| 100% | IERE | 4 | "Able was ___ ... " (start of a famous palindrome) (2 wds.) |
| 82% | TOBE | 4 | Start of a famous "Hamlet" soliloquy: 2 wds. |
| 75% | MADAM | 5 | Start of a famous palindrome |
| 75% | ABLE | 4 | Start of a famous palindrome |
| 75% | AMAN | 4 | Start of a famous palindrome |
| 68% | ISAID | 5 | Start of a reiteration: 2 wds. |
| 68% | ITSABIRD | 8 | Start of a famous saying for Superman spotters: 3 wds. |
| 68% | DEARSANTA | 9 | Start of a Christmas letter: 2 wds. |
| 67% | IWISH | 5 | Start of a request to a genie: 2 wds. |
| 67% | DEARSANTA | 9 | Start of a child's Christmas letter: 2 wds. |
| 66% | IWANT | 5 | Start of a brat's demand: 2 wds. |
| 66% | WHATIF | 6 | Start of a hypothetical question. "Suppose...": 2 wds |
| 65% | ATALE | 5 | Start of a Dickens title, "___ of Two Cities": 2 wds. |
| 65% | ISEE | 4 | Start of a crystal ball gazer's prediction: 2 wds. |
| 65% | DEARSANTA | 9 | Start of a letter to the North Pole: 2 wds. |
| 65% | ISEE | 4 | Start of a crystal-ball reader's line: 2 wds. |
| 65% | AREACODE | 8 | Three-digit start of a phone number: 2 wds. |
| 64% | HEYSIRI | 7 | Start of a voice command made to an iPhone: 2 wds. |
| 63% | NOWI | 4 | The start of a prayer, "___ lay me down...": 2 wds. |
| 62% | DONOT | 5 | Start of a warning (2 wds.) |
| 61% | POUNDSIGN | 9 | Symbol used at the start of a hashtag: 2 wds. |
| 61% | USEIT | 5 | Start of a personal trainer's motto (2 wds.) |
| 61% | ISEE | 4 | Start of a fortune teller's report (2 wds.) |
| 61% | YOUVEGOT | 8 | Start of a reassuring phrase ... or the start to 20a, 41a, 55a, or 38d: 2 wds. |
| 61% | NOTIT | 5 | What some people shout at the start of a game of tag: 2 wds. |
| 60% | TOBE | 4 | Start of Hamlet's most famous question: 2 wds. |
| 60% | TOBE | 4 | Start of Hamlet's famous soliloquy: 2 wds. |
| 60% | LEFTJAB | 7 | Start of a one-two punch (2 wds.) |
| 60% | NOPAIN | 6 | Start of a classic fitness maxim (2 wds.) |
| 60% | YOHO | 4 | Start of a pirate's refrain (2 wds.) |