 3 | Verb associated with 69 Across |
| 36% | PATERNO | 7 | Penn State coach Joe |
| 35% | TOMORROWISALONG | 15 | With 69 Across, Bob Dylan song about the future |
| 33% | THAD | 4 | Longtime Ohio State basketball coach Matta |
| 32% | PATERNO | 7 | Former Penn State football coach |
| 32% | SKIP | 4 | With 69-Across, split |
| 31% | DIES | 4 | With 69-Across, Requiem hymn |
| 31% | TEENY | 5 | With 69-Across, really small |
| 31% | WHERENOMANHAS | 13 | With 59 Across, Captain Kirk's heading? |
| 30% | FRENCH | 6 | With 69-Across, burger go-with |
| 30% | MABELL | 6 | With 69-Across, bygone phone message |
| 30% | SAMMY | 5 | With 69-Across, 1930s-'50s bandleader |
| 30% | BIG | 3 | With 69-Across, V.I.P. |
| 30% | HOME | 4 | With 69-Across, advantage in sports |
| 30% | PAGEANTS | 8 | Events with 69-Acrosses |
| 30% | KINGDOM | 7 | State or government with a royal as its head |
| 30% | BEING | 5 | With 69-Across, song from 20-Across |
| 30% | HALF | 4 | With 69-Across, ship of 55-Across |
| 30% | PATERNO | 7 | Coach Joe of Penn State |
| 30% | STEVEN | 6 | With 69-Across, asker of the question |
| 29% | ADAM | 4 | With 69-Across, caped crusader player of 1966 |
| 29% | YEO | 3 | Mike ___, former NHL head coach with the Minnesota Wild and St. Louis Blues |
| 29% | ERAS | 4 | Periods that might be associated with heads of state |
| 29% | SPICE | 5 | With 69-Across, locales for this puzzle's theme |
| 28% | JOE | 3 | With 18 Across, 46th male President of the United States of America |
| 28% | TOP | 3 | With 69-Across, a film with 27- and 64-Across |