| 100% | BEET | 4 | With 23-Across, crimson |
| 81% | AMFM | 4 | With 23 Across, two-band device |
| 81% | BELL | 4 | With 23 Across, traditional school sound |
| 80% | SCONE | 5 | Pastry served with 23 Across |
| 70% | WEE | 3 | With 23-Across, modicum |
| 68% | TEX | 3 | With 23-Across, popular cuisine |
| 68% | THER | 4 | With 23-Across, Steinbeck opus |
| 68% | SILICA | 6 | With 23-Across, adsorbent colloid |
| 67% | CHOPPEDLI | 9 | With 23-Across, deli spread, literally |
| 67% | NORTH | 5 | With 23-Across, a guiding light |
| 67% | SEA | 3 | With 23-Across, Neptune, e.g. |
| 67% | MESS | 4 | With 23-Across, where campers eat |
| 67% | ABANDONALLHOPE | 14 | With 23-Across, famous "opening" line |
| 67% | REST | 4 | With 23-Across, picnic table locale |
| 67% | BREAKER | 7 | With 23-Across, CBer's opening |
| 66% | BARBARA | 7 | With 23-Across, a 1966 hit song |
| 66% | STAR | 4 | With 23-Across, winner of seven Oscars |
| 66% | PAD | 3 | With 23-Across, an Asian noodle dish |
| 66% | HANSCHRISTIAN | 13 | With 23-Across, giant in fairy tales |
| 66% | ENTER | 5 | With 23-Across, sign, as a contract |
| 65% | THELEGENDOF | 11 | With 23-Across, story about a noisy snorer? |
| 65% | ATHENS | 6 | With 23-Across, where the Hellenic Parliament sits |
| 65% | ANG | 3 | With 23-Across, "Life of Pi" Oscar winner |
| 63% | VELVET | 6 | With 23-Across, Lou Reed's band: 2 wds. |
| 63% | SPAR | 4 | 23-Across with a partner |
| 62% | ALBERT | 6 | With 23-Across, author of the general theory of relativity |
| 61% | JUSTGIVE | 8 | With 23-Across, 2013 Pink song that reached #1: 2 wds. |
| 60% | LITTLEGREYCELLS | 15 | What 23-Across thinks with |
| 60% | MURDER | 6 | With 23-Across, subtitle of the first season of "American Horror Story" |
| 57% | DISCOVERING | 11 | With 23-Down, what 27-Across/32-Down is often credited with |