| 100% | JOLLY | 5 | What "’tis the season to be," in "Deck the Halls" |
| 69% | TIS | 3 | "___ the season to be jolly ..." ("Deck the Hall" lyrics) |
| 57% | YULE | 4 | 'Tis the season to be jolly |
| 57% | FALALALALALALALALA | 18 | '''Tis the season to be jolly, __'' |
| 57% | THEBOSS | 7 | What James Brown “paid the cost to be,” in a 1973 song |
| 56% | SEDATED | 7 | What the Ramones wanted to be in a 1978 hit song |
| 56% | ONE | 3 | The ___, what Neo was destined to be in the film "The Matrix" |
| 55% | SCARY | 5 | What the monsters in "Monsters, Inc." want to be |
| 54% | MARATSA{FIN} | 12 | First Russian to be inducted in the International Tennis Hall of Fame |
| 54% | LAW | 3 | What the bill wants to be, in "I'm Just a Bill" |
| 54% | PENNAMES | 8 | What the answers to starred clues are, in different ways |
| 54% | TREE | 4 | What Melinda is assigned to draw in the novel "Speak" |
| 54% | SNEEZED | 7 | What Fred Ott did in the first movie to be copyrighted |
| 53% | TWOCENTS | 8 | In the US, what one's opinion is said to be worth |
| 53% | UPSET | 5 | What many consider the Mets beating the Orioles in '69 to be |
| 53% | VIDEO | 5 | What media companies are "pivoting to" in the digital era |
| 52% | RAD | 3 | What the Dead Kennedys and Minor Threat were to skateboarders in the '80s |
| 52% | GRANDFATHER | 11 | What 18-Across is, to the other protagonist, Morty Smith, in "Rick and Morty" |
| 51% | JACKIESTILES | 12 | 2016 Women's Basketball Hall of Fame inductee who was the first Division I player to score over 1,000 points in a season: 2 wds. |
| 51% | TIS | 3 | "___ the season to be jolly" |
| 51% | TIS | 3 | "___ the season to be jolly ..." |
| 51% | TIS | 3 | "___ the season to be jolly!" |
| 51% | TIS | 3 | "— the season to be jolly" |
| 51% | TIS | 3 | "___ the season to be jolly..." |
| 51% | TIS | 3 | "___ the season to be jolly ... " |
| 51% | TIS | 3 | "___ the season to be jolly.." |
| 51% | TIS | 3 | ''__ the season to be jolly . . .'' |
| 51% | TIS | 3 | "___ the season to be jolly." |
| 51% | TIS | 3 | "___ the season to be merry" |
| 51% | TIS | 3 | "___ the season to be merry!" |