| 100% | SANTA | 5 | With 34-Across, fellow with a sleigh |
| 62% | THESQUEAKYWHEEL | 15 | With 34-Across, a proverb |
| 60% | WHAT | 4 | With 34-Across, question in a 2013 Ylvis song |
| 59% | GOES | 4 | With 34-Across, protests peacefully, in a way |
| 58% | IFORGOTTOWRITE | 14 | With 34-Across, a child's 12/24 lament |
| 58% | HAL | 3 | With 34-Across, 1982 A.L. r.b.i. leader |
| 56% | DUPLEX | 6 | Type of apartment with a 34-Across |
| 56% | RACHEL | 6 | With 34-Across, MSNBC host of a nightly news and opinion show |
| 55% | OLLA | 4 | Type of 34-Across with a Spanish name |
| 54% | ORE | 3 | With 34 Across, train hobbyist's buy |
| 54% | JAMES | 5 | With 34-Across, Ronald Reagan press secretary for whom a gun bill is named |
| 54% | HAVINGAGOODTIME | 15 | With 34-, 43- and 58-Across, message on a tourist's postcard |
| 53% | LOT | 3 | Biblical fellow with a salty wife? |
| 53% | JEMANDTHE | 9 | With 34-Across, October 2015 fantasy film based on a line of toys: 3 wds. |
| 53% | AMERICAN | 8 | With 34-Across, 2007 Ridley Scott film starring Russell Crowe as a New Jersey detective |
| 53% | BILLIE | 6 | With 34-Across, "Bad Guy" singer who won a Best New Artist Grammy in 2020 |
| 53% | DUETOBUDGETCUTS | 15 | With 34-, 40- and 60-Across, a somber message for our loyal fans |
| 53% | PEANUT | 6 | With 34 Across, seller of small snacks in shells |
| 53% | TUNAFISH | 8 | With 46 Across, bread with a ''chunk light'' filling |
| 52% | CAGE | 4 | With 34-Down, part of a pound |
| 52% | RINGO | 5 | With 34-Across, onetime Beatle who had a 1973 hit that shared 18-Across's title |
| 52% | PEAR | 4 | With 63 Across, ''partridge in a'' place |
| 52% | CHIA | 4 | With 65 Across, morsel in a smoothie |
| 52% | FOLLOW | 6 | With 41 Across, be a snowbird, say |
| 52% | TALL | 4 | With 17 Across, whopper of a story |
| 52% | EVEN | 4 | With 34-Across, 50-50 chance ... or a hint to answering six equations in this puzzle |
| 52% | BRAD | 4 | With 34-Across, "Moneyball" actor who plays a rescuer of the novelist in "The Lost City" |
| 52% | THOUGHTYOU | 10 | With 34-Across, 2022 Morgan Wallen hit that's a tribute to his mother: 2 wds. |
| 52% | BRADLEYCOOPER | 13 | 34-Across costar who plays a defense contractor with a romantic conflict: 2 wds. |
| 52% | BUT | 3 | With 75 Across, a gas |