| 100% | MARDI | 5 | With 27-Across, Lent preceder |
| 68% | MARDI | 5 | With 18-Across, Lent preceder |
| 66% | BETWEENAROCK | 12 | With 27 Across, dilemma-bound |
| 65% | SANTA | 5 | With 27 Across, one gifted guy? |
| 60% | VOLODYMYR | 9 | With 27 Across, Time's Person of the Year of 2022 |
| 59% | MONO | 4 | With 27 Across, what 1 Across/5 Across is accused of becoming |
| 58% | GLASS | 5 | With 27 Across, 2022 film whose title was inspired by a Beatles song |
| 55% | GOBLIN | 6 | With 27 Across, Oxford's Word of the Year for 2022, defined as self-indulgent behavior |
| 55% | WHITE | 5 | With 27 Across, 2022 film whose plot features an Ohio train derailment that released hazardous chemicals |
| 55% | SAY | 3 | With 27-Across, get hitched |
| 55% | SHEET | 5 | With 27-Across, slippery hazard |
| 54% | THECATCHER | 10 | With 27-Across, 50-Across classic |
| 54% | SEEYOU | 6 | With 27-Across, holiday celebrators' farewell |
| 54% | WHATSBLACKWHITE | 15 | With 27-Across, an old riddle |
| 54% | LIZ | 3 | With 27-Across, "30 Rock" role |
| 53% | STEPHEN | 7 | With 49 Across, author of 27/38/47 Across |
| 53% | PULL | 4 | With 27-Across, close with a handle |
| 53% | ARMY | 4 | With 27-Across, Fort Lee, e.g. |
| 53% | BEAR | 4 | With 27-Across, it collapsed in 2008 |
| 52% | STAR | 4 | With 27-Across, franchise with droids and Darths |
| 52% | LAILA | 5 | With 27-Across, female boxer who retired undefeated |
| 52% | CLEVER | 6 | Too __ (with 27 Across, overly shrewd) |
| 51% | HITTING | 7 | With 27-Across, record-setting achievement of 62-Across |
| 51% | BLACK | 5 | With 27-Across, one who's into heavy metal? |
| 51% | SOMETHING | 9 | With 27-Down, song from 36-Across |
| 50% | ROB | 3 | With 27-Across, what you might do "to pay Paul" |
| 50% | CONTINUEDONNEXT | 15 | With 27-Down, like 10-Across and others |
| 50% | WHATISA | 7 | With 27- and 35-Across, a Halloween riddle |
| 49% | NOT | 3 | With 36 Across, ''Unacceptable'' |
| 49% | YOUCANTMAKE | 11 | With 36 Across, ''Really!'' |