| 100% | SMALLMINDED | 11 | Petty creature of the Rockies, with 56-Across? |
| 52% | VAMPIRE | 7 | Creature who might disagree with the saying at the ends of 17-, 22-, 48- and 56-Across |
| 46% | LATINA | 6 | Not one of the 56 Across |
| 44% | IRON | 4 | With 21 Across, one of the Avengers |
| 44% | GEORGE | 6 | With 39 Across, coiner of the slogan |
| 44% | LEONARD | 7 | With 18 Across, recipient of the comment |
| 44% | ALLFORONE | 9 | With 24 Across, slogan of The Three Musketeers |
| 44% | OTIS | 4 | With 72 Across, the King of Elevator Music? |
| 44% | EVA | 3 | With 56-Across, Saint of Hollywood |
| 43% | GIRAFFE | 7 | Creature with distinctive features seen at the ends of 17- and 53-Across and 11- and 24-Down |
| 43% | FELT | 4 | With 56-Across, features of some pens |
| 43% | LINE | 4 | With 14 Across, payoff at the end of a joke |
| 43% | THEFIRSTTIMEEVERI | 17 | With 127 Across, the best-selling hat song of 1972? |
| 43% | TIMEHEALS | 9 | With 12 Across, maxim stressing the natural resolution of problems |
| 42% | CENTAUR | 7 | Horse creature with the torso of a man |
| 42% | STAR | 4 | With 56-Down, series that's the source of the movie line in the circles |
| 42% | VOLODYMYR | 9 | With 27 Across, Time's Person of the Year of 2022 |
| 42% | PLATYPUS | 8 | Creature with a duck bill and the body of a mammal |
| 42% | GEORGE | 6 | With 24 Across, loser of the first really serious pie fight? |
| 42% | NINETEEN | 8 | With 56-Across, The New Yorker’s founding year |
| 42% | THE | 3 | With 56-Across, last words of a fairy tale |
| 42% | LAMARSEILLAISE | 14 | Song of the 56-Across |
| 42% | SIB | 3 | Part of the 56-Across |
| 41% | DARK | 4 | With 12 Across, period that followed the fall of the Roman Empire |
| 41% | JOE | 3 | With 18 Across, 46th male President of the United States of America |
| 41% | RUDYARD | 7 | With 42 Across, British author of ''How the Camel Got His Hump'' |
| 41% | MARYJANE | 8 | Flat style of shoe with a strap across the instep |
| 41% | OCTOPI | 6 | Ocean creatures with nearly triple the neural wiring of humans |
| 41% | LETHE | 5 | One of the five rivers of 56-Across |
| 41% | FORTUNE | 7 | With 41- and 48-Across, what 56-Across declared while approaching the eruption of 20-Across |