| 100% | HAM | 3 | With 35 Across, common lunchbox contents |
| 51% | RAT | 3 | With 35 Across, grind |
| 46% | THESHOEISONTHE | 14 | With 35 Across, "I've turned the tables on you" |
| 45% | HINT | 4 | With 35-Down, some common attire for cooks |
| 44% | CANTWALKAND | 11 | With 35 and 56 Across, is quite uncoordinated |
| 42% | HOT | 3 | With 35-Across, Jacuzzi |
| 42% | TIRES | 5 | With 35-Across, exhausts |
| 42% | SAL | 3 | With 35-Across, a cleanser |
| 42% | VARSITY | 7 | With 35-Across, 1927 melody |
| 42% | MIDORI | 6 | With 35-Across, Japanese Olympian |
| 42% | LAO | 3 | With 35-Across, Taoism founder |
| 42% | MEMORIAL | 8 | With 35-Across, May celebration |
| 41% | WON | 3 | With 35-Across, Kind of record |
| 41% | LAKE | 4 | With 35-Across, view from Cleveland |
| 41% | ICANDO | 6 | With 35-Across, self-confident words |
| 41% | KISS | 4 | With 35-Across, Cole Porter musical |
| 41% | ARCTIC | 6 | With 35-Across, North Pole setting |
| 40% | CALLA | 5 | With 35-Across, a sign of spring |
| 40% | ANIMAL | 6 | With 56-Across, lunchbox snacks ... or a hint to the black squares before 18-, 29-, 35- and 45-Across? |
| 39% | DIVINE | 6 | With 35-Across, source of 15-/23-Across |
| 39% | HOWDOWEGET | 10 | With 35-Across, spy's question concerning wiretaps |
| 39% | REDUCEDISTANCE | 14 | With 35-Across, highway sign meaning "slow down" |
| 39% | GAL | 3 | With 35-Across, actress who plays Wonder Woman |
| 39% | DUCHESSOF | 9 | With 35-Across, title for 15-Across: 2 wds. |
| 38% | DONNA | 5 | With 35-Across, Mississippi-born author of "The Goldfinch" |
| 38% | JAMES | 5 | With 35-Across, medical school dropout who wrote "Ulysses" |
| 38% | ONE | 3 | With 10-Across, common combination |
| 38% | BILLY | 5 | With 35-Across, "Caribbean Queen" singer with a "watery" name |
| 38% | THE | 3 | With 35-Across, stage name of U2's lead guitarist |
| 38% | SNO | 3 | With 35-Across, a type of winter off-road vehicle |