| 100% | DAYS | 4 | With 32- and 33-Across, 15-Across's first full-length album |
| 49% | APR | 3 | First full mo. with 15 Across |
| 44% | SNOW | 4 | With 5-Across, heroine of Disney's first full-length animated movie |
| 43% | NOBEL | 5 | With 32- and 38-Across, 2014 honor won by the writer of 15-Across |
| 41% | BREVITYIS | 9 | With 24 and 15 Across, quote from "Hamlet" |
| 41% | TWOHUNDREDTH | 12 | With 41 and 55 Across, what 15 Across is |
| 40% | PATTI | 5 | With 23-Down, former First Daughter who wrote 15-Across and 46-Across |
| 39% | RADICAL | 7 | With 52-Across, 2024 25-Across album with the hits 15-Across, "Houdini," and "Training Season" |
| 39% | ROOKIE | 6 | With 35-Across, Major League player's first full year |
| 39% | ORIGINAL | 8 | With 32-Across, Adam and Eve's transgression |
| 39% | DEPECHEMODE | 11 | "Personal Jesus" band with the albums 15-Across and 26-Across (2 wds.) |
| 37% | EDSHEERAN | 9 | 15-Across, 28-Across, and 35-Across singer whose solo studio albums are all named with mathematical symbols (2 wds.) |
| 37% | REGGAE | 6 | Genre for 15-Across's next album, which will include 32-Across |
| 37% | DOUG | 4 | ___ Williams, first Black quarterback to start in, and win, a 15 Across |
| 37% | JOHN | 4 | With 32-Across, "SmackDown" superstar who's also a rapper and actor |
| 37% | JENNIFERLOPEZ | 13 | 15-Across and 27-Across singer who was the first woman honored with a "Billboard" Icon Award (2 wds) |
| 37% | USHER | 5 | American R&B singer-songwriter with the albums 10-Down, 15-Across, 30-Across, and 45-Across |
| 36% | FREETOBE | 8 | With 32-Across, album/book by 13-Across and friends that was turned into an Emmy-winning 1974 TV special: 3 wds. |
| 36% | BOND | 4 | Lead character's last name in 15-, 18-, 32-, and 44-Across |
| 35% | THENATIONAL | 11 | "Fake Empire" indie rock band who collaborated with 19-Across, 32-Across, and Sufjan Stevens on the 2023 album "First Two Pages of Frankenstein" (2 wds.) |
| 35% | COMETOTERMS | 11 | Reach an agreement ... and what the first words of 17, 32, and 45 Across are? |
| 35% | ZAKIYA | 6 | With 15 and 16 Across, writer with the 2021 debut novel "The Other Black Girl" |
| 35% | TOP | 3 | With 57-Across, action film starring 15-Across, 33-Across, and 48-Across that debuted 35 years ago this month (2 wds.) |
| 35% | ONA | 3 | With 32-Across, suddenly and without thinking |
| 35% | WHATA | 5 | With 15 and 20 Across, a 1967 song sung by Louis Armstrong in "Good Morning, Vietnam" |
| 34% | STATE | 5 | With 39 Across and 33 Down, what each syllable of the answer to each starred clue is |
| 34% | THANKU | 6 | “___, Next” (20-Across’s first No. 1 single and the title of her 2019 album) |
| 34% | ORANGEIS | 8 | With 33- and 52-Across, television series set in a women's prison: 2 wds. |
| 34% | BILLY | 5 | With 33-Across, Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart's defense lawyer in the musical "Chicago" |
| 34% | ORANGEIS | 8 | With 32- and 35-Across, Netflix original series starring Taylor Schilling: 2 wds. |