| 100% | ARON | 4 | Middle name of "the King" |
| 100% | ARON | 4 | Middle name of The King |
| 73% | RIHANNA | 7 | Middle name of the singer Robyn Fenty |
| 72% | ALVA | 4 | Middle name of the Wizard of Menlo Park |
| 72% | HARPER | 6 | Middle name of the writer born Nelle Lee |
| 72% | REGAN | 5 | Middle daughter of King Lear in the William Shakespeare play of that name |
| 72% | MONGKUT | 7 | Name of the king in The King and I |
| 72% | STEARNS | 7 | Middle name of the author of "The Waste Land" |
| 71% | ABRAM | 5 | Presidential middle name of the eighteen-eighties |
| 71% | ALVA | 4 | Middle name of the inventor of the electrographic vote recorder |
| 70% | SEUSS | 5 | Middle name of the “Green Eggs and Ham” author Theodor Geisel |
| 70% | YUL | 3 | First name of The King and I actor Brynner |
| 69% | RAMSES | 6 | Valley of the Kings name |
| 69% | DELANO | 6 | Middle name of the longest serving US president mentioned in 6-Across |
| 68% | RICHARD | 7 | Name of the English king known as The Lionheart |
| 68% | ATTLEE | 6 | Middle name of Washington Burpee, the seed company owner |
| 68% | CHARLES | 7 | Name of the only English king to be executed |
| 68% | OSSICLES | 8 | Collective name of the middle ear bones |
| 67% | ARON | 4 | The King's middle name |
| 67% | OVERLOOK | 8 | Name of the hotel in Stephen King's The Shining |
| 67% | STEPHEN | 7 | English name of the first king of Hungary |
| 64% | STEARNS | 7 | Middle name of T S Eliot, author of 1922 poem The Waste Land |
| 64% | PUMBAA | 6 | The name of the warthog in The Lion King |
| 64% | ALVA | 4 | Middle name in the National Inventors Hall of Fame |
| 62% | LEN | 3 | Name in the middle of "middle names" |
| 62% | ASSISTANTEDITOR | 15 | Name in the middle of a masthead |
| 62% | OTIS | 4 | First name of the "King of Soul" |
| 61% | FED | 3 | — Cup, former name of the Billie Jean King Cup, won by Canada in 2023 |
| 61% | PRESLEY | 7 | Last name of Elvis, the King of Rock and Roll |
| 61% | JOEEXOTIC | 9 | Working name of zoo owner known as the Tiger King |