| 100% | MONOGRAMMED | 11 | Embroidered with initials |
| 52% | COASTER | 7 | Ship capsizes in Tresco with initial alacrity |
| 52% | TSE | 3 | Initials associated with 24 Down |
| 51% | ENGRAVED | 8 | Carved with initials, name or date, for example |
| 51% | REI | 3 | US sporting goods store with initials for name |
| 50% | LANG | 4 | Singer with lowercase initials |
| 50% | GRANT | 5 | President with fitting initials |
| 49% | FDR | 3 | Initials of the president afflicted with polio |
| 49% | BLT | 3 | Initials for a sandwich with a crunch |
| 49% | NOCOST | 6 | With no initial charges, as a mortgage |
| 49% | PEN | 3 | Writers' org. with apt initials |
| 49% | EBT | 3 | Payment initials associated with SNAP |
| 49% | UNCLESAM | 8 | National symbol with apt initials |
| 48% | WILEE | 5 | Toon with a middle initial |
| 48% | MLK | 3 | Initials for a famous activist with a "dream" |
| 47% | PEN | 3 | International writers' org. with appropriate initials |
| 46% | BLT | 3 | Initials of a crunchy sandwich with three ingredients inside |
| 46% | RBG | 3 | Initials associated with the quote "When there are nine" |
| 46% | ELLISBELL | 9 | Pseudonym with same initials for Emily Brontë |
| 46% | PEI | 3 | Chinese architect with first initials I.M. |
| 46% | ELMER | 5 | Hunter with a middle initial of J |
| 46% | KMART | 5 | Store name with a big red initial |
| 45% | MONOGRAM | 8 | A motif of initials embroidered on an item |
| 45% | UNCLE | 5 | With 6-Down, US icon whose initials are U.S. |
| 45% | BARRIE | 6 | Peter Pan author with the initials J. M. |
| 45% | THEVOICE | 8 | Hit TV show with the initials "T.V." |
| 44% | THE | 3 | With 4-Across, show that fittingly has the initials T.V. |
| 44% | MLK | 3 | Initials of the reverend with a January holiday in his honor |
| 44% | MLK | 3 | Initials of the man with a January holiday in the US |
| 43% | HAREY | 5 | Initialed coauthor, with his wife Margret, of "Curious George": 3 wds. |