| 100% | AMIS | 4 | Author in the 1950s "angry young men" movement |
| 46% | ROMEO | 5 | Young man in the title of a Shakespeare play |
| 45% | LAD | 3 | Informally, a young man, especially in the UK |
| 44% | LAD | 3 | Young man who follows the advice in 43-Down throughout this puzzle |
| 43% | JUROR | 5 | Any of the men in "12 Angry Men" |
| 41% | OWEN | 4 | ___ D. Young (Time's Man of the Year in 1929) |
| 40% | MARTIN | 6 | With 41-Across, "Psycho" actor who played Juror 1 in the 1957 film "12 Angry Men" |
| 40% | RICHMONDWOOLF | 13 | Author in the Bloomsbury Group |
| 40% | MOOCOW | 6 | Kidspeak animal mentioned in the first line of "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" |
| 39% | SALMANRUSHDIE | 13 | Author who won the Man Booker Prize in 1981 for "Midnight's Children": 2 wds. |
| 39% | EDSELS | 6 | Line in the 1950s |
| 39% | HEP | 3 | Cool, in the 1950s |
| 39% | PETESAMPRAS | 11 | Youngest man in tennis's Open Era to win the US Open, at 19 years, 28 days (1990): 2 wds. |
| 39% | MARGARET | 8 | ___ Atwood, author who won the Man Booker Prize in 2000 for "The Blind Assassin" |
| 39% | GREASE | 6 | Musical set in the 1950s |
| 39% | TESTPILOT | 9 | *John Glenn, in the 1950s |
| 39% | EDSEL | 5 | Bomb developed in the 1950s |
| 39% | EDSELS | 6 | Bombs developed in the 1950s |
| 39% | PASSRUSSIA | 10 | NASA objective in the 1950s? |
| 39% | PINKO | 5 | Suspiciously left, in the 1950s |
| 39% | FAD | 3 | Coonskin caps, in the 1950s |
| 39% | PHONO | 5 | Singles player in the 1950s |
| 39% | PERCOLATOR | 10 | Coffeepot popular in the 1950s |
| 39% | YANN | 4 | ___ Martel, author who won the Man Booker Prize in 2002 for "Life of Pi" |
| 38% | JANEGOODALL | 11 | Author of "In the Shadow of Man" |
| 38% | ADLAI | 5 | Ike's rival in the 1950s |
| 38% | FUAD | 4 | King of Egypt in the 1950s |
| 38% | BOOMER | 6 | Person born in the 1950s, informally |
| 38% | MAMIE | 5 | White House name in the 1950s |
| 38% | DOOWOP | 6 | Music genre popular in the 1950s |