| 100% | PATTI | 5 | With 14 Across, "Because the Night" singer |
| 56% | LINE | 4 | With 14 Across, payoff at the end of a joke |
| 52% | STEPHAN | 7 | With 32-Across, the lead singer of 14-Across |
| 50% | BRAND | 5 | With 14-Across, fresh from the factory |
| 50% | TERI | 4 | With 14-Across, "Meet the Parents" co-star |
| 49% | BIG | 3 | With 14-Across, scenic stretch of the California coast |
| 49% | LAKE | 4 | With 14-Across, water on the California/Nevada border |
| 49% | SYL | 3 | Singer Johnson with the 1969 hit "Is It Because I'm Black" |
| 48% | VANMORRISON | 11 | Rock singer with the 1971 song "Wild Night": 2 wds. |
| 48% | MEL | 3 | With 14-Across, slugger signed by the Giants at age 16 |
| 47% | LIONELRICHIE | 12 | Singer with five #1 songs in the 1980s, including "All Night Long" (2 wds.) |
| 47% | HUNT | 4 | With 14 Across, "Twister" star |
| 46% | FRUIT | 5 | With 14 Across, sweet summer beverage |
| 46% | STOCKING | 8 | With 14 Across, some Christmas gifts |
| 46% | FACE | 4 | With 5 Across, company that the 14 Down is suing for allegedly breaking antitrust laws |
| 46% | NINE | 4 | See 14 Across ... or the number of interconnected Monday puzzles before this one, starting with 3/15 |
| 46% | ROM | 3 | With 14 Across, films like ''Pretty Woman'' |
| 45% | ORR | 3 | Stay the Night singer Benjamin |
| 45% | LIONELRICHIE | 12 | Singer with five No. 1 songs in the 1980s, including "All Night Long (All Night)" (2 wds.) |
| 45% | HOLE | 4 | With 14 Across, office tool for paper shaping |
| 45% | PATTISMITH | 10 | "Because the Night" singer-songwriter who wrote "Babel," a book of poetry and drawings (2 wds.) |
| 45% | SPEAKTHEANSWERS | 15 | What to do with 14 Across |
| 45% | ZIP | 3 | With 14-Across, five or nine digits at the end of a snail mail address |
| 44% | BUGGY | 5 | With 14 Across, Volkswagen Beetle in a car game |
| 44% | TERI | 4 | With 14-Across, star of "The Fosters" |
| 44% | SINATRA | 7 | "Strangers in the Night" singer |
| 44% | LIPA | 4 | “Dance the Night” singer Dua |
| 44% | DUA | 3 | ___ Lipa ("Dance the Night" singer) |
| 44% | LIPA | 4 | "Dance the Night" singer Dua ___ |
| 44% | DUA | 3 | "Dance the Night" singer ___ Lipa |