| 100% | ITCHY | 5 | With 28-Across, allergy symptom |
| 65% | JUDITH | 6 | With 28 Across, "Ordinary People" author |
| 59% | TOUCH | 5 | With 28 Across, get offline ... and what 13 and 20 Across do? |
| 56% | BORN | 4 | With 28-Across, schlemiels |
| 55% | SIT | 3 | With 28-Across, some protests |
| 55% | PIRATES | 7 | With 28-Across, treasure locator |
| 55% | YEAR | 4 | With 28-Across, late December |
| 55% | WORK | 4 | With 28-Across, tireless sort |
| 55% | THE | 3 | With 28-Across, popular retailer |
| 55% | DEAR | 4 | With 28-Across, letter opener |
| 54% | FRESH | 5 | With 28 Across, a new beginning (and with how 2020 has gone, we might all need it) |
| 54% | WHENINTHECOURSE | 15 | With 28-Across, a patriotic opening |
| 54% | MER | 3 | With 28-Across, ___ Caraïbes (Guadeloupe setting) |
| 54% | STOP | 4 | With 28-Across, like some traffic |
| 54% | SAMGOLDWYN | 10 | With 28-Across, author of quip |
| 54% | SPEC | 4 | With 28-Across, some CIA business |
| 54% | CAPE | 4 | With 28-Across, Martin Scorsese film |
| 54% | TAI | 3 | With 28-Across, meditative exercise regimen |
| 54% | ITA | 3 | Suffix with 28-Across |
| 54% | AERO | 4 | Prefix with 28-Across |
| 53% | BEVERLY | 7 | With 28-Across, a late, great entertainer |
| 53% | WAH | 3 | With 28-Across, sad trombone sound effect |
| 51% | YOKO | 4 | With 28-Across, Beatle spouse who owns imaginepeace.com |
| 51% | ADIOS | 5 | With 15 or 28 Across, oater farewell |
| 51% | HAVETUX | 7 | With 28-Down, 37-Across's autobiography |
| 51% | LOUISIANA | 9 | "Cajun cuisine" state associated with 28-Across |
| 49% | THE | 3 | With 28-Across, 2012 romantic drama that deals with memory loss |
| 49% | REBEL | 5 | With 28-Across, 1955 movie starring 15-Across and Natalie Wood |
| 49% | ERNIE | 5 | With 28-Across, winner of golf's 1997 U.S. Open |
| 49% | NOTEARSLEFT | 11 | With 28-Across, lead single from the album "Sweetener": 3 wds. |