| 100% | SPAR | 4 | 23-Across with a partner |
| 71% | IDYLL | 5 | 23-Across with a pastoral setting |
| 71% | SPAR | 4 | Lightly box with a partner |
| 71% | SPARS | 5 | Exchanges blows with a partner |
| 71% | ENDIT | 5 | Break up with a partner |
| 71% | SPARRED | 7 | Practiced boxing with a partner |
| 71% | SPARRING | 8 | Practicing boxing with a partner |
| 68% | NORTH | 5 | With 23-Across, a guiding light |
| 68% | SLOWDANCE | 9 | Sway with a partner |
| 68% | SPAR | 4 | Box with a partner |
| 67% | BARBARA | 7 | With 23-Across, a 1966 hit song |
| 67% | ENTER | 5 | With 23-Across, sign, as a contract |
| 67% | SHOT | 4 | With 23-Across, discredited, as a theory |
| 67% | SPARS | 5 | Trains with a pugilistic partner |
| 67% | SPAR | 4 | Box with a hired partner |
| 67% | SPAR | 4 | Work with a pugilistic partner |
| 67% | ACTED | 5 | Worked with a scene partner |
| 67% | WIDOW | 5 | One with a posthumous partner |
| 66% | THELEGENDOF | 11 | With 23-Across, story about a noisy snorer? |
| 66% | TAPDANCES | 9 | Really clicks with a partner, say? |
| 66% | SLOWDANCE | 9 | Occasion to move with a partner |
| 66% | SOLITAIRE | 9 | Game never played with a partner |
| 65% | THREELEGGED | 11 | Like some races done with a partner |
| 64% | BENJI | 5 | Fictional 36 Across with a sizable filmography |
| 63% | TAGTEAMED | 9 | Worked closely with a partner on a task |
| 63% | THROWINTHETOWEL | 15 | Call it quits ... with a hint to 17-, 23-, 48- and 56-Across |
| 63% | SOFT | 4 | With 12-Across, announce obliquely, as a new partner via Instagram |
| 63% | ESO | 3 | With 23-Across, cómo alguien podría referirse a Winnie the Pooh? |
| 62% | GEISHA | 6 | Hostess with a 46 Across |
| 62% | REESE | 5 | Witherspoon with a 1 Across |