| 100% | TRYTO | 5 | Opening words of the Beatles' "We Can Work It Out" |
| 63% | DAYTRIPPER | 10 | Beatles hit on the flip side of "We Can Work It Out" |
| 44% | THINAIR | 7 | The magician made it appear out of ____ (2 words) |
| 43% | CONTEXT | 7 | Words can be taken out of it |
| 42% | THEBEATLES | 10 | Band with six consecutive #1 singles, from "I Feel Fine" to "We Can Work It Out": 2 wds. |
| 42% | HES | 3 | First word of the Beatles' "Nowhere Man" |
| 41% | INBED | 5 | Words that can be added to the end of any fortune cookie, it's said |
| 41% | COMA | 4 | You can be in it and out of it at the same time |
| 41% | TONGUE | 6 | A word you can't remember will be on the tip of it |
| 40% | ISNT | 4 | Opening word of "Send in the Clowns" |
| 40% | IREAD | 5 | First words of the Beatles' "A Day in the Life" |
| 39% | UTTER | 5 | Word meaning blurt out, and when you've blurted it, the same word could be followed by nonsense |
| 39% | CAN | 3 | "We ___ Work It Out" (Beatles song) |
| 39% | SAY | 3 | Second word of the US national anthem |
| 39% | SHIFTS | 6 | Work assignments ... and, preceded by 1-Across, the key to creating the word ladder (and part 8 of it) |
| 38% | ISLE | 4 | "Every summer we can rent a cottage / In the ___ of Wight, if it's not too dear" ("When I'm Sixty-Four" lyrics) |
| 38% | HAS | 3 | Third-to-last word of the "Star Trek" opening speech |
| 38% | ITOUT | 5 | "We Can Work ___," 1965 song by The Beatles which was covered by Stevie Wonder in 1971: 2 wds. |
| 38% | MALCOLM | 7 | Who said "If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary" |
| 38% | HOMERED | 7 | Hit it out of the park |
| 38% | HOMERED | 7 | Knocked it out of the park |
| 37% | ONPAROLE | 8 | Out of the can |
| 37% | ONPAROLE | 8 | Out of the can? |
| 37% | MEMORIES | 8 | First word of the Barbra Streisand song "The Way We Were" |
| 37% | GETSALLAS | 9 | Knocks it out of the ballpark, academically |
| 37% | FORESTHILLS | 11 | *Former Queens home of the US Open |
| 37% | PAYNESTEWART | 12 | 1991 winner of the US Open Championship |
| 37% | WECAN | 5 | Beatles' ''__ Work It Out'' |
| 37% | PASYSTEM | 8 | It gets the word out |
| 37% | DOUBLE | 6 | It can precede the first words of 17-, 28-, 35-, 47- and 61-Across |