| 100% | MYSTERIOUS | 10 | With 19 Across, the Orient |
| 68% | KAMALA | 6 | With 19 Across, first female Vice President of the United States of America |
| 68% | RONALD | 6 | With 19 Across, leader portrayed by Alan Rickman in "Lee Daniels' The Butler" |
| 62% | LOTS | 4 | With 19-Across, a pillar of the Bible |
| 60% | SNOW | 4 | With 19-Across, place for kids to play in the winter |
| 59% | IONIC | 5 | With 19 Across, compound connection |
| 58% | DAIRY | 5 | With 19 Across, milking workers, quaintly |
| 57% | MISS | 4 | With 19 Across, a certain pageant winner |
| 57% | RENTS | 5 | Does business with 19 Across |
| 57% | JUSTIN | 6 | With 19-Across, "SexyBack" singer featured on the 2013 Jay Z hit "Holy Grail" |
| 56% | THINK | 5 | With 19-Across, reconsider ... or a hint to the starts of the five starred clues |
| 56% | KLING | 5 | With 19-Across, its high council meets in the Great Hall of the First City |
| 55% | LETTHEM | 7 | With 19 Across, phrase wrongly attributed to Marie Antoinette |
| 55% | PEPPER | 6 | With 19 Across, sometime love interest of Tony Stark |
| 55% | SUPER | 5 | With 19-Across, series of arcade games that requires saving the Princess in the Mushroom Kingdom |
| 53% | SOAR | 4 | With 19-Down, rocket into the distance |
| 53% | RICHARD | 7 | With 19 Across, billionaire who took a notable vacation in July 2021 |
| 52% | MOELARRY | 8 | With 46 Across, the Three Stooges |
| 51% | KODAK | 5 | With 59 Across, the slogan's subject |
| 51% | CORED | 5 | With the 1 Across removed |
| 50% | GOODLUCKBABE | 12 | 19-Across song with the lyric "You'd have to stop the world to stop the feeling" |
| 50% | ROCKIN | 6 | With 16 Across, "___ the Christmas Tree" (Brenda Lee) |
| 50% | HALFLIFE | 8 | With 54 Across, the Atomic Cafe cereal combo? |
| 50% | UPPERLEFTTO | 11 | With 60 Across, the message's slanted place |
| 50% | OTIS | 4 | With 72 Across, the King of Elevator Music? |
| 50% | CHAIN | 5 | Store with locations across the country |
| 50% | HARDLY | 6 | With 19-Across, seldom |
| 50% | ERE | 3 | With 19-Across, heretofore |
| 50% | LAID | 4 | With 19-Across, attacked |
| 50% | FANTASTICFOUR | 13 | Superhero team with the physical features of 19-, 28-, 38-, and 46-Across |