| 100% | ONOUR | 5 | "We are ___ way" (in course of a journey): 2 wds. |
| 68% | LAYSOVER | 8 | Stops for a while in the course of a journey: 2 wds. |
| 65% | ONTHEWAY | 8 | In the course of a journey (3 wds) |
| 60% | OHNO | 4 | "___! We are in serious trouble now." (cry of dismay): 2 wds. |
| 57% | FINALPLAN | 9 | A completed course of action to be put into motion: 2 wds. |
| 53% | IWON | 4 | "Victory is mine!" in a way: 2 wds. |
| 51% | MRKITE | 6 | Subject of a benefit, in a Beatles song: 2 wds. |
| 51% | BLUESTATE | 9 | Democratic-leaning region of a US election map: 2 wds. |
| 50% | IDO | 3 | Words said in front of a priest: 2 wds. |
| 50% | IDO | 3 | Promise made in front of a judge: 2 wds. |
| 50% | IDO | 3 | Promise that may be made in front of a justice of the peace (2 wds.) |
| 50% | ROUTE | 5 | Course of a journey |
| 50% | DEFENSIVELINE | 13 | Part of a football team featured in this puzzle: 2 wds. |
| 50% | BILLIEEILISH | 12 | Singer who released "Birds of a Feather" in 2024: 2 wds. |
| 49% | DATEUP | 6 | Be out of one's league, in a way |
| 49% | ROBERTREDFORD | 13 | "The Way We Were" actor who played Johnny Hooker in "The Sting" (2 wds.) |
| 49% | DONTTELL | 8 | Last half of a former US military policy involving gays: 2 wds. |
| 49% | EILEENCOLLINS | 13 | First female commander of a space shuttle, Columbia in 1999: 2 wds. |
| 49% | ABE | 3 | Nickname of a US president who was born in a log cabin |
| 49% | OFSORTS | 7 | In a way: 2 wds. |
| 49% | KINDOF | 6 | In a way: 2 wds. |
| 48% | TOUCHDOWNPASS | 13 | One of a record 50 thrown by 15-Across in 2007: 2 wds. |
| 48% | STEPHENIEMEYER | 14 | "Twilight" author and winner of a National Merit Scholarship in 1992: 2 wds. |
| 48% | POUNDS | 6 | What there are 2,000 of in a ton |
| 48% | PGA | 3 | Org. in which membership is a matter of course? |
| 48% | OBIT | 4 | Bio, in a way, is aptly part of it |
| 48% | ASON | 4 | "I'll be ___ of a gun!": 2 wds. |
| 48% | ODORFREE | 8 | Incapable of being detected, in a way |
| 48% | LISASIMPSON | 11 | Animated girl who was in the finals of a crossword puzzle tournament: 2 wds. |
| 48% | NEWTGINGRICH | 12 | Former Speaker of the House who was raised in a military family: 2 wds. |