| 100% | BALL | 4 | Stop the loop in these popular TV shows! (1/6) Stop Lucy from pulling away this soccer plaything to trip Charlie Brown yet again! |
| 27% | HAZZARD | 7 | The Dukes of __, popular TV show from '79 to '85 |
| 25% | LUCY | 4 | Girl who pulls the football away from Charlie Brown |
| 24% | AJA | 3 | Actress ___ Naomi King from the TV show "How to Get Away with Murder" |
| 24% | YOUBLOCKHEAD | 12 | Lucy van Pelt's frequent outburst to Charlie Brown ... or how to fill some squares in this puzzle? |
| 24% | THEMANFROMUNCLE | 15 | Hit 1960's TV show with a hint to the nine starred clues in this puzzle |
| 23% | RHODA | 5 | First TV show to debut at #1 in the Nielsen ratings |
| 22% | HEAD | 4 | The first blank in this phrase: From ___ to ___ |
| 22% | TOE | 3 | The second blank in this phrase: From ___ to ___ |
| 21% | POOR | 4 | According to The World Bank, in 2015, 734 million people were this, a change from 1990's figure of 1.9 billion |
| 21% | SPOILERS | 8 | Snippets from TV shows that give the game away |
| 21% | YEMEN | 5 | In the TV show "Friends," country where Chandler has to go unwillingly |
| 21% | JOKES | 5 | (6/6) Stop Michael Scott from telling more inappropriate ones of these, or HR will be on alert yet again! |
| 21% | RUDOLPH | 7 | Who's depicted in this puzzle when the circled letters are connected from A to Z and back to A |
| 21% | RUNNINGJOKE | 11 | Lucy pulling the football away in "Peanuts," e.g. |
| 20% | MISSIONIMPOSSIBLE | 17 | Popular action film franchise ... or what trying to find the item in this puzzle can be described as |
| 20% | BELUSHI | 7 | Only person to have the #1 movie, #1 album and #1-rated late-night TV show all in the same week |
| 20% | BREAKINGBAD | 11 | #3 on Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time (as of 2016) ... and a hint to what the black squares are doing in four rows of this puzzle |
| 20% | LASSIE | 6 | TV collie in various series from the 1950s to the 1990s |
| 20% | TWINPEAKS | 9 | TV show that concluded with the line “I’ll see you again in twenty-five years” |
| 20% | ALLY | 4 | "Austin & ___", comedy TV show that ran on the Disney Channel from 2011 to 2016 |
| 20% | FULLHOUSE | 9 | The odds of being dealt this in poker are 693 to 1 |
| 20% | TIMEWARP | 8 | Let's do this again in The Rocky Horror Show |
| 20% | HILL | 4 | "One Tree ___," drama TV series that moved from The WB to The CW in 2006 |
| 20% | WALL | 4 | "Hole in the ___," show that moved from Fox to Cartoon Network in 2010 |
| 20% | ORING | 5 | Certain NASA equipment … shown literally in the solution to this puzzle |
| 20% | ORRIN | 5 | First name in the senate from 1977 to earlier this month |
| 19% | ETHELWATERS | 11 | Harlem Renaissance singer and actress who was the first African American to star in her own TV show: 2 wds. |
| 19% | WHO | 3 | (4/6) Stop the next person who asks "Doctor ___?" or everyone in the TARDIS will be stuck in a loop with that mysterious question again! |
| 19% | TOGETHER | 8 | "___ for Christmas," 1962 Christmas episode from the TV series "The Lucy Show" |