| 100% | MAEWEST | 7 | Actress and writer whose autobiography is titled “Goodness Had Nothing to Do with It” |
| 50% | MAE | 3 | West with the autobiography "Goodness Had Nothing to Do With It" |
| 50% | MAEWEST | 7 | "Goodness Had Nothing to Do With It" autobiographer |
| 48% | MAE | 3 | West who wrote "Goodness Had Nothing to Do With It" |
| 45% | WASNTME | 7 | "I had nothing to do with it" |
| 45% | WASNTME | 7 | "Hey, I had nothing to do with it" |
| 41% | DONTLOOKATME | 12 | “I had nothing to do with it!” . . . or how to make sense of twelve of this puzzle’s clues |
| 40% | OAR | 3 | Band whose name has nothing to do with rowing |
| 39% | AVOID | 5 | Have nothing to do with |
| 39% | SHUN | 4 | Have nothing to do with |
| 39% | SNUB | 4 | Have nothing to do with |
| 36% | GINGERROGERS | 12 | Actress who sings the title song with co-star Cornel Wilde in the 1947 film "It Had to Be You" (2 wds.) |
| 36% | HEART | 5 | Organ that has nothing to do with emotion, despite the many expressions |
| 36% | TAKEI | 5 | Actor whose autobiography is titled To the Stars |
| 35% | UNRELATED | 9 | Anagram of 10 Across that appropriately has nothing to do with Toby Fox |
| 35% | AAARATING | 9 | High credit score on Wall Street that has nothing to do with batteries |
| 35% | WAP | 3 | 2020 song whose title is rhymed with bucket and a mop in its lyrics |
| 35% | ALANMOORE | 9 | Comic-book writer whose work has had many film adaptations, despite his claim that it is “designed to be unfilmable” |
| 34% | ITINA | 5 | Book that "What's Love Got to Do With It" was based on |
| 33% | AJANAOMIKING | 12 | "How to Get Away With Murder" actress whose first name is spelled the same forward and backward: 3 wds. |
| 33% | NAUTICAL | 8 | Having to do with sailing and the sea |
| 33% | IVORIES | 7 | “Okay just learned that tickling the ___ is a piano reference and has NOTHING to do with making white ppl laugh” (Vinny Thomas tweet) |
| 33% | IMONTOPOFIT | 11 | “You have nothing to worry about—the work will get done” |
| 33% | ITONYA | 6 | 2017 film whose title character says, "Everyone has their own truth, and life just does whatever the fuck it wants" |
| 32% | WASHONESHANDSOF | 15 | Have nothing more to do with |
| 32% | ITINA | 5 | Autobiography on which the biopic "What's Love Got to Do With It" is based |
| 32% | TIDAL | 5 | Having to do with the rise and fall of the sea |
| 32% | LEAVEMEOUTOFIT | 14 | "I want nothing to do with this!," and how to make the six starred clues match their answers |
| 32% | ANGELABASSETT | 13 | "What's Love Got to Do With It" actress who played Reva in "Boyz n the Hood": 2 wds. |
| 32% | ANGELABASSETT | 13 | "What's Love Got to Do With It" actress who starred in "American Horror Story: Freak Show": 2 wds. |