| 100% | KNOT | 4 | "I'm a frayed ___" (punch line of a classic joke) |
| 59% | SETUP | 5 | Part of a joke before the punch line |
| 59% | SETUP | 5 | Part of a joke preceding the punch line |
| 58% | SETUP | 5 | Part of a joke that leads to the punch line |
| 57% | EVER | 4 | "If you're ___ in a jam, here I am" (first line of the classic song "Friendship") |
| 53% | IAMSAM | 6 | First line of a classic Dr. Seuss book |
| 52% | LINE | 4 | Punch ___ (end of a joke) |
| 52% | OREO | 4 | Classic Blizzard flavor, though I'm a big fan of Snickers at the moment |
| 52% | IAMSAM | 6 | First line of a Seuss classic |
| 52% | ITSME | 5 | Part of a classic breakup line |
| 51% | WHOSTHERE | 9 | Second line of a child's joke |
| 50% | LINE | 4 | Punch ___ (final phrase of a joke) |
| 50% | JOKEBOOK | 8 | A written collection of punch lines |
| 50% | WHOSTHERE | 9 | Second line of a knock-knock joke: 2 wds. |
| 48% | DARKLING | 8 | Line of Keats' Ode to a Nightingale "__ I listen" |
| 48% | NOCHARGE | 8 | Punch line to a joke that starts with a neutron walking into a bar |
| 47% | AGIRL | 5 | "I'm also just ___, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her" (classic rom-com line) |
| 46% | PUN | 3 | What a knock-knock joke's punch line usually is |
| 46% | HELLO | 5 | What "you had me at," in a classic movie line |
| 45% | YES | 3 | "___ oui sí ja" (punch line to a quadrilingual joke) |
| 45% | WEAREFAMILY | 11 | Sister Sledge classic whose second line is "I got all my sisters with me," and a hint to the starts of 17-, 24-, 39-, and 49-Across |
| 44% | LESPAUL | 7 | Electric-guitar pioneer who lent his name to a classic line of Gibsons |
| 44% | DUCK | 4 | I'm a waterfowl who sleeps in a line with one eye open |
| 44% | CASABLANCA | 10 | 1942 film that ends with the line “Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship” |
| 44% | GET | 3 | "I'm a Celebrity...___ Me Out of Here!" |
| 44% | CLEA | 4 | DuVall of "But I'm A Cheerleader" |
| 43% | UPDOG | 5 | "What's ___?" (line from the victim of a classic prank) |
| 43% | CREASE | 6 | Line of a fold |
| 43% | BEE | 3 | Line of a sort |
| 43% | LYRIC | 5 | Line of a song |