| 100% | ELSOL | 5 | "The sun," in 33-Across |
| 78% | ELSOL | 5 | The sun, in Sonora |
| 78% | ELSOL | 5 | The sun, in Spain |
| 77% | YOLK | 4 | The sun in a "sunny side up" |
| 77% | YOLK | 4 | The sun in a sunny side up |
| 77% | SETS | 4 | The Sun ___ in the West |
| 77% | YOLK | 4 | The sun, in sunnyside up |
| 74% | BASEBALLPLAYER | 14 | ... and 33-Across: "must wear gloves in the field" |
| 74% | ARC | 3 | Move like the sun in the sky |
| 74% | SET | 3 | Sink, as the sun in the sky |
| 74% | RISEN | 5 | Up, like the sun in the morning |
| 73% | RISE | 4 | Go up, like the sun in the morning |
| 73% | KOHOUTEK | 8 | Comet that passed around the Sun in 1973 |
| 73% | SOL | 3 | Personification of the sun, in myth |
| 73% | SETS | 4 | "The sun ___ in the West" |
| 73% | SETS | 4 | "The sun ___ in the west." |
| 72% | JOHNMALKOVICH | 13 | "Empire of the Sun" actor who plays Lucien Laurin, the trainer of 33-Across, in a 2010 film (2 wds.) |
| 72% | URANUS | 6 | Seventh planet from the sun in our Solar System |
| 71% | YEAR | 4 | One round around the sun, in time |
| 71% | LIBRA | 5 | Balance in the 39 Across |
| 71% | BRYCE | 5 | With 33-Across, Alabama quarterback who won the Heisman Trophy in 2021 |
| 71% | PHYLICIARASHAD | 14 | "A Raisin in the Sun" Tony-winning actress who plays Grandmother Journey in 33-Across (2 wds.) |
| 71% | URIEL | 5 | Regent of the Sun in John Milton poem Paradise Lost |
| 71% | ICARUS | 6 | He flew too close to the sun in Greek mythology |
| 70% | WNBA | 4 | The Sun and Mercury are in it: Abbr. |
| 70% | RISES | 5 | "The sun ___ in the east" (upward movement) |
| 70% | SETS | 4 | "The sun ___ in the west" (goes down) |
| 70% | LOUISCINQ | 9 | The king has drowned, in 33-Across? |
| 70% | LEO | 3 | What the sun enters in August |
| 70% | SKYLIGHT | 8 | It lets the sun shine in |