| 100% | CHEE | 4 | "Late Night with Seth Meyers" staff writer Karen who regularly appears in "What Does Karen know?" segments |
| 46% | CHEE | 4 | Comedian and Late Night With Seth Meyers writer Karen |
| 29% | LATE | 4 | "___ Night With Seth Meyers" |
| 28% | CARDSHARPS | 10 | Ones who usually know what to do with their hands |
| 27% | JANECURTIN | 10 | Original "Saturday Night Live" cast member who appeared in "Point-Counterpoint" sketches with 39-Across (2 wds.) |
| 27% | DANAYKROYD | 10 | Original "Saturday Night Live" cast member who appeared in "Point-Counterpoint" sketches with 17-Across (2 wds.) |
| 27% | BURSTOUT | 8 | With 37-Across, lose it ... or what 12 answers in this puzzle appear to do |
| 25% | SLEEPIN | 7 | What many do after a late night |
| 25% | CONANOBRIEN | 11 | Longtime late-night host and former "SNL" writer who returned to host in 2001: 2 wds. |
| 25% | MEYERS | 6 | "Late Night With Seth ___" |
| 25% | LEVAR | 5 | ___ Burton, "Star Trek" actor who appeared on a "Sheldon Cooper Presents: Fun with Flags" segment in "The Big Bang Theory" |
| 25% | GEORGEKAUFMAN | 13 | Writer who said "Satire is what closes Saturday night" |
| 25% | SPLIT | 5 | With 65-Across, chore on a winter to-do list ... and what appears in each set of circles |
| 24% | GREEK | 5 | With 67-Across, what appears in each set of circles |
| 24% | NANDOR | 6 | What We Do in the Shadows vampire known as "the Relentless" |
| 24% | KEVINHART | 9 | Comedian who starred in 2014's "About Last Night" |
| 24% | ANGELABASSETT | 13 | "What's Love Got to Do With It" actress who played Reva in "Boyz n the Hood": 2 wds. |
| 24% | PETERLORRE | 10 | Actor who appeared in nine films with Sydney Greenstreet |
| 24% | MINDYKALING | 11 | "A Wrinkle in Time" actress who plays new writer Molly Patel in "Late Night" (2 wds.) |
| 24% | SETH | 4 | "Late Night With ___ Meyers" |
| 24% | BARACKOBAMA | 11 | President who comedically appeared in a 2007 episode of "Saturday Night Live": 2 wds. |
| 24% | AZARIA | 6 | Hank who refused to appear in “The Problem with Apu” |
| 24% | GABLE | 5 | Actor Clark who appeared in eight films with Joan Crawford |
| 23% | BATISTE | 7 | Musician Jon ___, who appears on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" |
| 23% | GNOME | 5 | Garden figure with a pointy hat who appears in Travelocity ads |
| 23% | DOM | 3 | Comic actor DeLuise who appeared in seven movies with Burt Reynolds |
| 23% | OWEN | 4 | Actor Wilson who has appeared with Ben Stiller in 12 films |
| 23% | JAMESWOODS | 10 | "Shark" and "Ghosts of Mississippi" actor who regularly appears in the WSOP and finished in seventh place in 2015: Abbr. |
| 23% | FINISHWITHATWIST | 16 | What the best mystery writers know how to do? |
| 23% | MASSACRES | 9 | What the guy in Texas with the chainsaw does |