| 100% | TRES | 4 | With 12-Across, French for "Very good!" |
| 67% | BOOT | 4 | With 12 Across, place for basic training |
| 67% | HOT | 3 | With 12 Across, another name for 22 Across |
| 59% | THESTIFLE | 9 | With 12 Down, nickname for French NBA defensive star Rudy Gobert |
| 55% | ISSA | 4 | With 12-Across, winner of an NAACP Image Award for "Insecure" |
| 54% | WILD | 4 | With 12 Across, American frontier |
| 53% | RACHEL | 6 | With 12 Across, author of quote |
| 53% | STOP | 4 | With 12 Across, octagonal traffic marker |
| 52% | ESPY | 4 | Award for very good plays? |
| 52% | ESPYS | 5 | Awards for very good plays |
| 52% | BURN | 4 | Slang for very good insult |
| 51% | TRESBIEN | 8 | Very good, in French |
| 51% | LES | 3 | French for 22 Across |
| 51% | ABBE | 4 | With 12 Across, singer and actress born Abigail Lassman |
| 51% | LALA | 4 | With 8-Across, loser to "Moonlight" for Best Picture |
| 50% | TIMEHEALS | 9 | With 12 Across, maxim stressing the natural resolution of problems |
| 50% | BONVOYAGE | 9 | French for "have a good trip" |
| 50% | BON | 3 | French for good, goes before voyage |
| 50% | LES | 3 | French for "the", used with plurals |
| 49% | POIVRE | 6 | French for pepper, it goes with sel |
| 49% | ERIK | 4 | With 38 Across, French composer |
| 48% | DARK | 4 | With 12 Across, period that followed the fall of the Roman Empire |
| 48% | TIN | 3 | With 12-Down, source of metal for cans |
| 48% | BEAUCOUP | 8 | Merci __, French for thanks very much |
| 48% | LILIESOF | 8 | With 64-Across, film for which 47-Across won an Oscar for Best Actor |
| 48% | JUSTLY | 6 | With very good reason |
| 47% | SHARP | 5 | Good for cutting with |
| 47% | EDITWHERE | 9 | With 40-Across, good advice for correcting a manuscript? |
| 47% | BEAUCOUP | 8 | French for many or much, used with thank you |
| 47% | KNIFE | 5 | With 63 Across, bag for chefs |