| 100% | OLIVERHARDY | 11 | Comedian first appearing with 25 Across in 1921 |
| 84% | STANLAUREL | 10 | Comedian first appearing with 52 Across in 1921 |
| 42% | LINA | 4 | With 25 Across, Federal Trade Commission chair appointed in June 2021 |
| 37% | EMO | 3 | Comedian Philips appearing with "Weird Al" Yankovic in "The Ridiculously Self-Indulgent, Ill-Advised Vanity Tour" |
| 36% | THOMAS | 6 | With 65 Across, the first to see his name ''up in lights'' (1881) |
| 36% | POCONORACEWAY | 13 | Superspeedway in Pennsylvania with a "solar farm" across 25 acres: 2 wds. |
| 35% | BLUE | 4 | With 25 Across, large game fish |
| 35% | SEAN | 4 | With 25 Across, subject of quote |
| 35% | IRAN | 4 | Caspian sharer with 25 Across |
| 35% | JULIUS | 6 | With 25-Across, speaker of the quote hidden in 20-, 37- and 53-Across |
| 34% | YELLOW | 6 | With 25 Across, caution, on a soccer pitch |
| 34% | SHE | 3 | Personal pronoun often paired with 25 Across |
| 34% | THOR | 4 | Superhero with a hammer who appeared in the first issue of the comic book "The Avengers" |
| 34% | NATHAN | 6 | With 25-Across, special prosecutor who resigned from the Trump election subversion case in March 2024 |
| 33% | KITTYHAWK | 9 | With 41-Across, location of the first successful 25-Across |
| 33% | NEWYORK | 7 | With 20-Across, where the first-ever crossword puzzle appeared |
| 33% | UPSIDEDOWN | 10 | How 25-Across appeared at a 6-Down in 1961 |
| 33% | GREEK | 5 | With 67-Across, what appears in each set of circles |
| 33% | DIET | 4 | With 25 Across, canonical brand for a 10 Down/11 Across |
| 33% | HELEN | 5 | With 25 Across, author whose best-known character is named Jones |
| 33% | HENRY | 5 | With 25 Across, author whose best-known character is named Jones |
| 32% | BUD | 3 | Dog included in the first automobile trip across the US, with Horatio Nelson Jackson and Sewall K. Crocker |
| 32% | AMERICA | 7 | Captain __ first appeared in 1941 |
| 32% | KENDALLJENNER | 13 | World's highest-paid model as of 2017, who first appeared in a reality TV show with her famous half-sisters: 2 wds. |
| 32% | ALTHEA | 6 | With 32-Across, tennis legend who appeared on "Forever" stamps in 2013 |
| 32% | TOTEM | 5 | With 25-Down, sights in some Indian villages |
| 32% | BETTYBOOP | 9 | Cartoon flapper first appearing in 1930 |
| 32% | STATE | 5 | With 70-Across, what the first word of each long Across answer is vis-à-vis the bracketed place in its clue |
| 32% | STEVE | 5 | With 66-Across, first in a series of five TV personalities (1954-57) |
| 32% | MICHELLE | 8 | With 39-Across, "Hairspray" actress who plays Betty Ford in "The First Lady" |