| 100% | ACHIPOFF | 8 | With 37- and 43-Across, one who takes after dad |
| 53% | REMOVING | 8 | With 37-Across and 38-Down, step taken after an airline accident |
| 47% | SHANNEN | 7 | With 37-Across, actress who played 18-Across, 43-Across, and Prue Halliwell on "Charmed," and who turns 50 years old today |
| 42% | EROS | 4 | One who takes a bow before success rather than after? |
| 41% | MICHELLE | 8 | With 43-Across, actress who's played both Catwoman and the Wasp |
| 41% | ODDS | 4 | With 37- Across and 44-Down, miscellany |
| 41% | POET | 4 | One who works with meters and feet |
| 41% | MASON | 5 | One who works with stones and bricks |
| 41% | KICKBOXER | 9 | One who fights with fists and feet |
| 41% | POET | 4 | One who works with feet and meters |
| 41% | HATMAKERS | 9 | Ones who work with bowlers and boaters |
| 40% | ERIC | 4 | With 37-Across, actor and "Spamalot" writer who cocreated "Monty Python's Flying Circus" 50 years ago |
| 40% | DELLA | 5 | With 37-Across, "Touched by an Angel" actress who played a landlady on "Chico and the Man" |
| 40% | THOMAS | 6 | With 37-Across, inventor who held 1,093 US patents and is called "the Wizard of Menlo Park" |
| 39% | STAGEHAND | 9 | One who helps with props before and during a play |
| 39% | MEDICAL | 7 | With 37 Across, health-care jobs of 19 and 49 Across |
| 39% | OPTIMIST | 8 | One who identifies with the answers to the starred Across clues |
| 39% | NICHOLAS | 8 | With 37-Across, actor who stars in 49-Across as Neil Melendez and in "Being Mary Jane" as Orlando Lagos |
| 39% | JENNIFER | 8 | With 45-Across, "Silver Linings Playbook" Oscar winner who stars in 21-Across and 37-Across |
| 38% | MARY | 4 | With 43 Across, Supporting Actress (''Melvin and Howard'') |
| 38% | POLEVAULTER | 11 | One concerned with approach, take-off and landing |
| 38% | BORNWITHA | 9 | With 37- and 50-Across, privileged |
| 37% | IFYOUCHOKE | 10 | With 37- and 67-Across, a question |
| 37% | IWONDERWHERETHE | 15 | With 37- and 38-Across, a musing |
| 37% | IALWAYSTHOUGHTI | 15 | With 37- and 60-Across, a musing |
| 37% | HOWTOWINFRIENDS | 15 | With 37- and 61-Across, a 1936 title |
| 37% | EVERYSPRING | 11 | With 37- and 64-Across, a seasonal observation |
| 37% | PASTPERFORMANCE | 15 | With 37- and 57-Across, a common warning |
| 37% | CROSSWORDPUZZLE | 15 | With 37- and 56-Across, what this is |
| 36% | STRINGBEAN | 10 | One who's 6-Across and lean |