| 100% | THE | 3 | With 18-Across, TV program to be hosted by James Corden in 2015 |
| 35% | WORLDSFAIR | 10 | International exposition that has been hosted by the United States in 18-Across, 28-Across, and 32-Across (2 wds.) |
| 31% | ELLIS | 5 | Ruth —, last woman to be executed in Britain portrayed by Miranda Richardson in 1985 biopic Dance with a Stranger |
| 30% | CAPTAIN | 7 | With 18-Across, 29-Across hero clad in red, white, and blue, played by Chris Evans |
| 29% | JUST | 4 | With 18-Across, "To be on the safe side ..." |
| 29% | LARGERTHANLIFE | 14 | "Millennium" Top 40 single by 47-Across with the lyrics "There are prices to fame alright / All of our time spent in flashes of light" (3 wds.) |
| 29% | ADUE | 4 | To be sung by two, in music |
| 29% | OVERHEELS | 9 | To be head __ in love with someone |
| 29% | ADJOIN | 6 | To be in close contact with, affixed |
| 29% | THEDATINGGAME | 13 | Matchmaking TV program (1965-1999) created by 18-Across: 3 wds. |
| 29% | IKEA | 4 | Company that was the first in the U.S. to air a TV ad with a gay couple (1994) |
| 29% | MAGGIENELSON | 12 | Her 2009 book opens, “Suppose I were to begin by saying I had fallen in love with a color” |
| 29% | CAHOOTS | 7 | To be in __ with someone is to plot together |
| 28% | GRANDFATHER | 11 | What 18-Across is, to the other protagonist, Morty Smith, in "Rick and Morty" |
| 28% | FINALFRONTIER | 13 | With "The," what "space" is, in the intro to 5-/58-Across: 2 wds. |
| 28% | BASEBALL | 8 | With 30-Across, title soon to be held by Rob Manfred |
| 28% | SOLOMON | 7 | With 18-Across, free New York black man abducted into slavery whose true story is told in "12 Years a Slave" |
| 28% | INVESTIGATION | 13 | "CSI: ___," with 18-Across, the name of a TV show Liev Schreiber guest-starred in, also starring Laurence Fishburne |
| 28% | ESPY | 4 | Award show hosted by LeBron James in 2007 |
| 28% | MRINBETWEEN | 11 | Person not to be messed with, in song |
| 28% | LURCH | 5 | Bad thing to be left in, with "the" |
| 28% | FBIAGENTS | 9 | Govt. employees encoded by the nine other longest across entries in this puzzle ... and who might be called in to decode them |
| 28% | PANAM | 5 | It was flown by James Bond in "Dr. No" |
| 28% | THEVOICE | 8 | American reality show hosted by Carson Daly, which works in a format similar to 21-Across: 2 wds. |
| 27% | RICHARDROEPER | 13 | 18-Across' TV cohost from 1999 to 2006 (he said working with 18-Across was "like winning the movie lottery every week"): 2 wds. |
| 27% | LISBETH | 7 | Salander played by 18-Across in "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" |
| 27% | ARSENIOHALL | 11 | TV host who starred in "Coming to America" |
| 27% | EYE | 3 | With 65-Across, what the last words of 18-, 35- and 56-Across are to each other |
| 27% | LASTSONG | 8 | Novel by Nicholas Sparks about a 17 year old teen who is sent to stay with her father in the summer, "The ___": 2 wds. |
| 27% | JOYCE | 5 | With 39-Across, character played by 18-Across in "Stranger Things" |