| 100% | BIDEN | 5 | With 10-Across, period that started in January 2021 |
| 58% | OBAMA | 5 | With 23-Across, period that began in January 2009 |
| 47% | SPACEAGE | 8 | Period that started with Sputnik |
| 43% | DRY | 3 | With 10 Across, what cannot be seen in the house after a tearjerker |
| 42% | IMDB | 4 | Site that started listing podcasts in 2021 |
| 42% | SPACEAGE | 8 | Time period that began with Sputnik in 1957 |
| 41% | AUGUST | 6 | Only month that starts on a Sunday in 2021 |
| 41% | LENT | 4 | Period starting on Feb. 17 in 2021 |
| 41% | DARK | 4 | With 12 Across, period that followed the fall of the Roman Empire |
| 40% | TAMPABAY | 8 | With 48-Across, NFL team that signed Tom Brady as its starting quarterback in 2020: 2 wds. |
| 39% | THETHIRTEEN | 11 | With 111 Across, historic home remedies that started a movement? |
| 39% | PRIDE | 5 | With 10-Across, period designated for celebrating the LGBTQ community |
| 39% | ALLIWANTFOR | 11 | With 33-Across, holiday tune that hit #1 on the Billboard charts in 2019, 2020, and 2021: 4 wds. |
| 39% | UNRELATED | 9 | Anagram of 10 Across that appropriately has nothing to do with Toby Fox |
| 39% | LINA | 4 | With 25 Across, Federal Trade Commission chair appointed in June 2021 |
| 39% | POTATO | 6 | With 58-Down, classic toy that dropped gendered titles in 2021 |
| 38% | RICHARD | 7 | With 19 Across, billionaire who took a notable vacation in July 2021 |
| 38% | BUTTER | 6 | BTS hit that spent 10 weeks at #1 in 2021 |
| 38% | KNOWINGYOU | 10 | Top 10 single that 30-Across performed at the Academy of Country Music Awards ceremony in 2021 (2 wds.) |
| 37% | TIM | 3 | With 10-Across, player that the Broncos replaced with Peyton Manning |
| 37% | ROMANA | 6 | Pax ___ (period that started with the reign of Augustus) |
| 37% | MOOVIEMOGUL | 11 | 10-Across that's big in Hollywood? |
| 37% | ROBOT | 5 | Charmin unveiled one in January, 2020, that delivers toilet paper to people stuck with an empty roll |
| 37% | BIGPOPPA | 8 | 1995 platinum rap hit that starts "To all the ladies in the place with style and grace" |
| 36% | SWORD | 5 | Weapon with a long metal blade that is commonly seen in period dramas |
| 36% | EASYONME | 8 | Adele hit that spent 10 weeks at #1 in 2021-2022: 3 wds. |
| 36% | SUNDANCE | 8 | Noted film festival that starts on January 23, 2020 in Utah |
| 36% | ETE | 3 | Saison that starts in juin |
| 36% | OHIO | 4 | River that starts in Pittsburgh |
| 36% | SANTANA | 7 | Starting in 1999, rock band with a song in the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 for 42 consecutive weeks |