| 100% | RABBI | 5 | Priest and minister's partner, in classic jokes |
| 71% | RABBI | 5 | Priest and minister's cohort, in jokes |
| 56% | RABBI | 5 | Companion of a priest and a minister in many a joke |
| 46% | OLLIE | 5 | Stan's partner in classic comedies |
| 43% | TONIC | 5 | Gin's partner in a classic drink |
| 43% | MEARA | 5 | Stiller’s partner in love and comedy |
| 43% | HOP | 3 | Hip's partner in music and dance |
| 42% | PESTLE | 6 | Mortar's partner in food prep and chemistry |
| 42% | BOGIE | 5 | Bacall's partner in a classic Hollywood romance, informally |
| 42% | BENING | 6 | 47-Down's partner in life and in "Bugsy" |
| 42% | PERDITA | 7 | Pongo's partner in One Hundred and One Dalmatians |
| 41% | COS | 3 | Sin and Tan's partner in trigonometry |
| 41% | BAR | 3 | Setting for many a joke about a priest, a rabbi and a minister |
| 40% | PETER | 5 | Paul and Mary's partner in folk music |
| 40% | ASTAIRE | 7 | Rogers' partner in classic Hollywood |
| 40% | JOLIE | 5 | 54-Down's partner in life and in "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" |
| 39% | MOE | 3 | Larry and Curly's partner in The Three Stooges |
| 39% | COS | 3 | Sin and tan's partner, in geometry |
| 39% | BACALL | 6 | 11-Down's partner in life and in "To Have and Have Not" |
| 39% | TAYLOR | 6 | 5-Down's partner in life and in "The Taming of the Shrew" |
| 38% | HOBBES | 6 | 33-Across's partner in a comic strip about a boy and his tiger |
| 38% | CALVIN | 6 | 35-Across's partner in a comic strip about a boy and his tiger |
| 38% | VIA | 3 | Amtrak's partner in running the "Maple Leaf" through Albany, Buffalo, and Niagara Falls |
| 38% | SONNYBONO | 9 | Cher's former partner in life and music |
| 38% | BAR | 3 | What a priest, a rabbi, and a minister walk into, in many jokes |
| 37% | SONNY | 5 | Cher's musical partner in the 1960s and 1970s |
| 37% | SONNY | 5 | Cher's music partner in the 1960s and 1970s |
| 37% | WIT | 3 | Wisdom's partner, and a word you'll find hidden in "witch" |
| 36% | CLERGYMEN | 9 | Priests, ministers, and rabbis |
| 36% | INTERRUPTINGCOW | 15 | Classic knock-knock-joke character who rudely appears in 17-, 27-, and 44-Across |