| 100% | NEW | 3 | With 7-Across, its eve is quickly approaching |
| 55% | SNOWY | 5 | With 7-Across, its white plumes were once prized as hat decorations |
| 54% | WATER | 5 | With 7-Across, it might be the tallest structure in a small town |
| 47% | EARS | 4 | With 37 Across, corn is cooking quickly |
| 46% | JENGA | 5 | With 7-Across, it often falls to pieces |
| 45% | TURNBACK | 8 | With 65 Across, return to the way it was |
| 45% | LATE | 4 | With 7-Across, Stephen Colbert now hosts it |
| 44% | LIVE | 4 | With 7-Across, be in the lap of luxury |
| 44% | FELIX | 5 | With 7-Across, TV character who was famously fastidious |
| 42% | ABBEY | 5 | With 7-Across, Beatles album with a zebra crossing on its cover |
| 42% | APPLE | 5 | With 7-Across, longtime cereal brand with a fruit in its name |
| 42% | GREEN | 5 | With 7-Across, group whose 2016 candidate for president is Jill Stein |
| 41% | DOYOUNEED | 9 | With 43-Across, "What is it?" |
| 41% | GUN | 3 | It may be loaded with 17-across |
| 40% | CLEAN | 5 | With 8-Across, its punch line is unlikely to offend |
| 40% | HEART | 5 | It may be seen with a 37-Across |
| 39% | ALOUD | 5 | It might be confused with "allowed" when said 64-Across |
| 39% | BLOOD | 5 | With 7-Across, your body has produced millions of them while you've been reading this clue |
| 37% | STATE | 5 | With 70-Across, what the first word of each long Across answer is vis-à-vis the bracketed place in its clue |
| 37% | TREE | 4 | With 7-Down, it's seen on some trunks |
| 36% | TOTHEBACK | 9 | With 65 Across, ''Move it!'' |
| 36% | CABINFEVER | 10 | It goes with being snowbound |
| 36% | SPACERACE | 9 | It was launched with Sputnik |
| 36% | CHARLES | 7 | With 41-Across, British novelist whose 200th birthday was celebrated on February 7, 2012 |
| 36% | EDEN | 4 | Adam and Eve were kicked out of it |
| 36% | EDEN | 4 | Adam and Eve were cast out of it |
| 36% | MUENSTER | 8 | Its rind is colored with annatto |
| 36% | ICANT | 5 | It is countered with "You must!" |
| 36% | JESTING | 7 | It is ill __ with edged tools |
| 36% | GEODE | 5 | It may be lined with quartz |