| 100% | ELEMENTARY | 10 | With 24-Across, well-known line of literature and film |
| 60% | BEAMMEUPSCOTTY | 14 | Well-known line of TV and film |
| 48% | PLAYITAGAINSAM | 14 | Well-known line of film |
| 47% | BAZLUHRMANN | 11 | Australian director of 19- and 33-Across who's known for films with pop music soundtracks: 2 wds. |
| 46% | EARTHIN | 7 | With 24 Across, 1992 best-seller |
| 46% | ABRIEF | 6 | With 38 and 47 Across, best-seller written by 24/49 Across |
| 46% | BUD | 3 | Name of a son on both "Married... with Children" and "Father Knows Best" |
| 45% | KILLERSOF | 9 | With 24- and 28-Across, 2023 film directed by Martin Scorsese |
| 45% | ALLFORONE | 9 | With 24 Across, slogan of The Three Musketeers |
| 44% | KARA | 4 | With 24 Across, artist known for her silhouette work |
| 43% | GEORGE | 6 | With 24 Across, loser of the first really serious pie fight? |
| 43% | WEAREFAMILY | 11 | Sister Sledge classic whose second line is "I got all my sisters with me," and a hint to the starts of 17-, 24-, 39-, and 49-Across |
| 42% | BREVITYIS | 9 | With 24 and 15 Across, quote from "Hamlet" |
| 42% | BEASHAMEDTO | 11 | With 24-, 38-, 52-, and 61-Across, Horace Mann quote that's the motto of Antioch College |
| 42% | WEST | 4 | With 7- and 5-Across, 2021 film remake of a classic 1957 musical |
| 41% | BETWEEN | 7 | With 39-Across, a description of the answers inside 17-, 24-, 49- and 60-Across |
| 40% | BRATZ | 5 | Popular line of dolls with "Kidz" and "Babyz" spinoffs |
| 40% | ANDREW | 6 | With 40- and 51-Across, composer of 29-Down/60-Across, as well as 63-Across |
| 40% | RONALD | 6 | With 39-Across, film star and future US president who was president of SAG, 1959-1960 |
| 40% | TATI | 4 | Director and star of the 1958 Best Foreign Language Film |
| 40% | COUPLET | 7 | Two lines of poetry with the same rhythm and rhyme |
| 40% | WELCOMETOMY | 11 | With 59-Across, what one might say when entering the starts of 16-, 24-, and 38-Across? |
| 40% | THINWHITEDUKE | 13 | Alter ego of 24-/36-Across known for his cabaret wardrobe, with "the": 3 wds. |
| 39% | FIELDOFDREAMS | 13 | 1989 Best Picture nominee ... with a hint to 20-, 24-/27- and 32-/37-Across |
| 39% | CLYDE | 5 | Better known name of Mr. Barrow, murderer and bank robber of the thirties |
| 39% | THERESSOMETHING | 15 | With 97 Across, working title of a Gore Vidal film? |
| 39% | THOMAS | 6 | With 9 Down and 71 Across, source of quote |
| 39% | BOLO | 4 | With 24-Across, item of western haberdashery |
| 39% | AXL | 3 | Better known first name of William Bruce Bailey who made it big with GNR |
| 39% | THEFIRSTTIMEEVERI | 17 | With 127 Across, the best-selling hat song of 1972? |