| 100% | NEON | 4 | Gas in the opening line of "On Broadway" |
| 60% | WAS | 3 | Word seen 11 times in the opening line of "A Tale of Two Cities" |
| 55% | CALLMEISHMAEL | 13 | Classic opening line of 15-Across in which the narrator introduces himself: 3 wds. |
| 54% | ROAM | 4 | Last word in the first line of "Home on the Range" |
| 49% | NORMA | 5 | "Goodbye ___ Jean" (opening line of Elton John's "Candle in the Wind") |
| 49% | NORMA | 5 | "Goodbye ___ Jeane" (opening line of Elton John's "Candle in the Wind") |
| 48% | ONACID | 6 | How Lennon wrote the opening lines of "I Am the Walrus" |
| 48% | ANDABOTTLEOFRUM | 15 | Line that follows the opening syllables of 19-, 37-, and 42-Across, in a salty refrain |
| 47% | WELCOMETOMIAMI | 14 | Line immediately after "All night, on the beach till the break of dawn" in a 1997 Will Smith hit |
| 47% | JUNO | 4 | Goddess named in the opening of the "Aeneid" |
| 47% | EAGLE | 5 | Bird in the opening of "The Colbert Report" |
| 47% | ALA | 3 | In the style of, on menus |
| 47% | LUCIA | 5 | Character portrayed by actress Patti LuPone (birthday today) in the 2010 Broadway production of "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown" |
| 47% | NAME | 4 | Info to fill in on the first line of many forms |
| 47% | APES | 4 | Extras in the opening of "2001: A Space Odyssey" |
| 47% | FAR | 3 | Word repeated in the openings of "Star Wars" movies |
| 47% | OZONE | 5 | Gas in a layer of the atmosphere |
| 47% | EYEBROW | 7 | Line of hair on the lower forehead |
| 47% | ALA | 3 | In the style of, on a menu |
| 47% | ALA | 3 | In the style of, on 28 Across |
| 46% | IONCEHADAGIRL | 13 | Start of the opening line of 55-Across |
| 46% | ALA | 3 | In the style of, on menus (2 wds.) |
| 46% | SEATTLE | 7 | City whose skyline is drawn in the opening of 43-Across |
| 45% | FAR | 3 | Word repeated in the openings of all the "Star Wars" movies |
| 45% | ISMAY | 5 | J Bruce —, chairman of the White Star Line shipping company portrayed on screen by Jonathan Hyde in 1997 film Titanic |
| 45% | STARRING | 8 | Word in the opening credits of a TV show |
| 45% | AGO | 3 | Adverb in the first line of the Gettysburg Address |
| 45% | ALA | 3 | In the style of, on a menu: 2 wds. |
| 45% | ALA | 3 | In the manner of, on a menu: 2 wds. |
| 45% | EQUATOR | 7 | Longest line of latitude on the Earth |