| 100% | PAC | 3 | With 22-Across, longtime West Coast N.C.A.A. conference |
| 58% | PAC34 | 5 | West Coast N.C.A.A. conference that lost 10 teams in 2024 |
| 49% | INNOUT | 6 | West Coast burger chain with a "not-so-secret menu" |
| 46% | AXL | 3 | With 71-Across, rocker whose first name anagrams a West Coast airport code |
| 46% | SANTAMONICA | 11 | West Coast city with a popular pier |
| 43% | LALAKERS | 8 | West Coast N.B.A. team that acquired Luka Dončić in a blockbuster February trade |
| 40% | HANDSAMERICA | 12 | With 1 Across, charity event involving a coast-to-coast human chain |
| 40% | MAI | 3 | With 22-Across, order at a tiki bar |
| 40% | ASCOT | 5 | With 22-Across, neckwear also called a cravat |
| 40% | MIAMI | 5 | With 22-Across, a Florida county |
| 40% | WOO | 3 | With 22-Across, a triumphant cry |
| 40% | UCLA | 4 | West Coast school often considered a "Public Ivy": Abbr. |
| 39% | STEVEN | 6 | With 22-Across, actor with a black belt in aikido |
| 38% | PERU | 4 | Pacific Coast country with a 22,000-foot peak |
| 38% | ELEC | 4 | With 20 Across, a "current" college course: abbr. |
| 37% | OPERATION | 9 | With 22-Across, a WWII deception made into a 2022 Colin Firth movie |
| 37% | JAY | 3 | With 22-Across, fourth in a series of five TV personalities (1992-2009) |
| 37% | EURO | 4 | Its symbol resembles a C with two lines across the center |
| 37% | BEWARETHE | 9 | With 22-Across, a timely warning from "Julius Caesar" by Shak. |
| 37% | UCLA | 4 | West Coast sch. with the fight song "Mighty Bruins" |
| 37% | TWAIN | 5 | With "the," East and West, in a Kipling ballad |
| 37% | OLY | 3 | Longtime West Coast brew, informally |
| 37% | YOUCANSAY | 9 | With 22 Across, "Hear, hear!" |
| 36% | UCLA | 4 | West Coast school with the fight song "Mighty Bruins": Abbr. |
| 36% | CRISIS | 6 | N.A.A.C.P. magazine, with "The" |
| 36% | ONEAL | 5 | N.B.A. star with size 22 shoes |
| 36% | ONEAL | 5 | N.B.A. great with size 22 shoes |
| 36% | NINER | 5 | West Coast N.F.L.'er |
| 36% | LARAM | 5 | West Coast N.F.L.'er |
| 36% | LARAM | 5 | West Coast N.F.L. player |