| 100% | NOMAD | 5 | A wanderer in one direction, a superstar actor in the other |
| 56% | SUMAC | 5 | A poisonous plant in one direction, a French author in the other |
| 49% | PARRY | 5 | Deflect, as a boxer's punch in the other direction |
| 47% | BELLE | 5 | Disney princess locked away in a tower (no, the other one) |
| 45% | EAR | 3 | In one ___ and out the other (how a word may travel through someone's brain--or through this puzzle grid) |
| 45% | TETEBECHE | 9 | In philately, a joined pair of stamps printed with one inverted in relation to the other |
| 44% | TILESETTER | 10 | One spending a long time in the bathroom? |
| 44% | USHER | 5 | One with a leading role in the theater? |
| 44% | SPOONREST | 9 | One with a supporting role in the kitchen? |
| 44% | FIGLEAVES | 9 | Ones doing a decent job in the Bible? |
| 44% | EASTERN | 7 | Resent a move in one direction |
| 44% | JETE | 4 | Ballet step in which a dancer springs from one leg and lands on the other |
| 44% | STILTWALKER | 11 | One with a leg up in the circus business? |
| 44% | TETEBECHE | 9 | In philately, a joined pair of stamps printed with one inverted in relation to the other (4-5) |
| 43% | BRADDOURIF | 10 | Best Actor in a Supporting Role Oscar nominee for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| 43% | BRADDOURIF | 10 | Best Actor in a Supporting Role Oscar-nominee for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| 43% | LEADDETECTIVES | 14 | Ones in charge of a case ... or a literal hint to the eight other longest answers in this puzzle |
| 43% | TELEMARK | 8 | In skiing, a turn in which one ski is placed far forward of the other and turned gradually inwards |
| 43% | DOURIF | 6 | Brad —, Best Actor in a Supporting Role Oscar nominee for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| 43% | NICHOLSON | 9 | Jack —, Best Actor in a Leading Role Oscar winner for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| 43% | EAR | 3 | In one ___ and out the other |
| 43% | ASCENDING | 9 | In the other direction to descending |
| 43% | RYANGOSLING | 11 | Actor who sang "You Always Hurt the One You Love" in a movie: 2 wds. |
| 42% | STEP | 4 | A __ in the right direction |
| 42% | YORK | 4 | City in England with a New one in the US |
| 42% | NIALLHORAN | 10 | One Direction singer who's in his second season as a coach on "The Voice": 2 wds. |
| 42% | ZAG | 3 | Veer back in the other direction |
| 41% | ODE | 3 | Pablo Neruda wrote one "to a large tuna in the market" |
| 41% | ODE | 3 | Pablo Neruda wrote one to a large tuna in the market |