| 100% | FLYING | 6 | With 36-Down, creature voiced by Zach Braff in "Oz the Great and Powerful" |
| 36% | SAMRAIMI | 8 | "Oz the Great and Powerful" director |
| 36% | CROSS | 5 | With 36-Down, intersection ... as suggested by the circled letters in the middle of this puzzle? |
| 35% | RACHELWEISZ | 11 | "Oz the Great and Powerful" co-star |
| 35% | JAMESFRANCO | 11 | "Oz the Great and Powerful" co-star |
| 35% | SAM | 3 | "Oz the Great and Powerful" director Raimi |
| 35% | JAMES | 5 | "Oz the Great and Powerful" star Franco |
| 35% | RAIMI | 5 | "Oz the Great and Powerful" director Sam |
| 35% | MILA | 4 | "Oz the Great and Powerful" actress Kunis |
| 35% | MILA | 4 | Kunis of "Oz the Great and Powerful" |
| 35% | MILA | 4 | Actress Kunis of "Oz the Great and Powerful" |
| 34% | EMUS | 4 | Creatures in Oz with powerful kicks |
| 32% | YODA | 4 | Jedi trainer voiced by Frank Oz in the Star Wars series of films |
| 31% | THE | 3 | With 35- and 36-Across, second-largest galaxy in the Local Group |
| 31% | FOODFIGHT | 9 | Cafeteria combat epitomized by the actions in 17-, 36-, and 42-Across? |
| 30% | CAMOUFLAGE | 10 | "Trick" used by the creatures found in rows 3, 5, 11 and 13 |
| 30% | TEAPOT | 6 | Kitchen vessel voiced by Angela Lansbury in "Beauty and the Beast" |
| 30% | BIGFOOT | 7 | Creature played by both Andre the Giant and Ted Cassidy in "The Six Million Dollar Man" |
| 30% | LAWRENCE | 8 | With 42-Across, 1962 historical epic directed by David Lean and set in the Ottoman Empire |
| 30% | INASCRABBLEGAME | 15 | With 30- and 49-Across, test question to be answered by filling in the correct circle |
| 30% | TROLL | 5 | Tall creature with great strength that the "Harry Potter" trio encountered in a bathroom |
| 29% | DOC | 3 | Character voiced by Roy Atwell in 1937 animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs |
| 29% | SNEEZY | 6 | Character voiced by Billy Gilbert in 1937 animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs |
| 29% | BEN | 3 | With 36-Down, "Roots" star who portrayed the mayor of Cleveland on "Hot in Cleveland" |
| 29% | MICHELLE | 8 | With 36-Across, "The Greatest Showman" actress who plays Anne Weying in "Venom" |
| 29% | LEGALIZED | 9 | With 20 Across, what the people of AZ, NJ, MT, and SD voted for by proposition in 2020 |
| 29% | CONTRA | 6 | Run and gun video game published in 1988 by Konami with the characters Bill and Lance |
| 29% | MANDOLIN | 8 | "___ Rain," 1986 song by Bruce Hornsby and the Range with a string instrument in its title |
| 29% | HYENAS | 6 | Animals voiced by Whoopi Goldberg and Cheech Marin in "The Lion King" |
| 29% | MABARKER | 8 | Midwest woman with four gangster sons who was gunned down by the FBI in 1935: 2 wds. |