| 100% | GLUCOSE | 7 | Sugar in apricots and dates |
| 48% | CHEUGY | 6 | Dated and forced, in slang |
| 47% | INOSITOL | 8 | Naturally occurring sugar in the brain and body |
| 44% | COMPOTE | 7 | Fruit preserve cooked and reduced in sugar |
| 44% | CRYSTALS | 8 | They appear in snow, quartz and sugar |
| 44% | CUSTARD | 7 | Egg and sugar sauce put in pastries |
| 42% | IGOTYOU | 7 | James Brown feels like sugar and spice in this hit |
| 42% | OPERA | 5 | Setting for Cher and Nicolas Cage's date in "Moonstruck" |
| 41% | PEAR | 4 | Fruit cooked in cream and sugar |
| 41% | SOLOPARTS | 9 | Soldier Doll, Mouse King and Sugar Plum Fairy, in "The Nutcracker" |
| 41% | NICKS | 5 | Stevie ___ and Lindsey Buckingham, rock musicians who dated in the '70s |
| 41% | MICK | 4 | ___ Jagger and Marianne Faithfull, rock musicians who dated in the '70s |
| 41% | SID | 3 | ___ Vicious and Nancy Spungen, rock musicians who dated in the '70s |
| 41% | SLASH | 5 | Symbol that often separates the day and month in a date |
| 41% | TROPES | 6 | "Fake dating" and "enemies to lovers," e.g., in rom-coms |
| 41% | SAP | 3 | Solution of sugars and mineral salts that circulates in a plant |
| 41% | CONES | 5 | They come in waffle and sugar varieties |
| 40% | STALEMATERIAL | 13 | Dated jokes ... and what the ends of four Across answers are, in a way |
| 40% | ELECTIONS | 9 | Contests for Charley in “Queen Sugar” and Kat in “The Bold Type” |
| 40% | BRAUTIGAN | 9 | Richard —, author of novels In Watermelon Sugar and Trout Fishing in America |
| 40% | SUZETTE | 7 | Served in a sauce made with orange juice, sugar and Grand Marnier |
| 40% | SWEETANDSOUR | 12 | Sauce made from sugar and vinegar or lemon popular in Chinese cookery |
| 40% | ROOM | 4 | Space for cream and sugar, in coffee order lingo |
| 39% | BRAUTIGAN | 9 | Richard —, author of the novels In Watermelon Sugar and Trout Fishing in America |
| 38% | BLIND | 5 | Like some turns and dates |
| 38% | HUES | 4 | Apricot and tangerine |
| 38% | HARRYSTYLES | 11 | "Watermelon Sugar" singer who dated Taylor Swift in 2012: 2 wds. |
| 37% | ROCKCA | 6 | Sugar in large crystals |
| 37% | DREW | 4 | ___ Barrymore and Adam Sandler, "50 First Dates" actors who have starred in multiple rom-coms together |
| 37% | FIRST | 5 | "50 ___ Dates," 2004 rom-com starring Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore that was shot in Hawaii |