| 100% | DEIRDRE | 7 | W B Yeats play performed at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin in 1906 |
| 35% | OCASEY | 6 | Seán whose first play debuted at the Abbey Theatre |
| 33% | COOLE | 5 | The Wild Swans at __, poem by W. B. Yeats |
| 31% | THESCHOOLFOR | 12 | & 8A R B Sheridan stage play first performed in 1777 featuring the character Lady Sneerwell |
| 29% | ACT | 3 | Perform in the play "Sweat" |
| 29% | EROICA | 6 | Work first publicly performed at the Theater an der Wien in 1805 |
| 29% | GROUP | 5 | Blue Man ___ (act that's performing at the Luxor in Las Vegas) |
| 28% | WIDTH | 5 | The B in AxBxC, at times |
| 27% | SEAGULL | 7 | The —, Anton Chekhov stage play first performed in 1896 |
| 27% | LARK | 4 | The —, stage play by Jean Anouilh first performed in 1953 |
| 26% | ULTIMATEFRISBEE | 15 | Widely played sport developed at Amherst College in the 1960s |
| 26% | KNOWINGYOU | 10 | Top 10 single that 30-Across performed at the Academy of Country Music Awards ceremony in 2021 (2 wds.) |
| 26% | SANG | 4 | Performed at the Met |
| 26% | SUNG | 4 | Performed at the Met |
| 26% | LITTLEEYOLF | 11 | 1894 play by Henrik Ibsen first performed in the following year |
| 25% | ARE | 3 | "Diamonds ___ a Girl's Best Friend," song that Kylie Minogue performed at the opening ceremony of Fox Studios in Sydney |
| 25% | ADLIB | 5 | Perform at the Improv, say |
| 25% | GHOST | 5 | ___ in the Graveyard, kids' "spooky" game you might spot being played at 17a |
| 25% | SAM | 3 | Actor Rockwell who plays George W. Bush in the upcoming film "Vice" |
| 25% | JIM | 3 | ___ Carter, actor who plays Charlie Carson in the Emmy-winning series "Downton Abbey" |
| 25% | ROSE | 4 | ___ Leslie, actress who plays Gwen Harding in the Emmy-winning series "Downton Abbey" |
| 25% | EAR | 3 | Song played at the school dance in "Back to the Future" |
| 25% | INIT | 4 | The G, W or B in G.W.B. |
| 24% | ROB | 3 | ___ James-Collier, actor who plays Thomas Barrow in the Emmy-winning series "Downton Abbey" |
| 24% | MICHELLE | 8 | ___ Dockery, actress who plays Lady Mary Crawley in the Emmy-winning series "Downton Abbey" |
| 24% | CHURM | 5 | Sarah —, actress who played Sarah Braithwaite in ITV series At Home with the Braithwaites |
| 24% | SARAH | 5 | & 8D Actress who played Sarah Braithwaite in ITV series At Home with the Braithwaites |
| 24% | AUDEN | 5 | "In Memory of W. B. Yeats" poet |