| 100% | LAO | 3 | With 35-Across, Taoism founder |
| 67% | RAT | 3 | With 35 Across, grind |
| 65% | HAM | 3 | With 35 Across, common lunchbox contents |
| 59% | CANTWALKAND | 11 | With 35 and 56 Across, is quite uncoordinated |
| 56% | HOT | 3 | With 35-Across, Jacuzzi |
| 56% | TIRES | 5 | With 35-Across, exhausts |
| 55% | UNIVERSITY | 10 | With 56 Across, school founded by 39 Across |
| 55% | SAL | 3 | With 35-Across, a cleanser |
| 55% | VARSITY | 7 | With 35-Across, 1927 melody |
| 55% | MIDORI | 6 | With 35-Across, Japanese Olympian |
| 55% | MEMORIAL | 8 | With 35-Across, May celebration |
| 54% | WON | 3 | With 35-Across, Kind of record |
| 54% | LAKE | 4 | With 35-Across, view from Cleveland |
| 54% | ICANDO | 6 | With 35-Across, self-confident words |
| 54% | KISS | 4 | With 35-Across, Cole Porter musical |
| 53% | CALLA | 5 | With 35-Across, a sign of spring |
| 52% | MAP | 3 | With 59 Across, what's found within many a legend |
| 52% | DIVINE | 6 | With 35-Across, source of 15-/23-Across |
| 52% | HOWDOWEGET | 10 | With 35-Across, spy's question concerning wiretaps |
| 52% | REDUCEDISTANCE | 14 | With 35-Across, highway sign meaning "slow down" |
| 52% | GAL | 3 | With 35-Across, actress who plays Wonder Woman |
| 51% | DUCHESSOF | 9 | With 35-Across, title for 15-Across: 2 wds. |
| 51% | DONNA | 5 | With 35-Across, Mississippi-born author of "The Goldfinch" |
| 50% | BILLY | 5 | With 35-Across, "Caribbean Queen" singer with a "watery" name |
| 50% | THE | 3 | With 35-Across, stage name of U2's lead guitarist |
| 50% | SNO | 3 | With 35-Across, a type of winter off-road vehicle |
| 50% | ROOKIE | 6 | With 35-Across, Major League player's first full year |
| 50% | IRENE | 5 | With 35-Across, player of Granny on “The Beverly Hillbillies” |
| 49% | LINDA | 5 | With 35-Across, actress who played Regan MacNeil in 18-Across |
| 49% | EDGAR | 5 | With 35-Across, painter whose art often depicted women at work |