| 100% | ALGIERS | 7 | Setting of "Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion" |
| 51% | WHO | 3 | Name of the first baseman in Abbott and Costello's baseball routine |
| 48% | RIORITA | 7 | 1942 Abbott and Costello film set at a resort on the U.S.-Mexico border |
| 46% | HIDDENGEM | 9 | Diamond in the rough, and what can be found in each set of circles |
| 45% | COCO | 4 | Pixar film set in Mexico and the Land of the Dead |
| 45% | LOU | 3 | Costello of Abbott and Costello |
| 45% | COMICBOOK | 9 | Setting for each of the places in 15-, 21-, and 41-Across: 2 wds. |
| 44% | COCO | 4 | 2017 Pixar film set in Mexico and the Land of the Dead |
| 44% | ZOOTSUIT | 8 | Set of outer clothes popular in the 1940s consisting of a long coat with wide padded shoulders and pegged trousers |
| 44% | COEDS | 5 | Abbott and Costello's "Here Come the ___" |
| 42% | COHORT | 6 | One of the ten units of between 300 and 600 men in an ancient Roman Legion |
| 42% | COHORT | 6 | One of the 10 units of between 300 and 600 men in an ancient Roman Legion |
| 42% | COCO | 4 | Pixar's 2017 3D computer-animated film set in Mexico and the Land of the Dead |
| 42% | FOG | 3 | "House of Sand and ___" (Ben Kingsley film set in the San Francisco Bay Area) |
| 41% | PINK | 4 | In the ___ of health (hale and hearty) |
| 41% | ALPS | 4 | Setting of the Lauberhorn and Hahnenkamm ski races |
| 41% | FOREST | 6 | Setting of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" |
| 41% | IRAN | 4 | Setting of the memoir "Reading Lolita in Tehran" |
| 41% | TOLEDO | 6 | Setting of the Palacio de Galiana in Spain |
| 41% | OARS | 4 | Set of 50 on the Argo, in myth |
| 41% | FLEET | 5 | Set of ships sailing in the same direction |
| 41% | LEX | 3 | Luthor in the Legion of Doom |
| 40% | EVIL | 4 | "Midnight in the Garden of Good and ___" |
| 40% | SECRETARIAT | 11 | American racehorse who in 1973 set the fastest and still-unbeaten time record in all three races of the Triple Crown |
| 40% | MIRIAM | 6 | In the Bible, the older sister of Moses and Aaron |
| 39% | STAR | 4 | Mass of gasses and combustion in the sky |
| 39% | ESAU | 4 | Son of Isaac and Rebecca in the Bible |
| 39% | JUGHEAD | 7 | Friend of Archie and Betty in the comics |
| 39% | BOUVIER | 7 | Surname of Patty and Selma in The Simpsons |
| 39% | SELMA | 5 | Sister of Marge and Patty in The Simpsons |