| 100% | ABRIEF | 6 | With 38 and 47 Across, best-seller written by 24/49 Across |
| 46% | FITOR | 5 | With 47-Across, 1978 Covert Bailey best seller on exercise and diet |
| 46% | PATRICIA | 8 | With 38-Across, bestselling novelist who wrote 15-Across, 30-Across, and 47-Across |
| 44% | CHILDSTOYS | 10 | Bearers of a phrase suggested by saying the starts of 17-, 24-, 38- and 49-Across |
| 44% | PRESIDENT | 9 | Title held by the people who lent their names to 17-, 24-, 38- and 49-Across |
| 40% | STOPPINGBYWOODS | 15 | With 38-Across, poem by 24-Down |
| 40% | EARTHIN | 7 | With 24 Across, 1992 best-seller |
| 40% | LITTLEGIRLS | 11 | What the starts of 16-, 24-, 38- and 47-Across make? |
| 39% | BYE | 3 | With 38 and 39 Across, NSYNC hit of 2000 |
| 38% | KILLERSOF | 9 | With 24- and 28-Across, 2023 film directed by Martin Scorsese |
| 38% | WHATA | 5 | With 15 and 20 Across, a 1967 song sung by Louis Armstrong in "Good Morning, Vietnam" |
| 38% | NOBEL | 5 | With 32- and 38-Across, 2014 honor won by the writer of 15-Across |
| 38% | DONOTFORSAKE | 12 | With 49-Across, theme song of 37- and 38-Across |
| 38% | ELEMENTARY | 10 | With 24-Across, well-known line of literature and film |
| 38% | EARLYDAYS | 9 | Beginning stages, and what the starts of 16-, 24-, 38-, and 47-Across literally are? |
| 38% | BEARSFRUIT | 10 | Pays off ... or a hint to the starts of 17-, 24-, 38-, and 47-Across |
| 38% | VOLLEYBALL | 10 | Sport hinted at by the ends of 17-, 24-, 36- and 47-Across |
| 38% | SEAN | 4 | With 38-Across, Best Actor Oscar winner for both "Mystic River" and "Milk" |
| 37% | HEARTBROKEN | 11 | Despondent ... as progressively suggested by 17-, 24-, 38- and 48-Across? |
| 37% | TYPEWRITER | 10 | With 49-Across, where 17-, 24- and 39-Across are seen |
| 37% | ROUGH | 5 | With 38- and 49-Across, unrefined, and a hint to what can precede this puzzle's border words |
| 37% | ELEMENTSOFSTYLE | 15 | Principles for good prose in a classic writing guide by Strunk & White … or a hint to the wardrobe assembled at 17-, 25-, 47- and 57-Across |
| 37% | DOSOMETHING | 11 | Call to action at times heard after the starts of 16-, 24-, 38- and 47-Across |
| 37% | WATERCYCLE | 10 | Natural process suggested by the starts of 17-, 24-, 26-, 45- and 47-Across |
| 37% | BESTPICTURE | 11 | What the starts of 18-, 24-, 38- and 49-Across each won |
| 37% | ALAN | 4 | With 24-Across, Emmy winner for acting, writing and directing |
| 37% | MARKET | 6 | Open place with buyers and sellers of goods |
| 37% | PRECIOUS | 8 | With 38-Across, young female detective in books written by Alexander McCall Smith since 1998 |
| 36% | TIC | 3 | With 24- and 45-Across, game represented by this completed puzzle's grid |
| 36% | HUNTING | 7 | Good Will __, written by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon |