| 100% | KNIGHTS | 7 | *With 40-Across, defenders of the Holy Grail |
| 59% | GALAHAD | 7 | Seeker of the Holy Grail |
| 58% | PATTI | 5 | With 40-Across, daughter of the 40th president who wrote "The Long Goodbye" |
| 58% | XMARKS | 6 | With 40-Across, key to the "map" of this puzzle |
| 58% | FISHER | 6 | __ king, a custodian of the Holy Grail |
| 53% | MARGARET | 8 | With 40-Across, author of the 1936 novel "Gone With the Wind," which was made into a Best Picture-winning movie |
| 52% | SOPHIE | 6 | With 40-Across, "Game of Thrones" actress whose family adopted the dog that played her direwolf in the series |
| 52% | IRON | 4 | With 21 Across, one of the Avengers |
| 52% | GEORGE | 6 | With 39 Across, coiner of the slogan |
| 52% | LEONARD | 7 | With 18 Across, recipient of the comment |
| 52% | KCANDTHE | 8 | With 40-Across, group whose "Please Don't Go" was the first "Billboard" #1 hit of the 1980s (3 wds.) |
| 52% | HARRYS | 6 | With 40-Across, US vice president who became president upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1945: 2 wds. |
| 52% | ALLFORONE | 9 | With 24 Across, slogan of The Three Musketeers |
| 50% | CLUE | 4 | Game associated with the starts of 17-, 23-, 32-, 40-, 47- and 54-Across |
| 50% | NCAAWOMENS | 10 | With 40-Across, sport whose annual tournament was won this past Tuesday by the University of Connecticut, for the tenth time: 2 wds. |
| 49% | GEORGE | 6 | With 24 Across, loser of the first really serious pie fight? |
| 49% | OTIS | 4 | With 72 Across, the King of Elevator Music? |
| 49% | BEAUTY | 6 | With 33-Down, where to go for the ends of 16-, 20-, 40-, 56- and 62-Across |
| 49% | MICHAEL | 7 | With 40-Across, "King of Pop" |
| 49% | NEW | 3 | With 40-Across, change of government |
| 49% | BRETTFAVRE | 10 | Retired NFL player (birthday today) who made his name with 40-Across and is considered one of the greatest quarterbacks: 2 wds. |
| 48% | ANG | 3 | With 40-Across, "Life of Pi" director |
| 48% | LINE | 4 | With 14 Across, payoff at the end of a joke |
| 48% | THEFIRSTTIMEEVERI | 17 | With 127 Across, the best-selling hat song of 1972? |
| 48% | TIMEHEALS | 9 | With 12 Across, maxim stressing the natural resolution of problems |
| 48% | GEORGE | 6 | With 40-Across, creator of 1-/56-Across |
| 48% | DALAI | 5 | With 40-Across, spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism |
| 47% | VOLODYMYR | 9 | With 27 Across, Time's Person of the Year of 2022 |
| 47% | SESAME | 6 | With 63-Across, where to find all the characters at the starts of 17-, 24-, 40-, 52- and 66-Across |
| 47% | READING | 7 | With 40-Across, library activity in the Thames Valley? |