| 100% | HUCK | 4 | With 19-Across, pal of Tom Sawyer |
| 59% | PEPPER | 6 | With 19 Across, sometime love interest of Tony Stark |
| 56% | KAMALA | 6 | With 19 Across, first female Vice President of the United States of America |
| 53% | PAULA | 5 | With 19-Across, coauthor of 57-Across |
| 52% | LAKE | 4 | With 19-Across, borderer of four states |
| 52% | POLY | 4 | With 19-Across, domain of civics, in brief |
| 52% | LOTS | 4 | With 19-Across, a pillar of the Bible |
| 51% | MEDICAL | 7 | With 37 Across, health-care jobs of 19 and 49 Across |
| 51% | PER | 3 | With 19-Across, Norwegian author of "Out Stealing Horses" |
| 50% | ELECTRIC | 8 | With 19-Across, modes of transport that run on juice |
| 49% | SID | 3 | Half-brother of Tom Sawyer |
| 49% | MYSTERIOUS | 10 | With 19 Across, the Orient |
| 49% | IONIC | 5 | With 19 Across, compound connection |
| 48% | DAIRY | 5 | With 19 Across, milking workers, quaintly |
| 48% | MARKTWAIN | 9 | Author of Tom Sawyer |
| 48% | TWAIN | 5 | Creator of Tom Sawyer |
| 48% | HUCK | 4 | Literary pal of Tom |
| 48% | BUTDOCTOR | 9 | With 14 and 19 Across, punchline of a joke about a clown |
| 47% | MISS | 4 | With 19 Across, a certain pageant winner |
| 47% | SID | 3 | Half brother of Tom Sawyer |
| 47% | AUNT | 4 | ___ Polly (relative of Tom Sawyer) |
| 47% | TWAIN | 5 | Mark ___, creator of Tom Sawyer |
| 47% | RENTS | 5 | Does business with 19 Across |
| 47% | FINN | 4 | Pal of Sawyer |
| 47% | MARKTWAIN | 9 | Southern US author of Tom Sawyer |
| 47% | HUCKFINN | 8 | Tom Sawyer’s pal |
| 46% | THINK | 5 | With 19-Across, reconsider ... or a hint to the starts of the five starred clues |
| 46% | KLING | 5 | With 19-Across, its high council meets in the Great Hall of the First City |
| 46% | LETTHEM | 7 | With 19 Across, phrase wrongly attributed to Marie Antoinette |
| 46% | TWAIN | 5 | Mark ___, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" author |