| 89% | TICKET | 6 | "Golden" pass to Willy Wonka's chocolate factory, in fiction |
| 37% | OOMPA | 5 | ___-Loompa, Willy Wonka Chocolate Factory employee |
| 36% | VAT | 3 | Large tub at the Willy Wonka Chocolate Factory, e.g. |
| 35% | SALLYHAWKINS | 12 | "The Shape of Water" actress who plays Willy Wonka's mother in "Wonka": 2 wds. |
| 34% | GENE | 4 | Actor Wilder of "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory" |
| 34% | GENE | 4 | "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory" actor ___ Wilder |
| 32% | PURE | 4 | "___ Imagination" (song from "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory") |
| 31% | ENRY | 4 | Eliza's professor in "My Fair Lady," to Eliza |
| 31% | ICE | 3 | What Elsa's touch would convert water to, in "Frozen" |
| 31% | MRSUN | 5 | Character asked to "shine down," in a children's song |
| 30% | NERO | 4 | Archie's boss, in detective fiction |
| 30% | NOTES | 5 | They're meant to be taken in class, but not passed |
| 30% | MRC | 3 | Richie's father in "Happy Days," to Fonzie: 2 wds. |
| 30% | ALIEN | 5 | Zaphod Beeblebrox in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," for one |
| 30% | WONKA | 5 | Upcoming movie in which Timothée Chalamet, as Willy, says, "I'm making chocolate, of course!" |
| 30% | OOMPA | 5 | "___-Loompa doompadee-doo" (lyric from "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory") |
| 29% | OOMPA | 5 | First "word" of a "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory" song |
| 29% | ONELANE | 7 | Difficult to pass on, in a way |
| 29% | LETSOFFEASY | 11 | Gives a pass to, in a way |
| 29% | ROCINANTE | 9 | Don's ride, in fiction? |
| 29% | UNKNOWN | 7 | The ___ (character described as an evil chocolate maker living in the walls, in "Willy's Chocolate Experience") |
| 29% | OOMPA | 5 | ___ Loompa, Willy Wonka factory worker |
| 29% | TIMOTHEE | 8 | With 33-Across, "Dune" actor who plays young Willy Wonka in "Wonka" |
| 29% | INT | 3 | QB's pass to a CB, say |
| 29% | ATE | 3 | Gave in to one's peckishness, say |
| 29% | AFRO | 4 | Samuel L. Jackson's hairstyle in "Pulp Fiction" |
| 28% | OBO | 3 | Letters that mean "But if you want to undercut my price, that's fine," in ads |
| 28% | IAM | 3 | Possible answer to "Who's in?" |
| 28% | NIMBY | 5 | Opposition to developments in one's area, colloquially |
| 28% | MARTY | 5 | ___ McFly, Michael J. Fox's character in "Back to the Future" |