| 100% | MISO | 4 | Soup with 28 Down |
| 68% | DECO | 4 | With 28 Down, painting style |
| 67% | ALLTHINGS | 9 | With 28 Down, on the whole |
| 56% | PEARL | 5 | With 28-Down, Oahu feature |
| 55% | IPSO | 4 | With 28-Down, logician's phrase |
| 55% | LONE | 4 | With 28-Down, a 1996 western |
| 55% | END | 3 | With 28-Down, Anthony Hopkins film |
| 55% | BEAR | 4 | With 28-Down, persevere despite hardship |
| 55% | ALOE | 4 | With 28-Down, hand lotion ingredient |
| 55% | NAIL | 4 | With 28-Down, mani-pedi tools |
| 54% | OLE | 3 | With 28-Down, a university in Dixie |
| 54% | HAVETUX | 7 | With 28-Down, 37-Across's autobiography |
| 54% | MARY | 4 | With 28-Down, Abe Lincoln's bride |
| 54% | BORDER | 6 | With 28-Down, theme of this puzzle |
| 54% | ANTONIN | 7 | With 28-Down, a Supreme Court justice |
| 54% | OTTO | 4 | With 28-Down, German nuclear fission pioneer |
| 54% | RAY | 3 | With 28-Down, longtime McDonald's chief |
| 53% | OLEO | 4 | With 28-Down, butterlike product of beef fat |
| 53% | AFTER | 5 | With 28-Down, disagreeable quality of diet sodas |
| 53% | BACK | 4 | With 28-Down, part of a golf course |
| 53% | BLOT | 4 | Rorschach image made with 28-Down |
| 53% | METE | 4 | 28-Down, with "out" |
| 52% | TEX | 3 | With 28-Down, rhyming cuisine from the southwestern US |
| 52% | ANDY | 4 | With 28-Down, noted 20th-century American artist, informally |
| 50% | ELLEN | 5 | With 28-Down, newswoman who founded a college in Claremont, Calif. |
| 50% | SRI | 3 | With 28-Down, its flag has a lion holding a sword |
| 49% | JANET | 5 | With 28-Down, first woman to serve as U.S. attorney general |
| 48% | LARRYTHE | 8 | With 28-Down, voice of Mater in the three "Cars" movies: 2 wds. |
| 47% | MISO | 4 | Soup with sushi |
| 47% | MINESTRONE | 10 | Soup with pasta |