| 100% | VLADIMIR | 8 | One of the men waiting in "Waiting for Godot" |
| 87% | ESTRAGON | 8 | One of the ones waiting in "Waiting for Godot" |
| 81% | ESTRAGON | 8 | One of the men waiting for Godot |
| 60% | VLADIMIR | 8 | One waiting in "Waiting for Godot" |
| 60% | ACT | 3 | One of two in "Waiting for Godot" |
| 59% | ELI | 3 | One of the Manning brothers who plays for New York Giants |
| 58% | BUTCHER | 7 | One of the "three men in a tub" |
| 57% | NORA | 4 | One of the married detectives in The Thin Man |
| 56% | SEC | 3 | One of the sixty in a minute, for short |
| 56% | LAHR | 4 | Co-star in the U.S. premiere of "Waiting for Godot," 1956 |
| 55% | SUITOR | 6 | One of many for Penelope in the "Odyssey" |
| 55% | NONET | 5 | Name for one of the 3x3 regions in a Sudoku grid |
| 54% | KIDS | 4 | One of the blanks in the cereal slogan "___ are for ___" |
| 54% | TRIX | 4 | One of the blanks in the cereal slogan "___ are for ___" |
| 54% | DAUMIER | 7 | One of the most important men in modern art, per Baudelaire |
| 54% | MAGUS | 5 | Any one of three wise men in the Bible |
| 53% | TED | 3 | Danson who played one of the three men in "Three Men and a Baby" |
| 53% | ACES | 4 | One of the pairs in a "dead man's hand," in poker |
| 53% | NATIONAL | 8 | What one of the letters in 29-Across stands for |
| 53% | ENERGY | 6 | What one of the letters in E = mc2 stands for |
| 53% | ARIA | 4 | One of two for the devil in ''Faust'' |
| 53% | SPADE | 5 | One of the suits in a deck of cards, also word for shovel |
| 52% | CHEM | 4 | One of the subjects that astronaut Story Musgrave has a degree in, for short |
| 52% | POZZO | 5 | Master of Lucky in 1953 Samuel Beckett stage play Waiting for Godot |
| 52% | ARENA | 5 | Rod Laver ___, one of the venues for the tournament mentioned in 17a |
| 51% | WEST | 4 | One of four regions in the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament |
| 51% | ELF | 3 | Legolas in "The Lord of the Rings," for one |
| 51% | WILL | 4 | I was one of the men in "Men in Black" and I'm also father to two singers |
| 51% | COHORT | 6 | One of the ten units of between 300 and 600 men in an ancient Roman Legion |
| 51% | COHORT | 6 | One of the 10 units of between 300 and 600 men in an ancient Roman Legion |