| 100% | TIE | 3 | 50-50, in a ballgame |
| 68% | SPEEDS | 6 | Does 50 in a school zone, say |
| 68% | SPEED | 5 | Go 50 in a school zone, say |
| 68% | SPED | 4 | Drove 50 in a 35 zone, say |
| 67% | LITRES | 6 | There are 50 in a keg of Newcastle |
| 65% | TIE | 3 | 50-50 score in a football match, say |
| 64% | SPEED | 5 | Go 50 in a 30-m.p.h. zone, e.g. |
| 64% | INNINGS | 7 | The periods in a ballgame when each side bats |
| 64% | JAPANESEIMPORTS | 15 | 20-, 25-, 45- and 50-Across, in a way |
| 63% | TLC | 3 | Attention in a 50-Down |
| 63% | ISLE | 4 | Dot in a 50-Down |
| 63% | ARIA | 4 | Solo in a 50-Across |
| 63% | NOONE | 5 | Who has won all 50 states in a U.S. presidential election? |
| 62% | SPF | 3 | 50 is a very high one, in brief |
| 62% | QUIZMASTER | 10 | Figure in a 50's scandal |
| 62% | RAN | 3 | Competed in a 50-yard dash |
| 62% | SPED | 4 | Went 60 in a 50, say |
| 62% | RUN | 3 | Compete in a 50-yard dash |
| 62% | ALLI | 4 | 50-Across character who gambled her scholarship in a poker game |
| 59% | HALF | 4 | What each party gets in a 50-50 split |
| 58% | JULIANNEMOORE | 13 | "Still Alice" Oscar winner who plays 50-Across in a 2020 biopic (2 wds.) |
| 57% | GET | 3 | With 50-Across, prepare for sex with a new partner, in a way |
| 57% | URN | 3 | Fancy vase, like the Grecian one in a famous 50-Down |
| 55% | TIMOTHYHUTTON | 13 | "Ordinary People" Oscar winner who plays the father of 50-Across in a 2020 biopic (2 wds.) |
| 55% | CIRCLE | 6 | 2015 sci-fi movie where aliens abduct 50 people who awaken in a darkened room |
| 55% | COVERSONGS | 10 | Musical remakes, and what 17-, 26-, 40-, and 50-Across all are, in a way |
| 54% | TIMMY | 5 | Boy with a canine pal, in 50's TV |
| 54% | SCRABBLE | 8 | Game in which scoring a "bingo" wins 50 points |
| 53% | ALA | 3 | Southern state that's first alphabetically in a list of the 50 states: Abbr. |
| 52% | SIGEP | 5 | First college frat to charter a chapter in all 50 states |