| 100% | AMOS | 4 | With 84-Across, Kansas City Royals star of the '70s |
| 46% | SALVADORPEREZ | 13 | Kansas City Royal who has won 4 Silver Slugger awards, the most of any active catcher in the MLB (2 wds.) |
| 43% | NOGALES | 7 | Arizona city across the border from a city of Sonora with the same name |
| 43% | STATE | 5 | With 39 Across and 33 Down, what each syllable of the answer to each starred clue is |
| 42% | KRAFTWERK | 9 | German electronic band of the 70s with Autobahn |
| 41% | TWO | 3 | Number of World Series wins for the Kansas City Royals |
| 41% | FULLCOUNT | 9 | With 61-Across, follower of the five starred clues |
| 40% | HAL | 3 | Kansas City Royals great McRae who won the Silver Slugger Award in 1982 |
| 40% | MARA | 4 | Rooney ___, star of "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" |
| 40% | CATTRALL | 8 | Kim __, star of Sex and the City |
| 40% | BRAD | 4 | With 59-Down, star of the work revealed by the first letters of the Across clues, which hint at this puzzle's theme |
| 40% | RETTON | 6 | Star of the '84 Olympics |
| 40% | GEORGEBRETT | 11 | The Kansas City Royals retired his number 5: 2 wds. |
| 39% | ADEN | 4 | City with the Cisterns of Tawila |
| 39% | GRANADA | 7 | City of Spain with the Alhambra |
| 39% | MTM | 3 | ___ enterprises, sitcom producer of the 70s with a cat in its logo: Abbr. |
| 39% | ADEDICATEDFOLLOWER | 18 | With 84 Across, a 1966 song by the Kinks about Mussolini? |
| 39% | IRON | 4 | With 21 Across, one of the Avengers |
| 39% | GEORGE | 6 | With 39 Across, coiner of the slogan |
| 39% | LEONARD | 7 | With 18 Across, recipient of the comment |
| 39% | PELE | 4 | New York Cosmos star of the '70s |
| 39% | CHRIS | 5 | With 38-Across, "I'm Comin' Over" singer who won the fourth season of "Nashville Star" |
| 39% | MASK | 4 | 1985 movie starring 15-Across as the mother of a teen with craniodiaphyseal dysplasia |
| 38% | REDFORD | 7 | Robert, star of 70s drama All the President's Men |
| 38% | ALLFORONE | 9 | With 24 Across, slogan of The Three Musketeers |
| 38% | OTIS | 4 | With 72 Across, the King of Elevator Music? |
| 38% | TARA | 4 | With 46-Down, star of the Sharknado franchise |
| 38% | SANTA | 5 | With the first parts of 17- and 52-Across and 11- and 25-Down, four California cities |
| 38% | ERIN | 4 | Andrews of "Dancing With the Stars" |
| 38% | EDYTA | 5 | Sliwinska of "Dancing With the Stars" |