| 100% | SCOTSMAN | 8 | Leading Edinburgh newspaper, with "The" |
| 60% | UPONE | 5 | With the narrowest of leads |
| 60% | DAILYPLANET | 11 | Newspaper with the headline "Mystery Hero Saves Falling Space Plane" |
| 60% | WAPO | 4 | Newspaper with the slogan "Democracy Dies in Darkness," in brief |
| 60% | WAPO | 4 | Newspaper with the slogan "Democracy Dies in Darkness," for short |
| 59% | STAR | 4 | One with the lead |
| 58% | RAG | 3 | Newspaper with hardly the highest journalistic standards |
| 58% | STAR | 4 | Actor with the lead role |
| 58% | STAR | 4 | One with the lead role |
| 58% | DAILYMAIL | 9 | British newspaper with the highest paid circulation (as of 2023) |
| 57% | UCLA | 4 | Sch. with the Daily Bruin newspaper |
| 57% | IRAN | 4 | Country with the Tehran Times newspaper |
| 57% | JABBING | 7 | Straight punching with the lead hand |
| 56% | QATAR | 5 | Arabian country with the newspaper The Peninsula |
| 56% | SCARLETT | 8 | Gone with the Wind's lead character |
| 55% | UCLA | 4 | School with the newspaper The Daily Bruin: Abbr. |
| 55% | SHIMBUN | 7 | The Asahi __, Japan's leading newspaper |
| 54% | TOMPETTY | 8 | Lead singer with backing band the Heartbreakers |
| 54% | THENEWYORK | 10 | ___ Times, American newspaper with the second-highest weekday circulation in the country: 3 wds. |
| 54% | THEWALLSTREET | 13 | ___ Journal, American newspaper with the third-highest weekday circulation in the country: 3 wds. |
| 54% | LOSANGELES | 10 | ___ Times, American newspaper with the fourth-highest weekday circulation in the country: 2 wds. |
| 54% | IGGYPOP | 7 | Lead singer with the Stooges |
| 53% | PRESS | 5 | Newspapers, with "the" |
| 53% | ALSOP | 5 | Old political journalist with the newspaper column "Matter of Fact" |
| 53% | ROUGE | 5 | What ancient Romans made with the toxic compound red lead |
| 53% | PRINT | 5 | With 3-Down, newspapers, magazines and the like |
| 52% | BABY | 4 | "Achtung ___," 1991 album by U2 with the lead single "The Fly" |
| 52% | COMPUTER | 8 | "OK ___," 1997 album by Radiohead with the lead single "Paranoid Android" |
| 52% | SPORTSPAGE | 10 | Newspaper part with reports on the Devils and Angels |
| 52% | STEPHAN | 7 | With 32-Across, the lead singer of 14-Across |