| 100% | SSVAN | 5 | With 70-Across, a whodunit writer |
| 63% | BUM | 3 | With 70-Across, cause of a limp |
| 62% | HEAD | 4 | With 70-Across, call it a night, say |
| 60% | BYEBYE | 6 | With 70-Across, alternative title for "To Kill a Mockingbird"? |
| 58% | ULEES | 5 | With 70-Across, 1997 film in which Peter Fonda plays a beekeeper |
| 57% | LADY | 4 | With 70-Across, nickname for a celebrated performer born on April 25, 1917 |
| 56% | STEGOR | 6 | With 17-Across, reference book for a writer |
| 53% | SEE | 3 | With 70- and 71-Across, agree ... and a phonetic hint to this puzzle's theme |
| 52% | BUT | 3 | With 75 Across, a gas |
| 51% | LIME | 4 | With 56 Across, a summer cooler |
| 51% | KEY | 3 | With 52 Across, a Florida attraction |
| 51% | RON | 3 | With 136 Across, a rum brand |
| 51% | YES | 3 | With 89 Across, a confident assent |
| 51% | ONE | 3 | With 41 Across, a vitamin brand |
| 51% | LIFE | 4 | With 127 Across, a popular candy |
| 51% | DEMONSAREA | 10 | With 105 Across, a Halloween tune? |
| 51% | BLOGGER | 7 | Writer with a website |
| 51% | ARE | 3 | With 62 Across, a question of confirmation |
| 51% | UTAH | 4 | With 20 Across, a Pac-12 school |
| 51% | MISS | 4 | With 19 Across, a certain pageant winner |
| 51% | GUESSWHOSCOMING | 15 | With 28 Across, a Kate Oscar film |
| 50% | CSLEWIS | 7 | Writer with a famous wardrobe |
| 50% | WAGTHE | 6 | With 122 Across, a Hoffman-De Niro film |
| 50% | ELEC | 4 | With 20 Across, a "current" college course: abbr. |
| 49% | STATE | 5 | With 70-Across, what the first word of each long Across answer is vis-à-vis the bracketed place in its clue |
| 49% | BRIDGE | 6 | Structure across a river with a silent letter "d" |
| 49% | PEAR | 4 | With 63 Across, ''partridge in a'' place |
| 49% | CHIA | 4 | With 65 Across, morsel in a smoothie |
| 49% | FOLLOW | 6 | With 41 Across, be a snowbird, say |
| 49% | TALL | 4 | With 17 Across, whopper of a story |