| 100% | TIGER | 5 | With 10-Across, ocelot and margay |
| 63% | DOWN | 4 | With 10-Across, completely and utterly |
| 61% | MINI | 4 | With 10-Across, place to get milk and bread |
| 59% | FOOD | 4 | With 10-Across and 16-Down, a light and fluffy dessert |
| 58% | GREEN | 5 | With 10-Across, policy proposal of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ed Markey |
| 58% | BEHIND | 6 | With 10- and 65-Across, 1971 hit by the Who |
| 57% | GIRL | 4 | With 10-Across and the circled letters, a best-selling novel, with "The" |
| 53% | CONTINUEDONNEXT | 15 | With 27-Down, like 10-Across and others |
| 52% | TAROT | 5 | With 10-Down, The Devil and Death |
| 52% | EVERYSOOFT | 10 | With 10-Down, literally, now and then |
| 52% | TWOTHINGSALWAYS | 15 | With 10- and 15-Down, a Fellini quote |
| 51% | FRANCHISE | 9 | Nickname of 10 Across, with "The" |
| 51% | DECAGON | 7 | Shape with 10 sides and angles |
| 51% | DRY | 3 | With 10 Across, what cannot be seen in the house after a tearjerker |
| 51% | KIM | 3 | With 10-Down, mother of North and Saint West |
| 51% | ELI | 3 | With 10-Down, director of "Hostel" and "Cabin Fever" |
| 50% | APPLE | 5 | Fruit associated with 17- and 56-Across and 10- and 24-Down |
| 50% | NINE | 4 | With 5- and 10-Across, need for 69-, 70- and 71-Across |
| 49% | COMIC | 5 | With 84 Across, Gilbert and Sullivan specialty |
| 49% | CUL | 3 | With 10-Across, stalemate |
| 48% | FISTBUMPOR | 10 | With 40 and 64 Across, congratulatory choices |
| 48% | ODDS | 4 | With 37- Across and 44-Down, miscellany |
| 48% | NOTHINGTO | 9 | With 36 and 56 Across, so-so |
| 48% | DENTISTS | 8 | Experts with the ends of 17- and 55-Across and 10- and 24-Down |
| 48% | EASYTHERE | 9 | With 10-Across, "Down, boy!" |
| 48% | ONE | 3 | With 10-Across, common combination |
| 48% | ALCHEMY | 7 | Activity associated with the word ladder formed by 1-, 10-, 70- and 72-Across |
| 48% | IAN | 3 | With 10-Down, lead vocalist and flutist for rock's Jethro Tull |
| 48% | UHAUL | 5 | Rental with 10-, 15-, 17-, 20- and 26-foot sizes |