| 100% | FLY | 3 | With 32-Across, sticky strip |
| 66% | COCA | 4 | With 32 Across, Pepsi competitor |
| 56% | TALL | 4 | With 32-Across, whopper |
| 55% | WOO | 3 | With 32-Across, joyful shout |
| 55% | SKELETON | 8 | With 32-Across, embarrassing secret |
| 54% | CORAL | 5 | With 32-Across, place to snorkel |
| 54% | ONE | 3 | With 32-Across, a ball game |
| 54% | TAPED | 5 | Fastened with sticky strips |
| 54% | TAPE | 4 | Strip with a sticky side used to pack items |
| 53% | ALLALONGTHE | 11 | With 32-Across, song by 56-Across |
| 53% | TENOR | 5 | With 32-Across, instrument played by Coltrane |
| 53% | THREEGUYSWALKED | 15 | With 32-Across, a hackneyed joke start |
| 53% | ARIANA | 6 | With 32-Across, lead singer of "Problem" |
| 53% | ETTA | 4 | With 32-Across, "Tell Mama" singer, 1967 |
| 53% | JANET | 5 | With 32-Across, author of "White Oleander" |
| 53% | ONA | 3 | With 32-Across, suddenly and without thinking |
| 53% | UBER | 4 | With 32-Across, popular food delivery app |
| 53% | PALE | 4 | With 32-Across, very hoppy brewpub beer |
| 52% | WAXED | 5 | Removed body hair with sticky substance and strips |
| 52% | SPRINGTIME | 10 | With 32-Across, 48-Across's pet project |
| 52% | CLARK | 5 | With 32-Across, actor who portrays 46-Across |
| 52% | NORMA | 5 | With 32-Across, Best Picture nominee of 1979 |
| 52% | OBIWAN | 6 | With 32-Across, mentor to Luke Skywalker: Hyph. |
| 52% | YOU | 3 | With 32-Across, a 1983 Lionel Richie hit |
| 52% | SHANE | 5 | With 32-Across, director of "Iron Man 3" |
| 52% | THE | 3 | With 32-Across, partisan divide, so to speak |
| 52% | ORIGINAL | 8 | With 32-Across, Adam and Eve's transgression |
| 51% | THE | 3 | With 32-Across, British band that created 31-Across |
| 51% | STEPHAN | 7 | With 32-Across, the lead singer of 14-Across |
| 51% | GERMAN | 6 | With 32-Across, study of Hesse and Mann, informally |