| 100% | ESTRAGON | 8 | One of the ones waiting in "Waiting for Godot" |
| 96% | VLADIMIR | 8 | One of the men waiting in "Waiting for Godot" |
| 77% | ESTRAGON | 8 | One of the men waiting for Godot |
| 70% | VLADIMIR | 8 | One waiting in "Waiting for Godot" |
| 67% | ACT | 3 | One of two in "Waiting for Godot" |
| 62% | SEC | 3 | One of the sixty in a minute, for short |
| 62% | LAHR | 4 | Co-star in the U.S. premiere of "Waiting for Godot," 1956 |
| 62% | SUITOR | 6 | One of many for Penelope in the "Odyssey" |
| 61% | NONET | 5 | Name for one of the 3x3 regions in a Sudoku grid |
| 60% | KIDS | 4 | One of the blanks in the cereal slogan "___ are for ___" |
| 60% | TRIX | 4 | One of the blanks in the cereal slogan "___ are for ___" |
| 59% | NATIONAL | 8 | What one of the letters in 29-Across stands for |
| 59% | ENERGY | 6 | What one of the letters in E = mc2 stands for |
| 59% | ARIA | 4 | One of two for the devil in ''Faust'' |
| 58% | SPADE | 5 | One of the suits in a deck of cards, also word for shovel |
| 58% | MPS | 3 | Ones serving in the House of Commons, for short |
| 58% | CHEM | 4 | One of the subjects that astronaut Story Musgrave has a degree in, for short |
| 58% | POZZO | 5 | Master of Lucky in 1953 Samuel Beckett stage play Waiting for Godot |
| 58% | ARENA | 5 | Rod Laver ___, one of the venues for the tournament mentioned in 17a |
| 57% | ELF | 3 | Legolas in "The Lord of the Rings," for one |
| 56% | SHIP | 4 | The Black Pearl in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" films, for one |
| 56% | HOLE | 4 | Step 3 of making a birdhouse: Cut out a ___ in one of the walls to make place for entry |
| 56% | AET | 3 | One of the abbreviations used for a paraprofessional educator, a foreign national working in a Japanese classroom |
| 56% | HERO | 4 | Peter "Star-Lord" Quill in "Guardians of the Galaxy," for one |
| 55% | BJORN | 5 | One of the Bs in musical supergroup ABBA stands for "Benny" and the other B stands for this |
| 55% | CORVETTE | 8 | One of the most iconic American sports cars from Chevrolet, that has been in production for seven generations |
| 55% | ESTRAGON | 8 | French name for the herb tarragon; character in Samuel Beckett's stage play Waiting for Godot |
| 54% | ARO | 3 | One meaning of the “A” in L.G.B.T.Q.I.A.+, for short |
| 54% | ENGADGET | 8 | One of the highest-paid blogs in the world which is the go-to source for tech news and reviews |
| 54% | CLUB | 4 | The Hospital ___, London, one of the venues from where the "Hope for Haiti Now" charity telethon was broadcasted in 2010 |