| 100% | WHERESTHAT | 10 | With 86-Across, his query after a sudden downpour |
| 39% | ROB | 3 | With 102 Across, alliterative cocktail named after a Scottish outlaw |
| 39% | SON | 3 | Child with a Roman numeral after his name, maybe |
| 38% | AREYOUOK | 8 | Query after a wipeout |
| 38% | AMILATE | 7 | Query after a holdup |
| 38% | DRY | 3 | With 10 Across, what cannot be seen in the house after a tearjerker |
| 36% | WOOWOOWOO | 9 | With 80 Across, what it's like after a meeting of the Curly Fan Club? |
| 36% | MIDAS | 5 | Acronym for an automotive service brand that is named after a mythological Greek king with his golden touch |
| 36% | ISTHERE | 7 | With 18-Across, start of a query |
| 36% | FLASHFLOOD | 10 | Result of a sudden downpour |
| 35% | TRUCE | 5 | Query after a knock-down-drag-out fight |
| 35% | DONTBIGEMPTY | 12 | With 45 Across, a query put to Bob Hope in 1939's The Cat and the Canary |
| 35% | DEADCHEAT | 9 | Poker player in the Old West after being caught with a card up his sleeve? |
| 35% | AHA | 3 | Cry after a sudden sense of clarity |
| 34% | HARRYPOTTER | 11 | Character with a 37-Across on his forehead |
| 34% | REPAIRTOTHE | 11 | With 42-Across, find a relaxed place to sit after dinner |
| 33% | COACH | 5 | With 27-Across, nickname for football's Sanders, after his playing days |
| 33% | AHAMOMENT | 9 | Sudden insight ... with a hint to 17-, 24-, 40- and 50-Across |
| 33% | NICHOLAS | 8 | With 62 Across, Charles Dickens novel about a man trying to support his sister and widowed mother, featuring a Maine college |
| 33% | NOT | 3 | Negating word that, if parsed with a space after the second letter, may help to understand nine Across answers |
| 33% | HOWISITPOSSIBLE | 15 | With 58-Across, a query from George Carlin |
| 33% | STOP | 4 | With 86 Down, a Kwik-E-Mart rival |
| 33% | FERRETED | 8 | Discovered after a search, with "out" |
| 33% | PIPED | 5 | Added after a silence, with "up" |
| 32% | SEIZE | 5 | With 60-Across, take control after a coup |
| 32% | PROPOSAL | 8 | Query with a ring attached |
| 32% | BUT | 3 | With 75 Across, a gas |
| 32% | LIVINGWITH | 10 | With 28-Across, Netflix series about a man and his clone: 2 wds. |
| 31% | SIESTA | 6 | Snooze after a fiesta, perhaps (rhymes with "fiesta") |
| 31% | RUNNINGTOGROUND | 15 | Finding after a long search, stopping with "God!" |