| 100% | SHH | 3 | "Hey! The show's beginning!" |
| 72% | LET | 3 | "___ the show begin." |
| 72% | LET | 3 | ___ the show begin. |
| 60% | SHH | 3 | "Quiet, the show's starting!" |
| 59% | PTSJKNDVNNWHITE | 15 | The show's partly completed puzzle (category: hosts) |
| 58% | WEA | 3 | "Aren't ___ little late for the show?" ("We will miss the beginning"): 2 wds. |
| 57% | NICKNEWS | 8 | Show hosted by Linda Ellerbee that began airing in the early nineties |
| 57% | OMAREPPS | 8 | "House" actor for the show's entire run |
| 57% | IDLIKETOBUYANA | 14 | Request that will complete the show's puzzle |
| 57% | ENDCREDITS | 10 | They go up after the show’s over |
| 56% | EMPTYHANDS | 10 | What a magician might show at the beginning of a trick |
| 56% | BEINGALIVE | 10 | Song from "Company" that marks the show's climax |
| 55% | BLUEY | 5 | The Heeler family's show |
| 54% | TIMETOHITTHEHAY | 15 | With 43-Across, line spoken by the show's star |
| 54% | AMYSCHNEIDER | 12 | "Jeopardy!" champion with the show's second-longest win streak |
| 54% | QUIZBOWL | 8 | Good practice for the show "It's Academic" |
| 54% | SOWS | 4 | Begins the next season's crop |
| 54% | HOST | 4 | The Late Show's Colbert |
| 54% | POTOFTEA | 8 | Drink quantity that gets smaller if you add an S at the beginning |
| 53% | ASEAT | 5 | "Take ___, the show's about to start!" ("Sit down!"): 2 wds. |
| 53% | RECAP | 5 | Term used to summarize the previous episode at the beginning of a TV show |
| 53% | PRAYER | 6 | The Lord's begins "Our Father in Heaven" |
| 53% | SNL | 3 | The Land Shark's show, for short |
| 53% | XFACTOR | 7 | The __, Simon Cowell's singing talent show |
| 53% | EMMY | 4 | The "E" in show business's "EGOT" |
| 53% | ANT | 3 | The Atom ___ Show (1960's TV cartoon) |
| 53% | SHAUN | 5 | "___ the Sheep" (popular kid's show) |
| 53% | BOB | 3 | "___ the Builder," children's cartoon show |
| 52% | MRED | 4 | His given name was spelled with horseshoes in the show's intro |
| 52% | ENJOY | 5 | "___ the show!" |