| 100% | PEARL | 5 | With 28-Down, Oahu feature |
| 54% | IPSO | 4 | With 28-Down, logician's phrase |
| 54% | LONE | 4 | With 28-Down, a 1996 western |
| 54% | END | 3 | With 28-Down, Anthony Hopkins film |
| 54% | BEAR | 4 | With 28-Down, persevere despite hardship |
| 53% | OLE | 3 | With 28-Down, a university in Dixie |
| 53% | HAVETUX | 7 | With 28-Down, 37-Across's autobiography |
| 53% | MARY | 4 | With 28-Down, Abe Lincoln's bride |
| 53% | BORDER | 6 | With 28-Down, theme of this puzzle |
| 53% | ANTONIN | 7 | With 28-Down, a Supreme Court justice |
| 52% | OLEO | 4 | With 28-Down, butterlike product of beef fat |
| 52% | AFTER | 5 | With 28-Down, disagreeable quality of diet sodas |
| 52% | DAILY | 5 | With 1-Down, "Jeopardy!" feature |
| 51% | METE | 4 | 28-Down, with "out" |
| 51% | TEX | 3 | With 28-Down, rhyming cuisine from the southwestern US |
| 51% | ANDY | 4 | With 28-Down, noted 20th-century American artist, informally |
| 49% | ELLEN | 5 | With 28-Down, newswoman who founded a college in Claremont, Calif. |
| 49% | SRI | 3 | With 28-Down, its flag has a lion holding a sword |
| 47% | KOI | 3 | With 53-Down, decorative garden feature |
| 47% | LARRYTHE | 8 | With 28-Down, voice of Mater in the three "Cars" movies: 2 wds. |
| 46% | BEFORE | 6 | With 3-Down, features of some ads |
| 46% | ROSES | 5 | 28 Down group |
| 45% | IONIC | 5 | With 44-Down, features of some Greek architecture |
| 45% | BORN | 4 | With 28-Across, schlemiels |
| 43% | SIT | 3 | With 28-Across, some protests |
| 43% | PIRATES | 7 | With 28-Across, treasure locator |
| 43% | YEAR | 4 | With 28-Across, late December |
| 43% | WORK | 4 | With 28-Across, tireless sort |
| 43% | THE | 3 | With 28-Across, popular retailer |
| 43% | DEAR | 4 | With 28-Across, letter opener |