| 100% | RATTLE | 6 | With 31-Across, 1988 documentary chronicling U2's North American tour of the previous year |
| 35% | SINGLE | 6 | With 31-Across, 2010 Grammy Song of the Year by Beyoncé |
| 33% | VOLODYMYR | 9 | With 27 Across, Time's Person of the Year of 2022 |
| 32% | WINNIE | 6 | With 31-Across, neighbor of Kevin Arnold on "The Wonder Years" |
| 31% | SNOWBERRY | 9 | North American shrub of the honeysuckle family with small pink flowers and white berries |
| 31% | GOBLIN | 6 | With 27 Across, Oxford's Word of the Year for 2022, defined as self-indulgent behavior |
| 30% | GREENDRAGON | 11 | North American perennial plant of the arum family with a very long white spadix |
| 29% | BARRY | 5 | With 31-Across, real name of The Flash, played by Grant Gustin on the CW's "The Flash" |
| 29% | STEVIE | 6 | With 31-Across, "Sir Duke" singer who won the 1977 Grammy for Producer of the Year, Non-Classical |
| 28% | XANDY | 5 | With 30-Across, what most numbers in the clues of this year's puzzles represent |
| 28% | ELANTRA | 7 | Hyundai compact named the 2021 North American Car of the Year |
| 28% | MONTHOFMAYBE | 12 | Part of the year that's filled with possibility? |
| 27% | PAWPAW | 6 | North American tree of the custard apple family |
| 27% | NANOOK | 6 | "___ of the North" (1922 documentary) |
| 27% | NANOOK | 6 | “— of the North” (1922 documentary) |
| 26% | IOMOTH | 6 | North American insect, the male of which is bright yellow in colour with a blue and pink eyelike spot on each hind wing |
| 26% | GOBLIN | 6 | With 13-Across, Oxford's 2022 Word of the Year |
| 26% | LLAMA | 5 | S. American mammal of the camel family |
| 26% | MAN | 3 | With 34-Across, American surrealist who created "Ingres's Violin," a photo of a woman resembling a violin from the back |
| 26% | NANOOK | 6 | __ of the North, infamous 1920s Arctic documentary |
| 26% | MILES | 5 | "___ Davis: Birth of the Cool," 2019 music documentary about an American Jazz musician's journey |
| 26% | CISCO | 5 | North American fish of the salmon family such as the longjaw — and shortnose — |
| 26% | ELM | 3 | American ___ (shade tree that's the state tree of North Dakota and Massachusetts) |
| 26% | ASSETMANAGER | 12 | Adviser concerned with the starts of 20-, 31- and 44-Across |
| 26% | INTOTHEWILD | 11 | 2007 American biographical survival film based on the travels of Christopher McCandless across North America, starring Emile Hirsch: 3 wds. |
| 26% | BIDEN | 5 | Time's 2020 Person of the Year, along with Harris |
| 25% | BEN | 3 | With 31-Down, star of "Night at the Museum" |
| 25% | ERIE | 4 | One of the North American Great Lakes |
| 25% | AREACODE | 8 | Product of the North American Numbering Plan |
| 25% | GROWING | 7 | With 41 Across, gradually-apparent problem ... and an explanation of the puzzle's circles? |