| 100% | DESKTOP | 7 | With 20-Across, pattern in back of a window |
| 49% | LEGALIZED | 9 | With 20 Across, what the people of AZ, NJ, MT, and SD voted for by proposition in 2020 |
| 48% | BSIDE | 5 | Something in back of a hit? |
| 46% | UTAH | 4 | With 20 Across, a Pac-12 school |
| 46% | FEESCHARGEDBYAN | 15 | With 53-Across, a daffynition of 20-Across |
| 46% | ELEC | 4 | With 20 Across, a "current" college course: abbr. |
| 45% | CLEVELAND | 9 | With 20 Across, baseball team name announced in July |
| 45% | OUNCE | 5 | One of 20 in a 6-Across |
| 45% | BUCKS | 5 | Milwaukee ___, NBA team with a 20-game winning streak in the regular season of 1970-71 |
| 44% | SOLONG | 6 | With 20 Across, "The Sound of Music" song |
| 44% | SLATS | 5 | Strips in front of a window? |
| 44% | DRIVE | 5 | With 6-Across, type of window at a fast food restaurant |
| 44% | SLATS | 5 | Strips in front of a window, perhaps |
| 44% | TENSE | 5 | In need of a back rub, say |
| 44% | WHATA | 5 | With 15 and 20 Across, a 1967 song sung by Louis Armstrong in "Good Morning, Vietnam" |
| 43% | ISLE | 4 | Bit of a 20 Across |
| 43% | JOHNNY | 6 | With 35-Across, third in a series of five TV personalities (1962-92) |
| 43% | JAY | 3 | With 22-Across, fourth in a series of five TV personalities (1992-2009) |
| 43% | STEVE | 5 | With 66-Across, first in a series of five TV personalities (1954-57) |
| 43% | JACK | 4 | With 65-Across, second in a series of five TV personalities (1957-62) |
| 43% | WHITE | 5 | With 7-Across, building on the back of a $20 bill |
| 43% | RODSTEWART | 10 | British singer/songwriter who had a Top 20 hit with his version of "Forever Young" in 1988 (2 wds.) |
| 43% | SKYLIGHT | 8 | A window in the roof of a building |
| 43% | MARGOT | 6 | With 20-Across, Australian actress who played a mass-produced doll in a 2023 blockbuster film |
| 43% | IRIS | 4 | Colorful part of a 20 Across |
| 42% | JULIUS | 6 | With 25-Across, speaker of the quote hidden in 20-, 37- and 53-Across |
| 42% | YOULL | 5 | With 21 Across, 3 Down, 8 Down, and 20 Down, response to Ralphie's request for a BB gun in "A Christmas Story" |
| 42% | SASH | 4 | Part of a window thrown up in "A Visit From St. Nicholas" |
| 42% | WHATSTHEMATTER | 14 | Question of concern, with a hint to 20-, 25- and 43-Across |
| 42% | OLDTOWNROAD | 11 | Lil Nas X hit with a record-setting 143 million US streams in the week of April 20, 2019: 3 wds. |