| 100% | SWAINS | 6 | Lads who come a-courting |
| 56% | ARTHUR | 6 | Lad who drew a sword from a stone |
| 55% | ALONG | 5 | "___ came a spider / Who sat down beside her …" |
| 54% | HER | 3 | "Along came a spider, who sat down beside ___" |
| 54% | LOSER | 5 | One who comes off worse in a contest |
| 54% | HER | 3 | "Along came a spider who sat down beside ___" |
| 54% | HER | 3 | "Along came a spider who sat down beside ___ ..." |
| 54% | LIAR | 4 | One who breaks a court oath |
| 53% | THEBRITISH | 10 | Who "are coming," in a historical declaration |
| 51% | PLINYTHEELDER | 13 | Roman writer who came to a bad end by 20-Across |
| 51% | VANDYKE | 7 | Court painter who gave his name to a beard |
| 50% | DRE | 3 | Dr. who came up with "Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang" in 1992 |
| 49% | GHOSTFACEKILLAH | 15 | Rapper who came to prominence as a member of the Wu-Tang Clan |
| 49% | OVID | 4 | Who wrote "Poetry comes fine-spun from a mind at peace" |
| 49% | ELI | 3 | Who's coming, according to a 1969 Three Dog Night hit |
| 49% | ICELANDER | 9 | A person who comes from a Nordic island country |
| 49% | OXONIAN | 7 | A person who comes from the city of Oxford |
| 48% | SEN | 3 | Politician who votes to approve a Supreme Court justice: Abbr. |
| 48% | TAFT | 4 | US president who was also a Supreme Court Chief Justice |
| 48% | GORSUCH | 7 | Neil who has been a Supreme Court justice since 2017 |
| 48% | BABY | 4 | One who may wear clothes that came from a shower |
| 48% | DEFENDANT | 9 | The one against whom a case is filed in court |
| 47% | PLAINTIFF | 9 | Someone who brings a civil action in court |
| 47% | ALCOTT | 6 | Louisa May ___, novelist who comes from a transcendentalist family who wrote the novel "Little Women" |
| 47% | WILLIAMHOWARDTA | 15 | Who said "Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever" |
| 47% | BIDDYMASON | 10 | Philanthropist who won a court case for her family's freedom in 1856 |
| 47% | ELENAKAGAN | 10 | Supreme Court justice who was formerly a U.S. solicitor general |
| 46% | WOOER | 5 | One who goes a-courting |
| 46% | SUER | 4 | One who goes a-courting? |
| 46% | SWAIN | 5 | One who goes a-courting |