| 100% | MAGNUM | 6 | Nickname of gun toted by Dirty Harry, .44 __ |
| 36% | BESS | 4 | Nickname of Harry Truman's wife |
| 35% | IKE | 3 | Nickname of the president after Harry Truman |
| 35% | PRONGS | 6 | Nickname of James Potter, Harry Potter's dad |
| 35% | IKE | 3 | Nickname of the president between Harry and Jack |
| 32% | DRE | 3 | Nickname of the ad executive played by Anthony Anderson on "Black-ish" |
| 32% | DWADE | 5 | Nickname of the NBA star whose #3 was retired by the Heat |
| 31% | STU | 3 | Nickname formed by three consecutive letters of the alphabet |
| 31% | CLOAK | 5 | ___ of Invisibility (magical item owned by Harry Potter) |
| 31% | SIGN | 4 | "___ of the Times," hit song by Harry Styles |
| 31% | NAVARONE | 8 | Guns of __, ska track by the Skatalites |
| 31% | CLINT | 5 | Eastwood of Dirty Harry movies |
| 31% | SWEETS | 6 | Nickname of trumpeter Harry Edison who spent 13 years with the Count Basie Orchestra |
| 31% | SUDDENIMPACT | 12 | 1983 Dirty Harry movie directed by and starring Clint Eastwood: 2 wds. |
| 31% | BEAR | 4 | — Symphony, nickname of a 1786 work in C major by Joseph Haydn |
| 30% | ALGY | 4 | Nickname of Algernon Montgomery Lacey, flying companion of Biggles, in stories by W E Johns |
| 30% | HOGTOWN | 7 | Toronto goes by the name of this porcine nickname |
| 30% | HAWKEYE | 7 | Member of the 44-Across played by Jeremy Renner |
| 30% | CLINTEASTWOOD | 13 | "Dirty Harry" actor elected mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California (2 wds.) |
| 29% | NEDFLANDERS | 11 | Neighbor of Homer Simpson voiced by Harry Shearer (2 wds.) |
| 29% | ARCH | 4 | Nickname given to Archie by Meghan and Harry |
| 29% | MELC | 4 | Sporty Spice of music, by another nickname |
| 29% | PUDGE | 5 | Nickname shared by the Baseball Hall of Famers Carlton Fisk and Iván Rodríguez |
| 29% | NERF | 4 | A kind of gun made by Hasbro, that shoots spongy balls |
| 28% | ISAWANOTICE | 11 | Start of a quip by 44-Across |
| 28% | PRIDE | 5 | Start of a title by 44-Down |
| 28% | IRONMAN | 7 | Member of the 44-Across played by Robert Downey Jr. (2 wds.) |
| 28% | SPARE | 5 | 2023 book by Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex |
| 27% | BERTIE | 6 | King Edward VII of the UK known by his family as this nickname |
| 27% | TESSMONAGHAN | 12 | Reporter-turned-investigator in a series of novels by 44-Across (2 wds.) |