| 100% | RUSHINORTHODOX | 14 | With 23-Down, hurryin' fathers? |
| 76% | ROAMINCATHOLIC | 14 | With 23-Down, travelin' fathers? |
| 55% | SEA | 3 | With 23-Down, treasure hunters |
| 55% | HEAD | 4 | With 23-Down, deli product |
| 55% | TIC | 3 | With 23-Down, popular mints |
| 55% | LETS | 4 | With 23-Down, chow line |
| 55% | HEAR | 4 | With 23-Down, listen to |
| 54% | DES | 3 | With 23-Down, capital of Iowa |
| 54% | ANG | 3 | With 23-Down, "Brokeback Mountain" director |
| 54% | MANI | 4 | With 23-Down, combo beauty treatment |
| 53% | IRENE | 5 | With 23-Down, "Zorba the Greek" actress |
| 53% | CARL | 4 | With 23-Down, "Pale Blue Dot" author |
| 52% | LAILA | 5 | With 119 Down, boxing champ with a boxing champ father |
| 52% | HOKEY | 5 | With 23-Down, what "it's all about"? |
| 52% | TOUR | 4 | With 23-Down, leader of a sightseers' group |
| 52% | THE | 3 | With 23-Down, a person's soul mate |
| 48% | HUMANBEINGS | 11 | Creatures with 23 pairs of 25-Down |
| 48% | DISCOVERING | 11 | With 23-Down, what 27-Across/32-Down is often credited with |
| 48% | TED | 3 | With 23-Down, Josh Radnor character on "How I Met Your Mother" |
| 47% | PATTI | 5 | With 23-Down, former First Daughter who wrote 15-Across and 46-Across |
| 46% | ARLO | 4 | With 23-Across, singer of the song referenced at 6-Down |
| 46% | KING | 4 | With 2-Down, a famous stage father |
| 46% | AVIEWFROM | 9 | With 23-Down, Arthur Miller play set in a Brooklyn waterfront neighborhood: 3 wds. |
| 45% | FINALMAJORWORKOF | 16 | With 43-Down, what 23-/29-Across was |
| 44% | BEET | 4 | With 23-Across, crimson |
| 44% | WEE | 3 | With 23-Across, modicum |
| 44% | BACK | 4 | With 23-Across, retreat |
| 43% | TEX | 3 | With 23-Across, popular cuisine |
| 43% | THER | 4 | With 23-Across, Steinbeck opus |
| 43% | SILICA | 6 | With 23-Across, adsorbent colloid |