| 100% | OBITS | 5 | Column people are dying to appear in? |
| 52% | ANATOMYLAB | 10 | Class some people are dying to get into? |
| 49% | PROCESS | 7 | People are entitled to due __ in court |
| 46% | PASSAS | 6 | Succeed in appearing to be |
| 46% | PASSEDAS | 8 | Succeeded in appearing to be |
| 45% | TONIMORRISON | 12 | Author who died in 2019 and was, as David Remnick wrote, “unsparing in her depiction of people who would use language to evil ends” |
| 44% | MIMED | 5 | Appeared to be trapped in an invisible box, maybe |
| 44% | GONDOLIER | 9 | Person whose job is to row boats in Venice |
| 44% | USUALSUSPECT | 12 | Person likely to be involved in a particular situation |
| 44% | ABEL | 4 | First person to die in the Bible |
| 44% | OUTRE | 5 | Appearing really eccentric even to people who are already eccentric |
| 44% | MRT | 3 | Actor whose name is appropriate to appear in this puzzle |
| 44% | SUMMONERS | 9 | People who serve notice to appear in court |
| 44% | MIME | 4 | Person who might pretend to be stuck in a box |
| 44% | BLACKJACK | 9 | Activity in which people ask to be hit |
| 44% | PHOTOOPS | 8 | Situations in which people volunteer to be captured? |
| 44% | LEVITATE | 8 | Float, appear to be suspended in mid-air |
| 44% | EXCON | 5 | Person who used to be in jail: Hyph. |
| 43% | BRUTUS | 6 | To Shakespeare he was "high in all the people's hearts" |
| 43% | CLEARTHETABLE | 13 | What people are likely to do in response to 20-, 27- and 44-Across? |
| 42% | ARMAS | 5 | She was Paloma in No Time to Die, Ana de __ |
| 42% | THATCHER | 8 | The only person to be UK PM in the 1980s |
| 42% | ENGEL | 5 | Frankfurter ___, memorial in Germany dedicated to queer people who were persecuted |
| 42% | LIBRARIAN | 9 | Person urges you to be quiet in a place with books |
| 41% | MRINBETWEEN | 11 | Person not to be messed with, in song |
| 41% | GLENN | 5 | Astronaut John who is the oldest person to have flown in space |
| 41% | TOWER | 5 | Column: 'To Be Beholden' in translation |
| 41% | BEARD | 5 | Person pretending to be in a relationship with someone to conceal their true sexual identity |
| 40% | ANDRETTI | 8 | Only person to be named Driver of the Year in three different decades |
| 40% | MADAMSPEAKER | 12 | *Nancy Pelosi was the first person ever to have this title in Congress |