| 100% | BILL | 4 | With 29-Across, surprise in the mail |
| 60% | NAOMI | 5 | With 29-Across, Japanese tennis player who lit the Olympic cauldron in Tokyo in 2021 |
| 59% | ONEOFTHOSE | 10 | With 29 Across, what the meditating mechanic had? |
| 58% | SESAME | 6 | With 29-Across, children's show starring Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch that debuted in 1969 |
| 58% | SISSYSPACEK | 11 | Oscar-winning actress who starred with 29-Across in "The Old Man & the Gun" (2 wds.) |
| 57% | SISTER | 6 | With 29-Across, Pam Ferris character who was a midwife and nun in Nonnatus House on "Call the Midwife" |
| 57% | BARACK | 6 | With 29 Down, president born in the '60s |
| 56% | THOMAS | 6 | With 65 Across, the first to see his name ''up in lights'' (1881) |
| 55% | THESOLOMONRGUGGENHEIM | 21 | With 29-Across, holder of the works named in the nine starred clues, celebrating its 50th anniversary on 10/21/09 |
| 54% | CARE | 4 | ___ package (treats in the mail) |
| 54% | EMILY | 5 | With 29-Across, "Oppenheimer" actress who plays director Jody Moreno in "The Fall Guy" |
| 53% | SEND | 4 | Put in with the outgoing mail |
| 52% | WHATATIME | 9 | With 16 Across, exclamation from one living in the moment |
| 52% | SUNTAN | 6 | With 71 Across, what the people in this puzzle need? |
| 52% | SHESELLSCSHELLS | 15 | With 29-Across, a tongue twister, in brief |
| 52% | ROOTED | 6 | With 29-Across, like a deer in headlights |
| 51% | YDS | 3 | 49,325, for 29 Across through the air in his NFL career (abbr.) |
| 51% | NBA | 3 | Sports org. with 29 teams in the United States and one in Canada |
| 51% | ELF | 3 | Christmas figure seen in the answers to 18, 29, 46, and 60 Across |
| 51% | MARTY | 5 | With 29-Across, "Back to the Future" hero |
| 51% | DOLLYPARTON | 11 | Country music star who sang "Islands in the Stream" with 36-Across (2 wds.) |
| 51% | SENT | 4 | In the mail |
| 50% | LUCY | 4 | "___ in the Sky With Diamonds" (Beatles song) |
| 50% | MONT | 4 | __ Blanc (peak in the 35 Across) |
| 50% | NIL | 3 | Zero, in the 29-Across scores |
| 50% | ARMORCLAD | 9 | In the mail, say? |
| 50% | DRY | 3 | With 10 Across, what cannot be seen in the house after a tearjerker |
| 50% | RONALD | 6 | With 19 Across, leader portrayed by Alan Rickman in "Lee Daniels' The Butler" |
| 50% | BOOBY | 5 | With 127 Across, one of many devices thwarting the burglars in "Home Alone" |
| 49% | SOMEONES | 8 | "___ in the kitchen with Dinah" (old song lyric) |