| 100% | FOURTHWALL | 10 | What a character breaks when they talk directly to the audience |
| 40% | LAP | 3 | What a runner will do to another when they're more than 400 m ahead in the 5,000 m |
| 40% | ASIDES | 6 | Lines spoken directly to the audience in a play |
| 40% | ASIDES | 6 | Comments spoken directly to the audience, not to another character |
| 38% | ILLUSION | 8 | What a magician might create to fool the audience |
| 37% | SPLASH | 6 | What a diver tries to minimize when hitting the water |
| 37% | RISE | 4 | What a bailiff tells people to do when the judge enters |
| 35% | ASIDE | 5 | Comment from a stage actor directly to the audience |
| 34% | ASIDES | 6 | Lines spoken directly to the audience |
| 34% | ASIDE | 5 | Comment made directly to the audience |
| 34% | GOODLUCK | 8 | What actors mean when they say break a leg |
| 33% | BISON | 5 | Q: What did the buffalo say to his boy when he left? A: ___ |
| 33% | MARCHFO(U)RTH | 13 | Prior to the 20th Amendment, what 20-Across would do on 37-Across, or when they would do it |
| 32% | TOSS | 4 | What they do to a coin in Netflix's "The Witcher" according to Jaskier the Bard's song |
| 31% | EMCEE | 5 | "Cabaret" character who acts as a host to the audience |
| 31% | LASTPENNY | 9 | What a broke person is down to |
| 31% | NACL | 4 | What a chemist brings to the table? |
| 31% | TAX | 3 | What a citizen pays to the government |
| 31% | WAVE | 4 | What a surfer rides to the shore |
| 31% | LAMPCHOPS | 9 | What a judo master uses to break lights? |
| 31% | PAIL | 4 | What a milkmaid uses to hold the milk |
| 31% | CUT | 3 | What a director yells to end the scene? |
| 31% | TAX | 3 | What a dutiful citizen pays to the government |
| 31% | STOP | 4 | What a period tells the reader to do |
| 31% | PAW | 3 | What a boxer uses to hit the ground? |
| 31% | DAM | 3 | Answer to the joke "What did the fish say when it swam into a wall?" |
| 31% | SONICBOOM | 9 | What you hear when a plane breaks the speed of sound: 2 wds. |
| 31% | CARBONOFFSETS | 13 | They fund projects that remove a gas from the atmosphere, which is a hint to what's happening in four Across answers |
| 30% | TENTHS | 6 | Place that’s directly to the right of a decimal point |
| 30% | TAPE | 4 | What a runner breaks through at the finish line |