| 100% | THE | 3 | With 35- and 36-Across, second-largest galaxy in the Local Group |
| 62% | ANDROMEDA | 9 | Largest galaxy in the Local Group |
| 45% | IFMY | 4 | With 36- and 43-Across, second line of the poem |
| 45% | JENNIFER | 8 | With 35-Across, actress who starred in both the "Hunger Games" and "X-Men" movie franchises |
| 45% | JUSTIN | 6 | With 35-Across, actor who plays Riley Poole in the "National Treasure" films and Disney+ series |
| 44% | JUSTIN | 6 | With 35-Across, "Yummy" singer who won the Pop Album of the Year Juno in 2011 and 2016 |
| 44% | HARRY | 5 | With 35-Across, longtime White Sox and Cubs sportscaster inducted into the Broadcasting Hall of Fame in 1994 |
| 43% | ERNIE | 5 | With 35-Across, baseball player who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2013 and died 1/23/15 |
| 42% | CHINESE | 7 | With 27- and 36-Across, object that floated over the US in early 2023 |
| 42% | WARREN | 6 | With 35-Across, actor who played Clyde, one of the title characters on the run in 1967's "Bonnie and Clyde" |
| 41% | SEVENWONDERS | 12 | With 51-Across and 15-Down, group in which [see circled letters] is the only one still largely intact |
| 41% | BESTPICTURE | 11 | With 35-Across, group of 10 movies hidden in the previous week of Atlantic minis, two in each puzzle. Can you find them all? |
| 39% | FLYING | 6 | With 36-Down, creature voiced by Zach Braff in "Oz the Great and Powerful" |
| 39% | ATLANTIC | 8 | Second largest ocean in the world |
| 39% | SARDINIA | 8 | Second largest island in the Mediterranean |
| 39% | SCOTLAND | 8 | Second largest country in the UK |
| 38% | FOLDTHROUGHEACH | 15 | With 67- and 97-Across, second part of the instructions |
| 38% | BUD | 3 | Dog included in the first automobile trip across the US, with Horatio Nelson Jackson and Sewall K. Crocker |
| 38% | SATURN | 6 | Second largest planet in the solar system |
| 38% | BRNO | 4 | Second largest city in the Czech Republic |
| 38% | INKSPOTS | 8 | Vocal group in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, with "The" |
| 38% | CANTWALKAND | 11 | With 35 and 56 Across, is quite uncoordinated |
| 38% | DONTBIGEMPTY | 12 | With 45 Across, a query put to Bob Hope in 1939's The Cat and the Canary |
| 37% | SOAPS | 5 | Galen of Pergamon described these in the 2nd century and stated the best were Germanic with Gaulish ones second best |
| 37% | AGES | 4 | With 36-Across, in the distant past |
| 37% | JAYJOHNSON | 10 | Head coach of 35-Across who won league championships with the University of Nevada in 2015 and the University of Arizona in 2021 (2 wds.) |
| 37% | KATEY | 5 | With 35-Across, "Sons of Anarchy" actress who plays the title character in "Rebel" |
| 37% | CHRIS | 5 | With 35-Across, actor who played Ransom in the 2019 murder mystery "Knives Out" |
| 37% | WESLEY | 6 | With 35-Across, "Blade" actor who played Noxeema the drag queen in "To Wong Foo ..." |
| 37% | TIMOTHEE | 8 | With 35-Across, "Little Women" actor who plays the lead character Paul Atreides in "Dune" |