| 100% | SPERM | 5 | Uniters with 80-Across |
| 68% | WOOWOOWOO | 9 | With 80 Across, what it's like after a meeting of the Curly Fan Club? |
| 65% | OVA | 3 | Uniters with 51-Down |
| 65% | PALO | 4 | With 80-Across, Silicon Valley city |
| 64% | LARA | 4 | With 80-Across, longtime CBS News correspondent |
| 61% | DREW | 4 | With 80-Across, one of TV's Property Brothers |
| 58% | BETWEENAROCK | 12 | With 27 Across, dilemma-bound |
| 58% | PENNY | 5 | With 57 Across, small-time |
| 57% | AMFM | 4 | With 23 Across, two-band device |
| 57% | PROFILESIN | 10 | With 61 Across, 1956 best-seller |
| 57% | EARTHIN | 7 | With 24 Across, 1992 best-seller |
| 57% | TOGO | 4 | With 16 Across, drive-thru transaction |
| 57% | ITALO | 5 | With 9 Across, Indo-European subgroup |
| 57% | FLANNEL | 7 | With 38 Across, thick-fabric sleepwear |
| 57% | ROAST | 5 | With 15 Across, slow-cooked supper |
| 57% | STAN | 4 | With 130 Across, Spider-Man cocreator |
| 57% | ICE | 3 | With 38 Across, cooling-off period |
| 57% | THEBESTTHINGS | 13 | With 82 Across, single-syllable saw |
| 57% | EAST | 4 | Part of 80 Across |
| 56% | ODDS | 4 | With 37- Across and 44-Down, miscellany |
| 56% | ROLL | 4 | With 23 Across, start-of-class activity |
| 56% | FROMRAGS | 8 | With 46 Across, full-range, wealth-wise |
| 56% | UTAH | 4 | With 20 Across, a Pac-12 school |
| 56% | NOTHINGTO | 9 | With 36 and 56 Across, so-so |
| 54% | BETWEENSCYLLA | 13 | With 55 Across, dilemma-bound (from the ''Odyssey'') |
| 54% | WAGTHE | 6 | With 122 Across, a Hoffman-De Niro film |
| 54% | GUILLERMO | 9 | With 15 Across, scandal-ridden president of Ecuador |
| 54% | LOOKINGFOR | 10 | With 114 Across, near-miss Diane Keaton classic? |
| 52% | MACON | 5 | With 80-Down, peach center |
| 52% | BEHINDDOENUMBER3 | 16 | See 80 Across |