| 100% | CASEOF | 6 | Start for every Perry Mason title, with "The" |
| 51% | BEST | 4 | Start of the title for every Oscar |
| 49% | THECASE | 7 | Start of a Perry Mason title |
| 49% | THECASE | 7 | Start of any Perry Mason title |
| 44% | ONLY | 4 | Start for the Top 40 song titles "Sixteen," "Time" and "You" |
| 43% | ROLEX | 5 | Watch brand with the slogan "A Crown for Every Achievement" |
| 43% | KYRIE | 5 | With 37-Across, starting guard for the 43-Across |
| 43% | LEBRON | 6 | With 22-Across, starting forward for the 43-Across |
| 42% | JLO | 3 | Superstar with the confusingly titled album This Is Me ... Then, for short |
| 42% | RAPGOD | 6 | Boastful Eminem title with the Guinness world record for "most words in a hit single" (1,560) |
| 39% | ANT | 3 | Insect indigenous to every continent except the one that starts with its name |
| 38% | REDEEMER | 8 | Title for Jesus, with "the" |
| 38% | JUSTTHETWOOFUS | 14 | 1981 hit with the lyric "We can make it if we try" ... or a possible title for this puzzle |
| 38% | LETSDANCE | 9 | Classic David Bowie song with the lyric "Put on your red shoes," and an apt title for this puzzle |
| 38% | CASE | 4 | Word in many Perry Mason titles |
| 38% | LAWYER | 6 | Perry Mason, for one |
| 37% | SESS | 4 | It often starts with the striking of a gavel, for short |
| 37% | CASEOF | 6 | Words in many a Perry Mason title |
| 37% | APEMAN | 6 | Title for Tarzan, with "the": 2 wds. |
| 37% | EYEOFTHETIGER | 13 | 1982 hit for Survivor with a sign of the Chinese zodiac in its title: 4 wds. |
| 37% | DOOMS | 5 | Start for the last day? |
| 36% | WHITERABBIT | 11 | 1967 hit for Jefferson Airplane with a sign of the Chinese zodiac in its title: 2 wds. |
| 36% | EQUIPPED | 8 | With the tools for the job |
| 36% | YESIMREADY | 10 | 1965 Barbara Mason song (covered by Jeffrey Osborne in 2005) whose title starts with an "answer": 3 wds. |
| 36% | DANCEMONKEY | 11 | 2019 hit for Tones and I with a sign of the Chinese zodiac in its title: 2 wds. |
| 36% | MAAM | 4 | Title with an apostrophe in the middle |
| 35% | FRIENDS | 7 | Nearly all of its episode titles start "The One With ..." |
| 35% | BROMANTICCOMEDY | 15 | Modern-day genre for the 1952 film whose title is suggested by a word ladder starting at 1-Across |
| 35% | SUE | 3 | Bird who won four WNBA titles with the Seattle Storm |
| 35% | MAPLE | 5 | (2/6)"We'll have some pancakes drizzled with tasty amber-colored ___ syrup for breakfast before starting the day." |