| 100% | EPEE | 4 | Sword used during the 18-Across |
| 67% | EPEE | 4 | Type of sword used during the Summer Olympics |
| 54% | ETTU | 4 | Phrase associated with the 18 Across |
| 51% | XMAS | 4 | Shortening used during the holidays |
| 50% | JERUSALEMCROSS | 14 | Christian symbol used during the Crusades |
| 49% | MACE | 4 | Spiked weapon used during the Middle Ages |
| 49% | EPEE | 4 | Sword used in the Olympics |
| 48% | ACS | 3 | Room coolers mostly used during the summer: Abbr. |
| 48% | EPEE | 4 | Sword used in the Olympic pentathlon |
| 48% | EPEE | 4 | Sword used in the modern pentathlon |
| 48% | EPEE | 4 | Sword used in the Summer Olympics |
| 48% | OBOEDAMORE | 10 | Double reed woodwind instrument used during the baroque era |
| 47% | EPEE | 4 | Sword used in the sport of fencing |
| 46% | LEONARD | 7 | With 18 Across, recipient of the comment |
| 45% | ETHER | 5 | Anesthetic first used during surgeries in the 1840s |
| 45% | EPEE | 4 | Fencing sword used in the Olympics |
| 45% | EPEES | 5 | French swords used at the Olympics |
| 44% | EPEE | 4 | Fencing sword used in the Olympic pentathlon |
| 44% | EPEE | 4 | Fencing sword used in the modern pentathlon |
| 43% | BHUT | 4 | With 18 Across, plant also known as the ghost pepper |
| 43% | COGS | 4 | The teeth of an 18 Across |
| 42% | EPEE | 4 | Type of sword used in the Olympics |
| 41% | JOE | 3 | With 18 Across, 46th male President of the United States of America |
| 40% | BLANKETS | 8 | These are used to cover the body during sleep |
| 40% | EERO | 4 | Saarinen who designed the 18-Across Chapel |
| 40% | SEATBACKPOCKET | 14 | Where the 18-Across is commonly found |
| 39% | TURNDOWNANOSCAR | 15 | What 18 and 52 Across were the only performers to do |
| 38% | ELON | 4 | Musk in the 18-Across sketch "Gen-Z Hospital" |
| 38% | CARD | 4 | Library ___, I.D. you might have used during your childhood to borrow books from the library |
| 38% | SALMRUSHDIE | 11 | Novelist who used the alias Joseph Anton during nine years in hiding |