| 100% | AROLLINGSTONE | 13 | With 33-Across, aphorism |
| 81% | ERIE | 4 | With 33 Across, 1820s engineering marvel |
| 78% | JAMES | 5 | With 33 Across, ''The Postman Always Rings Twice'' author |
| 70% | SENT | 4 | With 33-Across, remitted |
| 68% | ICED | 4 | With 33-Across, summer cooler |
| 67% | THE | 3 | With 33-Across, Montreal's subway |
| 67% | RITEOF | 6 | With 33-Across, confirmation, e.g. |
| 67% | PIG | 3 | With 33-Across, ixnay or amscray |
| 67% | HOME | 4 | With 33-Across, Macaulay Culkin comedy |
| 67% | AHI | 3 | With 33-Across, deep-sea catch |
| 66% | FANFAREFORTHE | 13 | With 33 Across, P.D.Q. Bach piece with a lot of horn-blowing (and probably nose-blowing) |
| 66% | VOX | 3 | With 33-Across, opinions of the majority |
| 66% | CEELO | 5 | With 33-Across, "The Voice" vocal coach |
| 66% | INDEPENDEN | 10 | With 33-Across, exemplar of female empowerment |
| 66% | ANG | 3 | With 33-Across, “Life of Pi” director |
| 65% | FACE | 4 | With 33-Across, meeting with someone in person |
| 65% | THOMAS | 6 | With 33-Across, current star of 15-Across |
| 65% | STEVIE | 6 | With 33-Across, visually impaired singer of "Superstition" |
| 63% | ICOULDUSE | 9 | With 33-Across, 2017 Maren Morris hit: 3 wds. |
| 63% | WILLIE | 6 | With 33-Across, country singer born April 29, 1933 |
| 62% | GEORGIA | 7 | With 33-Across, painter with a museum in Santa Fe |
| 62% | WARREN | 6 | With 33-Across, he was Clyde in "Bonnie and Clyde" |
| 62% | SALLY | 5 | With 33-Across, actress who played Gidget from 1965-1966 |
| 62% | MAMMA | 5 | With 33-Across, musical set on the island of Kalokairi |
| 62% | LIONEL | 6 | With 33-Across, "Hello" singer and judge on "American Idol" |
| 62% | MARIE | 5 | With 33-Across, first woman to win a Nobel Prize |
| 62% | DONTTAKEANYOF | 13 | With 33-Down, Skeptic's advice ... or a "noteworthy" hint to seven Across answers in this puzzle |
| 61% | WINNIE | 6 | With 33-Across, Canadian fashion model who costars on 15-Across |
| 61% | MICHAEL | 7 | With 33-Across, one of the two singers on 15-Across |
| 61% | CHEESE | 6 | With 33-Across, fan of the N.F.L.'s Packers |