| 100% | BAR | 3 | What a priest, a rabbi, and a minister walk into, in many jokes |
| 69% | BAR | 3 | What a priest, a minister and a rabbi might walk into |
| 59% | BAR | 3 | Setting for many a joke about a priest, a rabbi and a minister |
| 55% | RABBI | 5 | Companion of a priest and a minister in many a joke |
| 54% | BAR | 3 | "A priest, a rabbi, and a duck walk into a ___ ... " |
| 49% | BAR | 3 | Setting for many a joke with a priest, a pastor and a rabbi |
| 49% | ABAR | 4 | "A rabbi, a priest and a duck walk into ___ ..." |
| 49% | ABAR | 4 | "A rabbi, a priest and a duck walk into ____ ..." |
| 47% | RABBI | 5 | One of three people walking into a bar, in many a joke |
| 43% | ABAR | 4 | "A priest and a dog walk into ___ ..." |
| 42% | RABBI | 5 | Priest and minister's partner, in classic jokes |
| 41% | RABBI | 5 | Priest and minister's cohort, in jokes |
| 40% | RABBI | 5 | One of three people walking into a bar, in jokes |
| 39% | RABBI | 5 | One of three people walking into a bar, in a joke |
| 39% | SOA | 3 | "___ guy walks into a bar..." (start of many a joke): 2 wds. |
| 38% | PUN | 3 | A man walks into a bar joke |
| 38% | WHYTHEFFAACCEE | 14 | What a stereotypical bartender asks after a horse walks into a bar |
| 38% | CIRCLETHEWAGONS | 15 | Get into a defensive position, and what we do in this grid |
| 36% | ABAR | 4 | "President Obama, John Boehner and a duck walk into ___ …" |
| 36% | STALEMATERIAL | 13 | Dated jokes ... and what the ends of four Across answers are, in a way |
| 36% | SIDEHUSTLE | 10 | Extra job, and a hint to what each starred answer is for many (and literally is, in this puzzle) |
| 35% | BAR | 3 | "So a man walks into a ___..." (classic joke cycle) |
| 35% | BAR | 3 | "A guy walks into a ___ ..." (clichéd joke opening) |
| 35% | ABAR | 4 | It's often walked into in jokes |
| 35% | CANNON | 6 | T-shirt ___, launcher that shoots team t-shirts into the crowd, and a popular break-time sight in most stadium sports |
| 34% | LISLE | 5 | What's in many a glove |
| 34% | ANEW | 4 | In a fresh and more positive way |
| 34% | STPETER | 7 | Character in many a joke |
| 34% | STPETER | 7 | Subject in many a joke |
| 34% | YES | 3 | What a fist bobbing up and down means in American Sign Language |