| 100% | ANDANTE | 7 | With 72-Across, Moderate tempo * Done |
| 59% | WHY | 3 | With 72-Across, “Actually, I do!” |
| 56% | LOOSE | 5 | With 72 Across, unfinished business |
| 54% | TENOR | 5 | Band instrument, with 72 Across |
| 53% | BUBBLEBUBBLE | 12 | With 72 Across, reason to call a plumber? |
| 53% | COCA | 4 | With 72 Across, soft drinks sold since 1886 |
| 53% | OTIS | 4 | With 72 Across, the King of Elevator Music? |
| 45% | STAGE | 5 | With 72-Across, vaudevillian 40-Across |
| 45% | SEN | 3 | With 72-Across, former Va. official |
| 45% | HOT | 3 | With 72-Across, post-sledding mugful |
| 44% | SING | 4 | With 72-Across, noted maximum security prison |
| 44% | RENTS | 5 | Does business with 19 Across |
| 43% | MIND | 4 | With 72-Across, motto of a fitness trainer? |
| 43% | RED | 3 | With 72-Across, crisis condition on the Enterprise |
| 43% | AIR | 3 | With 72-Across, roll to one side, e.g. |
| 42% | MAUI | 4 | Island whose name rhymes with 72-Across |
| 42% | TOUCH | 5 | With 28 Across, get offline ... and what 13 and 20 Across do? |
| 42% | END | 3 | With 72-Across, evasive strategy ... and a hint to the last several letters of the four longest Across answers |
| 40% | VERY | 4 | With 20-Across, "Well done!" |
| 40% | WAGE | 4 | With 111-Across, do battle |
| 40% | DAILY | 5 | With 72-Across, the end of 20-, 37-, 44- or 59-Across |
| 40% | WORD | 4 | With 72-Across, what the answers on this puzzle's perimeter form |
| 39% | SPEAKTHEANSWERS | 15 | What to do with 14 Across |
| 39% | WREAK | 5 | With 6-Across, do devastating damage |
| 39% | ANDANTE | 7 | Moderate tempo |
| 39% | UNRELATED | 9 | Anagram of 10 Across that appropriately has nothing to do with Toby Fox |
| 39% | BUTTHEBEST | 10 | When prefixed with 72-Across, what a friend wishes for you |
| 38% | DIG | 3 | With 52-Across, what treasure hunters do |
| 38% | HAS | 3 | With 5-Across, intends to do something |
| 38% | MEMO | 4 | 72 Across communication |