| 100% | ABAS | 4 | Down with, in Dunkirk |
| 63% | SHUT | 4 | Word with in or up or down |
| 61% | UNA | 3 | With 8 Down, a girl in Guadalajara |
| 61% | HAIL | 4 | With 54 Down, desperate passes, in football |
| 60% | BARACK | 6 | With 29 Down, president born in the '60s |
| 60% | SHIRLEY | 7 | With 1 Down, first Black woman in congress |
| 60% | STAND | 5 | With 108 Down, remain in place |
| 59% | MARRIEDUP | 9 | Settled down with someone out of one's league, in slang |
| 58% | ABAS | 4 | "Down with!," in Dijon |
| 58% | SKI | 3 | With 7-Down, hill that people glide down in winter |
| 57% | REIN | 4 | Tone down, with ''in'' |
| 56% | ERODE | 5 | Wear down that woman in East End with poem |
| 55% | PLUMB | 5 | With 111 Down, crazy as a loon, in the Crazy A Saloon |
| 55% | BOWLING | 7 | Game in which you knock down pins with a ball |
| 53% | BEHIND | 6 | With 71-Down, in secret |
| 53% | LAID | 4 | With 54-Down, in reserve |
| 53% | SIDE | 4 | With 111-Down, in cooperation |
| 53% | NANCY | 5 | ___ Downs, character with a goth aesthetic played by Fairuza Balk in "The Craft" |
| 53% | LOLA | 4 | Girl in a Manilow song with "a dress cut down to there" |
| 53% | LOLA | 4 | Woman in a Manilow song with "a dress cut down to there" |
| 52% | VIS | 3 | With 4-Down, in relation to |
| 52% | HUNKERED | 8 | Dug in, with "down" |
| 52% | GEORGESTRAIT | 12 | Country star with the 2005 platinum album "Somewhere Down in Texas": 2 wds. |
| 52% | ELO | 3 | 1970s-'80s band with the hit "Don't Bring Me Down," in brief |
| 52% | SPARE | 5 | Act of knocking down all the pins with two balls in tenpin bowling |
| 52% | LOLA | 4 | Woman in a Barry Manilow song with "a dress cut down to there" |
| 51% | BLAHS | 5 | Down-in-the-dumps feeling, with "the" |
| 51% | TOOTSIEROLL | 11 | With 72-Down, snacks introduced in 1896 |
| 51% | THEMOSTFAMOUS | 13 | With 53-Down, 123-Across, in song |
| 51% | OLE | 3 | With 28-Down, a university in Dixie |