| 100% | DON | 3 | With 14-Across, longtime CNN host |
| 58% | HUNT | 4 | With 14 Across, "Twister" star |
| 57% | FRUIT | 5 | With 14 Across, sweet summer beverage |
| 57% | STOCKING | 8 | With 14 Across, some Christmas gifts |
| 57% | ROM | 3 | With 14 Across, films like ''Pretty Woman'' |
| 57% | PATTI | 5 | With 14 Across, "Because the Night" singer |
| 56% | HOLE | 4 | With 14 Across, office tool for paper shaping |
| 55% | SPEAKTHEANSWERS | 15 | What to do with 14 Across |
| 55% | BUGGY | 5 | With 14 Across, Volkswagen Beetle in a car game |
| 54% | LINE | 4 | With 14 Across, payoff at the end of a joke |
| 52% | ALEX | 4 | With 13-Down, longtime "Jeopardy!" host |
| 50% | THATS | 5 | With 14-Across, "?????" |
| 49% | KEEL | 4 | With 14-Across, collapse |
| 49% | ROSIE | 5 | With 68 Across, former daytime TV host |
| 48% | STEUBEN | 7 | With 14-Across, certain crystal |
| 48% | EGGS | 4 | With 14-Across, breakfast order? |
| 48% | SIDE | 4 | With 14-Across, cruise bonus |
| 48% | TAKE | 4 | With 14-Across, become ignited |
| 48% | DUDE | 4 | With 14-Across, "Bro, no!" |
| 48% | THE | 3 | With 14-Across, "Some nerve!" |
| 48% | SCRAP | 5 | With 14-Across, recyclable metal |
| 48% | BUTDOCTOR | 9 | With 14 and 19 Across, punchline of a joke about a clown |
| 48% | WOLFBLITZER | 11 | Longtime host of CNN's "The Situation Room" |
| 48% | LENO | 4 | Longtime host who wrote "Leading With My Chin" |
| 48% | IRA | 3 | With 34-Down, longtime public radio host |
| 47% | RELAY | 5 | With 14-Across, event with batons |
| 47% | SWEET | 5 | With 14-Across, weakness for sugar |
| 47% | THE | 3 | With 14-Across, "long-armed" institution |
| 47% | IWANT | 5 | With 14-Across, deal-breaking words |
| 47% | MISTERROGERS | 12 | Longtime TV host with a 1997 Lifetime Achievement Emmy |