| 100% | NERVOUS | 7 | With 19-Across, a worrywart |
| 85% | MISS | 4 | With 19 Across, a certain pageant winner |
| 78% | RICHARD | 7 | With 19 Across, billionaire who took a notable vacation in July 2021 |
| 73% | LOTS | 4 | With 19-Across, a pillar of the Bible |
| 71% | NOTELL | 6 | With 19-Across, spot for a tryst |
| 70% | CARS | 4 | Literally, with 19-Across, a Western state capital |
| 70% | HOME | 4 | With 19-Across, where a baseball catcher is |
| 69% | ENTRANCE | 8 | With 19-Across, where to get on a freeway |
| 67% | MYSTERIOUS | 10 | With 19 Across, the Orient |
| 67% | IONIC | 5 | With 19 Across, compound connection |
| 66% | PADAM | 5 | With 19-Across, 2023 Kylie Minogue song whose title evokes a heartbeat |
| 66% | DAIRY | 5 | With 19 Across, milking workers, quaintly |
| 64% | RENTS | 5 | Does business with 19 Across |
| 64% | WHATEVER | 8 | With 19-Across, 2017 Imagine Dragons hit whose video features a water-filled room |
| 64% | BUTDOCTOR | 9 | With 14 and 19 Across, punchline of a joke about a clown |
| 63% | THINK | 5 | With 19-Across, reconsider ... or a hint to the starts of the five starred clues |
| 63% | WHATALICE | 9 | With 19-Across, 2009 Liane Moriarty novel about a mother who develops amnesia: 2 wds. |
| 62% | LETTHEM | 7 | With 19 Across, phrase wrongly attributed to Marie Antoinette |
| 62% | PEPPER | 6 | With 19 Across, sometime love interest of Tony Stark |
| 62% | NIECE | 5 | Girl with a 19-Across |
| 62% | OFFICESPACE | 11 | 19 Across for a business |
| 60% | BUT | 3 | With 75 Across, a gas |
| 59% | THESHAPE | 8 | With 19-Across, 2017 fantasy film featuring Octavia Spencer as a worker at a secret government lab: 2 wds. |
| 59% | LIME | 4 | With 56 Across, a summer cooler |
| 59% | KEY | 3 | With 52 Across, a Florida attraction |
| 59% | RON | 3 | With 136 Across, a rum brand |
| 59% | YES | 3 | With 89 Across, a confident assent |
| 59% | ONE | 3 | With 41 Across, a vitamin brand |
| 59% | LIFE | 4 | With 127 Across, a popular candy |
| 59% | DEMONSAREA | 10 | With 105 Across, a Halloween tune? |