| 100% | OUTER | 5 | With 1-Down, what the James Webb Telescope photographs |
| 48% | NASA | 4 | Operator of the James Webb Telescope |
| 47% | NASA | 4 | Org. that operates the James Webb telescope |
| 39% | FIVE | 4 | With 1-Down, what a posh hotel might be given |
| 39% | WHALE | 5 | With 1-Down, largest fish in the ocean |
| 39% | HIP | 3 | Down with what the kids are into these days |
| 39% | AFTER | 5 | With 1-Down, at the end of the day |
| 39% | ONTHE | 5 | With 1-Down, defining book of the Beat generation |
| 38% | TOM | 3 | With 1-Down, five-time winner of the British Open |
| 38% | ARTS | 4 | What the "A" in 1-Down stands for |
| 38% | STAR | 4 | James Webb telescope subject |
| 38% | DURAN | 5 | With 2-Down, group with the only James Bond theme to hit #1 |
| 37% | ERIC | 4 | With 1-Down, player of the Hulk in 2003's "Hulk" |
| 37% | ART | 3 | With 1 Down, retro style |
| 37% | FIRST | 5 | With 1-Down, tradition for the married couple at a wedding reception |
| 37% | EARLY | 5 | With 1-Down, people who get up at the crack of dawn |
| 36% | ALI | 3 | With 1 Down, ''Open sesame'' sayer |
| 36% | DEBT | 4 | With 11 Down, much-debated political limit ... and what the puzzle's circled squares compose? |
| 36% | NIGHT | 5 | With 55-Down, what happens multilingually in the circles |
| 36% | TIME | 4 | With 63-Across, what (in abbreviated form) has been added to the long Down answers |
| 36% | LILJON | 6 | Atlanta rapper with the hit "Turn Down for What" (with DJ Snake): 2 wds. |
| 35% | UPSIDECAKE | 10 | With 1 Down, dessert sometimes made with pineapple |
| 35% | BIG | 3 | With 61-Down, description of the 1-Across |
| 35% | SHIRLEY | 7 | With 1 Down, first Black woman in congress |
| 35% | KNOCKDRAGOUT | 12 | With 1 Down, like a free-for-all fight |
| 35% | CAITLIN | 7 | With 1-Down, Iowa Hawkeyes player who recently became the NCAA's all-time scoring leader |
| 34% | AISLE | 5 | What the bride walks down |
| 34% | BATEDBREATH | 11 | What the agog wait with |
| 34% | NASA | 4 | James Webb Space Telescope organization: Abbr. |
| 34% | DIANAROSS | 9 | Singer with the 1980 #1 hit "Upside Down" |