| 100% | TUX | 3 | What a man would wear to the Oscars, for short |
| 61% | TUX | 3 | What James Bond would wear to a party, for short |
| 46% | TUX | 3 | What a boy might rent to wear to prom, for short |
| 45% | NUB | 3 | Worn to the ___ (like a very short pencil) |
| 43% | NEON | 4 | Let's go to the 1980s! What will you see here? You will see a lot of this bright shade used for clothes |
| 43% | AMP | 3 | What a guitar may be hooked up to, for short |
| 41% | PJS | 3 | What children wear to bed, for short |
| 41% | PJS | 3 | What kids wear to bed, for short |
| 41% | SNAP | 4 | What a center will do to a football at the start of a play |
| 40% | PRADA | 5 | What the devil wears, according to a 2006 movie |
| 40% | BTOB | 4 | Like intercompany trade, for short, and a hint to the starred answers |
| 40% | PJS | 3 | What some people wear to bed, for short |
| 40% | PJS | 3 | What you might wear to bed, for short |
| 39% | GOWN | 4 | Dress worn to the Oscars |
| 39% | NNW | 3 | Up and a little to the left, for short |
| 39% | ERODE | 5 | What the Colorado River will continue to do to the canyon for a few more zillion years |
| 39% | DIORS | 5 | They're worn to the Oscars |
| 38% | LAP | 3 | What a runner will do to another when they're more than 400 m ahead in the 5,000 m |
| 38% | PANDG | 5 | Consumer products giant, for short ... or a hint to the answers to the eight starred clues |
| 38% | OLIVIA | 6 | Laing who wrote “Everybody: A Book About Freedom,” which asks the reader to “imagine, for a minute, what it would be like to inhabit a body without fear” (April, 2021) |
| 38% | CODA | 4 | 2021 movie for which a deaf man won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar |
| 38% | ANGELA | 6 | ___ Bassett, the first actor to receive an Oscar nomination for a Marvel role |
| 37% | VAUDEVILLESHOWS | 15 | What many people went to see for a night out on the town in the 1920s |
| 37% | HURT | 4 | John —, late Best Actor in a Leading Role Oscar nominee for The Elephant Man |
| 37% | ATM | 3 | What a short person in a store might have to use, for short |
| 37% | PAGE | 4 | Geraldine —, Best Actress in a Leading Role Oscar winner for The Trip to Bountiful |
| 37% | NEONDEION | 9 | Nickname for the only man to play in a Super Bowl and a World Series |