| 100% | SLAYERS | 7 | Buffy Summers and Faith Lehane, vis-à-vis vampires |
| 54% | SLAYER | 6 | Buffy Summers, vis-à-vis vampires |
| 46% | SLAIN | 5 | Like a vampire killed by Buffy Summers |
| 38% | BRISKER | 7 | Like fall vis a vis summer |
| 38% | SLAYERS | 7 | Buffy and Faith, for two |
| 35% | SLAYERS | 7 | TV's Buffy and Faith, e.g. |
| 35% | SLAYER | 6 | Buffy was a vampire one |
| 33% | SLAY | 4 | Kill a vampire, like Buffy |
| 33% | IMPALED | 7 | Stabbed by Buffy, as a vampire |
| 33% | SLAYS | 5 | What Buffy does to a vampire |
| 33% | BLACKOFNIGHT | 12 | *Good and bad for a vampire |
| 32% | ASTER | 5 | Daisy-like flower that is a symbol of wisdom and faith |
| 32% | SLAY | 4 | What Buffy would do to a vampire |
| 32% | DHAMPIR | 7 | Offspring of a vampire and a human |
| 31% | DISCO | 5 | I'm a music genre with singers like Donna Summer and Gloria Gaynor |
| 31% | SLAY | 4 | What Buffy would do to a vampire or demon |
| 31% | ARMS | 4 | Navy and Air Force vis-à-vis the military |
| 30% | ORAL | 4 | Roberts, who started out as a traveling faith healer and ending up founding a university |
| 30% | VAMPIRESLAYER | 13 | "Buffy the ___," TV series starring Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffy Summers for which she won a Teen Choice Award: 2 wds. |
| 30% | SALEMSLOT | 9 | Stephen King novel featuring a haunted house and vampires (2 wds.) |
| 30% | ALUMNAE | 7 | Natalie Portman and Rashida Jones, vis-à-vis Harvard |
| 29% | SON | 3 | Luke, vis-a-vis Anakin and Padme |
| 29% | BBQ | 3 | Summer event, briefly ... or a phonetic hint to 19-, 26-, 47- and 53-Across |
| 29% | STAGES | 6 | Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance, vis-à-vis grief |
| 29% | EXES | 4 | Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt, vis-à-vis each other |
| 29% | ROOTEDIN | 8 | Based on, as opinions vis-à-vis faith |
| 29% | ANGEL | 5 | Buffy and ___, star-crossed lovers portrayed by Sarah Gellar and David Boreanaz in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" |
| 29% | SOLUBLE | 7 | Like salt and sugar vis-à-vis water |
| 29% | STEPMOM | 7 | Camilla vis-à-vis William and Harry, informally |
| 28% | SUK | 3 | Josef —, Czech composer of symphony Asrael and tone poem A Summer's Tale |