| 100% | TYRO | 4 | Someone new to the job, say (rhymes with "spiro") |
| 83% | TYRO | 4 | Someone new to the job (rhymes with "spiro") |
| 54% | HIRE | 4 | Give the job to someone, say |
| 48% | ABLE | 4 | Up to the job, say |
| 47% | ROOKIE | 6 | Someone new to a job or team |
| 47% | LIKABLE | 7 | Having the qualities of someone you might want to get a beer with, say |
| 42% | COSTAR | 6 | Someone to split the bill with |
| 42% | TREND | 5 | Rise to the top of a news feed, say |
| 42% | TRENDS | 6 | Rises to the top of a news feed, say |
| 41% | BOP | 3 | “___ to the Top” (“High School Musical” song with a rhyming title) |
| 41% | TREND | 5 | Rise to the top of a Twitter news feed, say |
| 41% | PSYCHIC | 7 | Someone with the ability to see the future |
| 41% | CADGEARIDE | 10 | Find someone to carpool with, say |
| 40% | ANGLICAN | 8 | Someone faithful to the Church of England or any Church in communion with it |
| 40% | LEVEE | 5 | Embankment that's rhymed with "Chevy" in the chorus to "American Pie" |
| 40% | ROPES | 5 | Show someone the ___ (train a new hire, say) |
| 40% | AULD | 4 | Word with which to laud the new year |
| 39% | AMOS | 4 | Singer Tori with the new album "Ocean to Ocean" |
| 39% | STARWARSDAY | 11 | Occasion to say "May the Fourth be with you" |
| 39% | CRAZE | 5 | The newest fad, rhymes with maze. |
| 39% | WRONG | 5 | With 7-Across, what might cause the GPS to say "calculating route" |
| 39% | CROUCH | 6 | To get low to the ground; it rhymes with slouch |
| 39% | PET | 3 | Animal that goes to the vet and rhymes with "vet" |
| 38% | ACTI | 4 | With 66-Down, when Lady Macbeth says, "Leave all the rest to me" |
| 38% | BOO | 3 | Word you might say to scare the hiccups out of someone |
| 38% | IMNOTHERE | 9 | Message whispered to someone on the phone with an obnoxious caller |
| 38% | GABSESH | 7 | Time to dish with the girls, say |
| 38% | BOP | 3 | Groove to the beat (rhymes with "hop") |
| 37% | THETORTURED | 11 | With 35-Across, 2024 album that led to a new era in the Eras Tour |
| 37% | SIS | 3 | Female sibling or someone to spend New Year's Eve with, for short |