| 100% | FOR2 | 4 | To be shared by a couple |
| 74% | ADUE | 4 | To be sung by a couple, in music |
| 56% | SECRET | 6 | Not to be shared, in a way |
| 56% | HAPPY | 5 | With 34-Across, 2023 bestseller by 18-Across about a broken-up couple pretending to still be together |
| 55% | POSED | 5 | Prepared to be shot by a photographer? |
| 55% | CURFEW | 6 | Rule to be home by a certain time |
| 54% | EXES | 4 | People who used to be a couple |
| 53% | HAPPYPLACE | 10 | 2023 romance novel by 44-Across about a separated couple pretending to still be together while vacationing with friends (2 wds.) |
| 53% | INLAND | 6 | Less likely to be hit by a hurricane |
| 53% | INCONTEMPT | 10 | Bad way to be held by a judge |
| 53% | STOP | 4 | Shout likely to be ignored by a thief |
| 52% | EROS | 4 | First asteroid to be orbited by a spacecraft (2000) |
| 52% | ICEIN | 5 | Cause to be stranded, as by a winter storm |
| 51% | HIP | 3 | "___ to be square," a hit song by Huey Lewis and the News |
| 51% | LOCHNESS | 8 | Scottish lake said to be inhabited by a monster |
| 51% | ISDUE | 5 | Needs to be submitted by, as a term paper |
| 51% | HYMNAL | 6 | It's bound to be used by a congregant |
| 50% | MAD | 3 | "I learned to be a movie critic by reading ___ magazine": Roger Ebert |
| 50% | AISLESEAT | 9 | Sit here if you don't want to be by a window |
| 50% | ARAISININTHESUN | 15 | First play written by a Black woman to be produced on Broadway |
| 49% | ECHOLOCATION | 12 | Skill shared by bats and dolphins, and a hint to the starred answers |
| 49% | KISS | 4 | What a couple might be encouraged to do on a stadium's Jumbotron |
| 49% | EBERT | 5 | He said "I learned to be a movie critic by reading Mad magazine" |
| 49% | FORTWO | 6 | To be shared |
| 49% | TAG | 3 | "This ___ not to be removed except by the consumer" (warning attached to a mattress) |
| 48% | LEGAL | 5 | "There is a ___ age to consume alcohol" (permitted by law) |
| 48% | ANDROMEDA | 9 | She was chained to a rock and saved by Perseus |
| 48% | SLID | 4 | Tried to avoid being tagged by a baseman |
| 48% | NONET | 5 | A chamber work by Louis Spohr was the first to bear this title |
| 48% | FORE | 4 | Warning to someone about to be hit by a golf ball |