| 100% | SPIRITOF | 8 | With 19-Across, U.S.C.'s marching band |
| 62% | TWO | 3 | With 19-Across, U.S. representative's term |
| 50% | BASS | 4 | With 21-Across, marching band instrument |
| 48% | DUEPROCESS | 10 | Heart of the U.S. legal system, with roots in the 19-Across |
| 48% | MYSTERIOUS | 10 | With 19 Across, the Orient |
| 48% | IONIC | 5 | With 19 Across, compound connection |
| 47% | ELE | 3 | With 18- & 19-Across, Toys "R" Us department |
| 47% | DAIRY | 5 | With 19 Across, milking workers, quaintly |
| 46% | NODOUBT | 7 | U.S. rock band with lead vocalist Gwen Stefani |
| 46% | MISS | 4 | With 19 Across, a certain pageant winner |
| 46% | RENTS | 5 | Does business with 19 Across |
| 45% | LETTHEM | 7 | With 19 Across, phrase wrongly attributed to Marie Antoinette |
| 45% | PEPPER | 6 | With 19 Across, sometime love interest of Tony Stark |
| 45% | SOUSAPHONE | 10 | Marching band debut, c. 1906 |
| 44% | DRUM | 4 | Marching band instrument with sticks |
| 44% | TENOR | 5 | Band instrument, with 72 Across |
| 44% | UTEP | 4 | Sch. with a view across the U.S.-Mexican border |
| 44% | PROTESTS | 8 | Events with marching bands? |
| 43% | UNOFFICIALSTART | 15 | With 55 Across, what 19 Across signifies |
| 43% | RICHARD | 7 | With 19 Across, billionaire who took a notable vacation in July 2021 |
| 42% | IVAN | 4 | With 21-Across, U.S. Open champ of 1985-87 |
| 42% | THE | 3 | With 19-Down, "Our Lips Are Sealed" band |
| 42% | USC | 3 | Sch. with a noted marching band |
| 42% | KAMALA | 6 | With 19 Across, first female Vice President of the United States of America |
| 42% | RONALD | 6 | With 19 Across, leader portrayed by Alan Rickman in "Lee Daniels' The Butler" |
| 41% | COLDHEARTED | 11 | Merciless "M*A*S*H" medic, with 19-Across? |
| 41% | THE | 3 | With 22-Across, Jim Morrison's band |
| 41% | EZRAKLEIN | 9 | Co-author with Derek Thompson of 19 Across |
| 40% | HARDLY | 6 | With 19-Across, seldom |
| 40% | ERE | 3 | With 19-Across, heretofore |