| 100% | IFORGOTTOWRITE | 14 | With 34-Across, a child's 12/24 lament |
| 49% | THESQUEAKYWHEEL | 15 | With 34-Across, a proverb |
| 47% | HAVINGAGOODTIME | 15 | With 34-, 43- and 58-Across, message on a tourist's postcard |
| 47% | ORE | 3 | With 34 Across, train hobbyist's buy |
| 46% | SANTA | 5 | With 34-Across, fellow with a sleigh |
| 46% | RINGO | 5 | With 34-Across, onetime Beatle who had a 1973 hit that shared 18-Across's title |
| 46% | THOUGHTYOU | 10 | With 34-Across, 2022 Morgan Wallen hit that's a tribute to his mother: 2 wds. |
| 46% | GOES | 4 | With 34-Across, protests peacefully, in a way |
| 45% | STAR | 4 | With 34-Down, a mariner's guide |
| 45% | WHAT | 4 | With 34-Across, question in a 2013 Ylvis song |
| 44% | LOOKWHATTHEYVE | 14 | Composer's lament (with 77 Across, a 1970 hit) |
| 44% | HAL | 3 | With 34-Across, 1982 A.L. r.b.i. leader |
| 44% | FREAKY | 6 | With 34-Across, 2003 body-switching comedy ... or a hint to what's in this puzzle's circled letters? |
| 44% | MICHELLE | 8 | With 35-Across, a member of Destiny's Child, or an actress in "Brokeback Mountain" |
| 43% | UTAH | 4 | With 20 Across, a Pac-12 school |
| 43% | BOPEEP | 6 | Children's character associated with a crook |
| 43% | RACHEL | 6 | With 34-Across, MSNBC host of a nightly news and opinion show |
| 43% | MAN | 3 | With 34-Across, American surrealist who created "Ingres's Violin," a photo of a woman resembling a violin from the back |
| 43% | RAGDOLL | 7 | Child's toy figure with a cloth body |
| 43% | ELMO | 4 | Children's TV character with a falsetto voice |
| 43% | HAROLD | 6 | Children's-book character with a purple crayon |
| 42% | GAR | 3 | 24-Across with a long nose |
| 42% | ERNIE | 5 | Children's TV character with a fondness for baths |
| 42% | HOPSCOTCH | 9 | Children's game with a stone and chalked squares |
| 42% | MEATBALLS | 9 | Children's book: Cloudy With a Chance of these |
| 42% | JAMES | 5 | With 34-Across, Ronald Reagan press secretary for whom a gun bill is named |
| 41% | HAYDNGOSEEK | 11 | Part of a children's game with the Father of the Symphony? |
| 41% | MANYARECOLD | 11 | With 106 Across, a restaurant's boast about its seafood filets? |
| 41% | MAURICESENDAK | 13 | Children's author/illustrator with a National Medal of Arts |
| 41% | OLLA | 4 | Type of 34-Across with a Spanish name |