| 100% | ANG | 3 | With 18-Across, "Sense and Sensibility" director |
| 61% | HAPPYXMAS | 9 | With 18 Across, optimistic carol by John Lennon and Yoko Ono |
| 60% | WOODY | 5 | With 35-Across, "Blue Jasmine" director who wrote and directed 18-Across |
| 58% | ANGLEE | 6 | "Sense and Sensibility" director |
| 58% | ANG | 3 | "Sense and Sensibility" director ___ Lee |
| 58% | ANGLEE | 6 | "Sense and Sensibility" director, 1995 |
| 58% | ANG | 3 | "Sense and Sensibility" director Lee |
| 57% | ANGLEE | 6 | "Sense and Sensibility" director: 2 wds. |
| 56% | ANG | 3 | Emma's ''Sense and Sensibility'' director |
| 52% | SCOTT | 5 | With 18-Across, author of "Presumed Innocent" and "The Last Trial" |
| 52% | ANGLEE | 6 | Award-winning director of Sense and Sensibility |
| 50% | EMMATHOMPSON | 12 | Sense and Sensibility (1996), Howards End (1993) |
| 50% | CONTENT | 7 | With 18 Across, many an internet celebrity |
| 50% | LEONARD | 7 | With 18 Across, recipient of the comment |
| 49% | CARRIE | 6 | With 18-Across and 21-Down, National American Woman Suffrage Association president starting in 1900 |
| 48% | EVER | 4 | With "and" and 18-Across, "on occasion" |
| 48% | CAPTAIN | 7 | With 18-Across, 29-Across hero clad in red, white, and blue, played by Chris Evans |
| 47% | BHUT | 4 | With 18 Across, plant also known as the ghost pepper |
| 47% | EMMY | 4 | With 18 Across, one up for a prestigious television honor |
| 46% | JUNEIS | 6 | With 4 Down, 26 Across, and 18 Down, "Carousel" song famously slaughtered by Leslie Uggams |
| 46% | THEFIRST | 8 | With 59-Across, 18-Down and 18-Across, what these answers show |
| 46% | NONEOFTHEMIS | 12 | With 62-Across, surprising fact about 18-, 24-, 33- and 41-Across |
| 46% | SILVER | 6 | With 32-Across, 1976 movie that starred 18-Across and Richard Pryor |
| 46% | DASHWOOD | 8 | Elinor —, protagonist of 1811 Jane Austen novel Sense and Sensibility |
| 46% | JOE | 3 | With 18 Across, 46th male President of the United States of America |
| 45% | HOME | 4 | With 18- and 19-Across, classic song that starts "'Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam" |
| 44% | RELAY | 5 | With 18-Down, what has four legs and sprints? |
| 44% | UNITED | 6 | With 43-Across, America ... or what 18-, 23-, 53- and 63-Across contain, briefly |
| 44% | DIONNEWARWICK | 13 | Singer with song titles at 16-, 18-, 23- and 35-/38-Across |
| 43% | COMIC | 5 | With 84 Across, Gilbert and Sullivan specialty |