| 100% | PAPA | 4 | With 10-Across, sobriquet for Bill O'Reilly used by 39-Across |
| 38% | DIET | 4 | With 25 Across, canonical brand for a 10 Down/11 Across |
| 37% | IPSO | 4 | With 39 Across, by its very nature |
| 37% | MELBA | 5 | With 39 Across, crispy base for cheese |
| 37% | UNIVERSITY | 10 | With 56 Across, school founded by 39 Across |
| 35% | LOOM | 4 | Apparatus for making fabric, used by a weaver, rhymes with "boom" |
| 35% | KISSMEKATE | 10 | 1948 show with music and lyrics by 39-Across that won the first Tony Award for Best Musical (3 wds.) |
| 35% | ICE | 3 | With 10-Across, treatment for a swelling |
| 33% | INMY | 4 | With 10-Across, 1963 hit for the Beach Boys |
| 33% | GREEN | 5 | With 31-Across, filling for the 39-Across special-edition 17-Across |
| 33% | PRIDE | 5 | With 10-Across, period designated for celebrating the LGBTQ community |
| 32% | BABYI | 5 | With 10-Down, 1967 hit for 42-Across |
| 32% | CERIA | 5 | Short name for the compound with the formula CeO2, used by glassmaking hobbyists for polishing |
| 32% | LEGALIZED | 9 | With 20 Across, what the people of AZ, NJ, MT, and SD voted for by proposition in 2020 |
| 32% | ANYTHINGGOES | 12 | 1934 show with music and lyrics by 39-Across whose 1987 and 2011 revivals both won the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical (2 wds.) |
| 32% | LAB | 3 | With 39-Across, rodent used in experiments |
| 32% | DREAMSARE | 9 | With 36 Across and 61 Across, a quote by Lupita Nyong'o |
| 32% | NINE | 4 | With 5- and 10-Across, need for 69-, 70- and 71-Across |
| 31% | BEHIND | 6 | With 10- and 65-Across, 1971 hit by the Who |
| 31% | LYRIC | 5 | With 39-Across, 21-/28-Across, for one |
| 31% | JACKIN | 6 | With 39-Across, apt title for this puzzle |
| 31% | IIS | 3 | Group of Internet servers created by Microsoft for use with Windows NT family |
| 31% | INSIDEEDITION | 13 | TV show anchored by Bill O'Reilly from 1989 to 1995 |
| 31% | NAS | 3 | Rapper who got into a 2008 feud with Bill O’Reilly |
| 30% | TWOSTEPSFORWARD | 15 | With 57-Across, metaphor for nonlinear progress depicted by the circled letters |
| 30% | KNIFE | 5 | With 63 Across, bag for chefs |
| 30% | SIGHOF | 6 | With 37 Across, ''Alas!'', for instance |
| 30% | JOYCE | 5 | With 39-Across, character played by 18-Across in "Stranger Things" |
| 30% | THEHOUSEOF | 10 | With 39-Across, 1982 debut novel by 29-Across: 3 wds. |
| 30% | LAWRENCE | 8 | With 61-Across Oscar film for '62 (with Peter O'Toole) |