| 100% | POSTER | 6 | (1/6) "I never went to a game as a kid- just the TV and my prized life-size ___ on my wall were enough" |
| 32% | AUTOGRAPH | 9 | (4/6) "I got the batter's ___ on it after the game. This day has been a dream and I wish it didn't have to end" |
| 32% | RALPH | 5 | Kid on "The Simpsons" who said, "This is my sandbox. I'm not allowed to go in the deep end" |
| 29% | LIKE | 4 | "___ I ran over its dog," quote said by Norm on "Cheers" as a response to the question "How's life treating you, Norm?" |
| 28% | OSCAR | 5 | (With 13-Across) "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go" |
| 28% | COLINKAEPERNICK | 15 | He said, “To me, this is bigger than football and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way” |
| 28% | HOMERSIMPSON | 12 | TV character who says "It's 1 a.m. Better go home and spend some quality time with the kids" |
| 27% | FREDDY | 6 | Singer Fender with a 1975 hit that went to #1 on both the pop and country charts |
| 26% | BREAKINGBAD | 11 | #3 on Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time (as of 2016) ... and a hint to what the black squares are doing in four rows of this puzzle |
| 26% | EBAY | 4 | Site where I found the Cloak & Dagger board game I had as a kid |
| 26% | PLATH | 5 | Poet who wrote "I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am" |
| 26% | MIND | 4 | "I was going to get a brain transplant, but then I changed my ___!" |
| 26% | CERSEI | 6 | I am Jaime's twin sister and two of my children have sat on the Iron Throne in "Game of Thrones" |
| 26% | JOINTVENTURE | 12 | "My colleagues and I will do some exploratory work on your knee, in a ___," said the rheumatologist |
| 26% | KEY | 3 | 1 and ! are on the same one on a typewriter |
| 26% | MIKEHAMMER | 10 | Private eye in novels by Mickey Spillane, such as I, the Jury and My Gun Is Quick |
| 26% | HERBALPERT | 10 | Only musician to hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 as both a vocalist and an instrumentalist |
| 26% | TEENAGEDREAM | 12 | Song on Olivia Rodrigo's "Guts" with the lyric "When am I gonna stop being wise beyond my years and just start being wise?" (2 wds.) |
| 25% | MILAN | 5 | I'm a city in Italy and my nickname is "Fashion Capital of the World" |
| 25% | HAMMER | 6 | Mike —, private eye in novels by Mickey Spillane, such as I, the Jury and My Gun Is Quick |
| 25% | 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 |
| 25% | HARE | 4 | I'm a rabbit's "Snow" cousin and the cold never bothered me anyway. Who am I? |
| 25% | ELEVEN | 6 | On a scale of 1 to 10, what one amp in "This Is Spinal Tap" goes to |
| 25% | HEREWITHME | 10 | 2019 hit song by 17-Down featuring Chvrches with the lyrics "You're saying the words that I want you to say / There's a pain in my heart and it won't go away" (3 wds.) |
| 25% | GOFISH | 6 | Kids' card game ... and a directive pertaining to the four longest puzzle answers |
| 25% | YOUNG | 5 | The Stingray Nebula has to be considered this, as far a nebulae go |
| 25% | WHALE | 5 | I'm a "Beluga" Arctic mammal and the cold never bothered me anyway. Who am I? |
| 25% | SEAL | 4 | I'm a "Crabeater" Antarctic animal and the cold never bothered me anyway. Who am I? |
| 25% | BEAR | 4 | I'm a large "Polar" animal and the cold never bothered me anyway. Who am I? |
| 25% | OKLAHOMA | 8 | State where 15-Across was raised on a reservation and went to schools for American Indians |