| 100% | PENNYWISE | 9 | Response to 55-Across from Stephen King |
| 68% | SIDESHOWBOB | 11 | Response to 55-Across from "The Simpsons" |
| 68% | HARLEYQUINN | 11 | Response to 55-Across from DC Comics |
| 46% | TACITURN | 8 | Unlikely to 55 Across |
| 46% | LATER | 5 | Kid's response to 20-, 37- and 55-Across |
| 45% | YESSIRE | 7 | Response to a king |
| 44% | PENNYWISE | 9 | Creepy clown from Stephen King movie It |
| 41% | POLO | 4 | Response to "Marco!" from kids splashing in the pool |
| 40% | TOSSIT | 6 | Response to somebody holding up moldy food from the fridge |
| 39% | ROGER | 5 | With 19-Across, home run king from 1961 to 1998 |
| 39% | USURP | 5 | To seize power from a king, say |
| 39% | OFARI | 5 | From King to Obama author Earl ___ Hutchinson |
| 39% | ICK | 3 | Response to a relic from the back of the fridge |
| 38% | GEORGE | 6 | King of England from 1760 to 1820: __ III |
| 38% | STANDBYME | 9 | 1986 coming-of-age film adapted from Stephen King's novella "The Body": 3 wds. |
| 38% | FAHD | 4 | Saudi King from 1982 to 2005 |
| 38% | MAINE | 5 | Home to Stephen King |
| 38% | WHOSTHERE | 9 | Response to 18-Across |
| 38% | IMNOTDONE | 9 | Response to 19-Across |
| 38% | BABE | 4 | With 51-Across, home-run king from 1919 to 1961 (2 wds.) |
| 38% | TERROR | 6 | Emotion Stephen King often tries to drum up in his novels |
| 38% | YESDEAR | 7 | Possible response to "Can you pick up the kids from school?" |
| 38% | OSCARI | 6 | King of Norway and Sweden from 1844 to 1859 |
| 37% | SON | 3 | Owen, to Stephen King |
| 37% | SKYES | 5 | Shaggier alternatives to 55-Acrosses |
| 37% | ARTHUR | 6 | King said to have pulled the sword from the stone |
| 37% | KNOWYOU | 7 | Getting to __, from Rodgers' The King and I |
| 37% | ALFONSO | 7 | __ XIII; king of Spain from 1886 to 1931 |
| 37% | AAH | 3 | Response to a 26-Across, perhaps |
| 37% | LOS | 3 | Alternate name of Stephen King's "Crimson King" from the "Dark Tower" series |