| 100% | BROTHERSGRIMM | 13 | Publishers of 35-Across, with "the" |
| 71% | FAB | 3 | With the circled squares of 35-Across, subject of this puzzle |
| 68% | WILLIAM | 7 | With 35-Across, author of the classic dystopian novel "Lord of the Flies" |
| 67% | KATEY | 5 | With 35-Across, "Sons of Anarchy" actress who plays the title character in "Rebel" |
| 66% | MAKEASCENE | 10 | Be disruptive, or what you can do with the ends of 17-, 25-, 35- and 51-Across |
| 66% | ANTHONY | 7 | With 35-Across, first pick of the 2013 NBA draft, taken by the Cleveland Cavaliers |
| 66% | WILLY | 5 | With 35-Across, the lead role in Arthur Miller's play "Death of a Salesman" |
| 65% | AARON | 5 | With 35-Across, Yankee right fielder who broke the records of 18-Across and 38-Across |
| 65% | IRON | 4 | With 21 Across, one of the Avengers |
| 65% | GEORGE | 6 | With 39 Across, coiner of the slogan |
| 65% | LEONARD | 7 | With 18 Across, recipient of the comment |
| 64% | HIVE | 4 | With 58-Across, collective consciousness ... or a hint to the ends of 19-, 35- and 52-Across |
| 64% | ALLFORONE | 9 | With 24 Across, slogan of The Three Musketeers |
| 64% | NASTIA | 6 | With 35-Across, 2008 Olympic gold medalist inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 2018 |
| 64% | DONNA | 5 | With 35-Across, Mississippi-born author of "The Goldfinch" |
| 64% | JUSTIN | 6 | With 35-Across, "Yummy" singer who won the Pop Album of the Year Juno in 2011 and 2016 |
| 64% | HARRY | 5 | With 35-Across, longtime White Sox and Cubs sportscaster inducted into the Broadcasting Hall of Fame in 1994 |
| 63% | CALLMEBY | 8 | With 35-Across, subtitle of 15-Across that is also the title of a 2017 romance film: 3 wds. |
| 63% | THESHOEISONTHE | 14 | With 35 Across, "I've turned the tables on you" |
| 63% | IRENE | 5 | With 35-Across, player of Granny on “The Beverly Hillbillies” |
| 63% | LINE | 4 | With 14 Across, payoff at the end of a joke |
| 63% | TIMEHEALS | 9 | With 12 Across, maxim stressing the natural resolution of problems |
| 63% | ERNIE | 5 | With 35-Across, baseball player who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2013 and died 1/23/15 |
| 62% | EYE | 3 | With 65-Across, what the last words of 18-, 35- and 56-Across are to each other |
| 62% | OTIS | 4 | With 72 Across, the King of Elevator Music? |
| 62% | VOLODYMYR | 9 | With 27 Across, Time's Person of the Year of 2022 |
| 62% | GEORGE | 6 | With 24 Across, loser of the first really serious pie fight? |
| 61% | JAYJOHNSON | 10 | Head coach of 35-Across who won league championships with the University of Nevada in 2015 and the University of Arizona in 2021 (2 wds.) |
| 61% | GRAHAM | 6 | With 35-Across, writer whose novel "The End of the Affair" was adapted as a 1999 film of the same name |
| 61% | DARK | 4 | With 12 Across, period that followed the fall of the Roman Empire |