| 100% | MONEY | 5 | (5/10) ...such as his lonely childhood and his fiance Belle who ended their relationship as he loved ___ more than her. |
| 24% | DOUBLEPARKING | 13 | Lend me your ear! And I will speak of the clumsy monarch who needed twice as many golf strokes as his opponents, for he was the … |
| 23% | INC | 3 | Abbreviation at the end of many company names, such as Tesla and Zynga |
| 23% | TENGALLONHATS | 13 | They hold less than 10% as much as their name suggests |
| 23% | HOMEMADEMEAL | 12 | Sequence of dishes such as 18-, 25-, 38-, and 55-Across, in more ways than one |
| 22% | STEVIE | 6 | ___ Wonder, "Isn't She Lovely" musician who plays multiple instruments such as the piano and drums |
| 22% | MOTHER | 6 | Loving maternal figure who might be called in different ways such as 33a, 49a, 59a, 7d, 29d, and 43d |
| 22% | ROBINSON | 8 | Mrs. __, is loved more than she will know |
| 22% | AURILIA | 7 | Ballplayer Rich who started and ended his 15-year career as a Giant |
| 21% | YOULOSE | 7 | Calvin Coolidge's reputed reply to a woman who bet she could get more than two words out of him |
| 21% | ORSINO | 6 | He loves Viola and her alter ego in Twelfth Night |
| 20% | SOSA | 4 | Guy who started and ended as a Ranger but spent most of the time as a Cub |
| 20% | FRIDERIC | 8 | George ___ Handel, composer from the Baroque era who was born in the same year as 31a and has composed more than 40 operas |
| 20% | PRIME | 5 | Numbers such as 3, 5, 7, and 13 |
| 20% | UNDYING | 7 | Emotion, such as love, without end |
| 20% | DIOR | 4 | Who said "A woman's perfume tells more about her than her handwriting" |
| 20% | NOONE | 5 | Who "ever loved you more than I," in song |
| 20% | DAVID | 5 | Director Lynch about whom Kyle MacLachlan wrote, "I will miss him more than the limits of my language can tell and my heart can bear" |
| 19% | STACEYABRAMS | 12 | Voting rights activist who writes legal thrillers such as 14-Across under her own name and romance novels under the pen name Selena Montgomery (2 wds.) |
| 19% | SCOOBY | 6 | Canine loves snacks as much as his scruffy friend |
| 19% | ODDS | 4 | Numbers such as 1, 3, 5, 7, and 9 |
| 19% | EER | 3 | "I love her ten times more than ___ I did": Shak. |
| 19% | EER | 3 | "I love her ten times more than ___ I did": Petruchio |
| 19% | HINTS | 5 | Tips such as "some squares have more than one letter" |
| 19% | PRIMATOLOGIST | 13 | Person such as 39-Across who studies apes and monkeys |
| 19% | TONIMORRISON | 12 | Author who died in 2019 and was, as David Remnick wrote, “unsparing in her depiction of people who would use language to evil ends” |
| 19% | REBA | 4 | She and Dolly recorded a duet of "Does He Love You" in 2021 |
| 19% | GHOST | 5 | Abruptly end a relationship with by ignoring texts, calls and such |
| 19% | MASHUP | 6 | Blend of two or more things, such as Christmas and Hanukkah |
| 18% | JOHNMUIR | 8 | Who said "In every walk with Nature, one receives far more than he seeks" |