| 100% | MAMMA | 5 | With 93-Across, words of delight |
| 59% | CLEAR | 5 | With 64-Across, words that can precede the starts of 18-, 31-, 38- and 55-Across |
| 57% | PITTER | 6 | With 64-Across, sound of the circled words |
| 57% | NIMBUS | 6 | With 7-Across, sources of the circled words |
| 57% | THERESNOTWO | 11 | With 64-Across, words of certainty ... or a hint to 23-, 40- and 56-Across |
| 57% | DONTGIVEUP | 10 | With 62-Across, words of caution |
| 57% | GOBLIN | 6 | With 27 Across, Oxford's Word of the Year for 2022, defined as self-indulgent behavior |
| 55% | OHMY | 4 | Words of surprise or delight |
| 54% | YES | 3 | Word of agreeing with something |
| 53% | VERB | 4 | Word of action, as with grammar |
| 53% | NOR | 3 | Word of used along with neither |
| 53% | NOR | 3 | Word of exception used with "neither" |
| 53% | MAHALO | 6 | Word of thanks intensified with nui loa |
| 52% | ROLL | 4 | With 44- and 76-Across, way to put legislators on record ... or the start, middle and end of a word ladder |
| 52% | FOOLSRUSHIN | 11 | With 36- and 59-Across, words of Alexander Pope |
| 51% | STATE | 5 | With 70-Across, what the first word of each long Across answer is vis-à-vis the bracketed place in its clue |
| 51% | MAAM | 4 | Word of respect with an apostrophe in the middle |
| 51% | DNA | 3 | With 93-Down, half of a double helix |
| 51% | OHARA | 5 | Second word of ''Gone With the Wind'' |
| 51% | OHARA | 5 | Second word of Gone with the Wind |
| 51% | SILENT | 6 | With 63 Across, source of quote |
| 51% | RACHEL | 6 | With 12 Across, author of quote |
| 51% | BARACK | 6 | With 9 Across, winner of 2008 |
| 51% | IAN | 3 | With 49 Across, speaker of quote |
| 51% | SEAN | 4 | With 25 Across, subject of quote |
| 51% | YOGI | 4 | With 36 Across, source of quote |
| 51% | ABRAHAM | 7 | With 51 Across, source of quote |
| 50% | SKIPPING | 8 | With 59-Across, lakeside activity ... or a hint to the words spelled across the fifth, eighth and 11th rows of the completed grid |
| 50% | VERBOSE | 7 | With an excess of words |
| 50% | EVER | 4 | Word with green of glades |