| 100% | SIT | 3 | With 28-Across, some protests |
| 75% | SPEC | 4 | With 28-Across, some CIA business |
| 72% | STOP | 4 | With 28-Across, like some traffic |
| 65% | JUDITH | 6 | With 28 Across, "Ordinary People" author |
| 64% | GUESSWHOSCOMING | 15 | With 28 Across, a Kate Oscar film |
| 60% | TOUCH | 5 | With 28 Across, get offline ... and what 13 and 20 Across do? |
| 59% | STOCKING | 8 | With 14 Across, some Christmas gifts |
| 56% | BORN | 4 | With 28-Across, schlemiels |
| 55% | EXIT | 4 | With 15 Across, graduation requirement for some |
| 55% | POLKA | 5 | With 11 Across, design on some dresses |
| 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 |
| 55% | ITCHY | 5 | With 28-Across, allergy symptom |
| 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% | SAMGOLDWYN | 10 | With 28-Across, author of quip |
| 54% | CAPE | 4 | With 28-Across, Martin Scorsese film |
| 54% | TAI | 3 | With 28-Across, meditative exercise regimen |
| 54% | ITSA | 4 | With 28-Across, church meeting cry |
| 54% | ITA | 3 | Suffix with 28-Across |
| 54% | AERO | 4 | Prefix with 28-Across |
| 53% | IRON | 4 | With 59 Across, what's attached to some benches |
| 53% | BEVERLY | 7 | With 28-Across, a late, great entertainer |
| 53% | WAH | 3 | With 28-Across, sad trombone sound effect |
| 51% | REVENGEOF | 9 | With 15 Across, what today marks for some Star Wars aficionados |
| 51% | LIFEWITHOUT | 11 | With 65 Across, what some 1992 and '96 voters dreamed of? |