| 100% | ELE | 3 | With 18- & 19-Across, Toys "R" Us department |
| 52% | MACYS | 5 | Department store that recently partnered with Toys "R" Us |
| 52% | HOME | 4 | With 18- and 19-Across, classic song that starts "'Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam" |
| 46% | PETER | 5 | With 18-Across, R.E.M. guitarist |
| 43% | SONOFA | 6 | With 18-Across, Jimmy Buffett album that gave us "Cheeseburger in Paradise" |
| 42% | TWO | 3 | With 19-Across, U.S. representative's term |
| 42% | SPIRITOF | 8 | With 19-Across, U.S.C.'s marching band |
| 40% | REOPEN | 6 | What Toys R Us has managed to do recently |
| 40% | CONTENT | 7 | With 18 Across, many an internet celebrity |
| 40% | LEONARD | 7 | With 18 Across, recipient of the comment |
| 38% | MYSTERIOUS | 10 | With 19 Across, the Orient |
| 38% | IONIC | 5 | With 19 Across, compound connection |
| 38% | BHUT | 4 | With 18 Across, plant also known as the ghost pepper |
| 38% | EMMY | 4 | With 18 Across, one up for a prestigious television honor |
| 38% | DAIRY | 5 | With 19 Across, milking workers, quaintly |
| 38% | BOSTON | 6 | With 32-Across, team that 18-Across played for his whole 19-year professional career |
| 37% | HAPPYXMAS | 9 | With 18 Across, optimistic carol by John Lennon and Yoko Ono |
| 37% | MISS | 4 | With 19 Across, a certain pageant winner |
| 37% | DUST | 4 | Found us toying with soot |
| 37% | JOE | 3 | With 18 Across, 46th male President of the United States of America |
| 36% | ETTU | 4 | Phrase associated with the 18 Across |
| 36% | TRIKES | 6 | Toys "R" Us goods |
| 36% | LONGS | 5 | With 18-Across, desires |
| 36% | SETS | 4 | With 18-Across, corrects |
| 36% | LETTHEM | 7 | With 19 Across, phrase wrongly attributed to Marie Antoinette |
| 36% | PEPPER | 6 | With 19 Across, sometime love interest of Tony Stark |
| 35% | HASTA | 5 | With 18-Across, Tijuana goodbye |
| 35% | SODA | 4 | With 18-Across, carbonated drink |
| 35% | BONING | 6 | With 18-Across, studying hard |
| 35% | BAD | 3 | With 18-Across, no-goodnik |