| 100% | JAMIE | 5 | With 4-Across, star of "Django Unchained" and "Soul" |
| 73% | JAMIEFOXX | 9 | Star of Django Unchained and Dreamgirls |
| 61% | GAL | 3 | With 4-Across, star of "Wonder Woman" |
| 58% | ALPACINO | 8 | Star of 4- and 37-Across |
| 56% | THE | 3 | With 4- and 5-Across, opposite of fantasy land |
| 53% | STATE | 5 | With 39 Across and 33 Down, what each syllable of the answer to each starred clue is |
| 53% | LIAM | 4 | With 4-Down, star of "Unknown" |
| 53% | ANTHONY | 7 | With 38-Across, star of 4-/60-Down |
| 50% | THE | 3 | With 71-Across and each answer to a starred clue, all of it |
| 49% | STICKY | 6 | With 58-Across, predicament, and a description of both halves of the starred answers |
| 49% | JAMIEFOXX | 9 | Actor that starred in Django Unchained and Ray |
| 48% | LARRY | 5 | With 31-Across, creator and star of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" |
| 48% | RONALD | 6 | With 39-Across, film star and future US president who was president of SAG, 1959-1960 |
| 48% | WHERETHE | 8 | With 43-Across, an exciting place, and a hint to the starts of the starred answers |
| 48% | SEPARATE | 8 | With 68-Across, 1958 David Niven film, and a feature of the starred answers |
| 47% | VERY | 4 | With 4-Across, opposite of seldom |
| 47% | BYE | 3 | With 38 and 39 Across, NSYNC hit of 2000 |
| 47% | PALO | 4 | With 4-Across, part of Silicon Valley |
| 47% | DAVID | 5 | With 4-Across, creator of "The Sopranos" |
| 47% | THE | 3 | With 4-Across, resident of Buckingham Palace |
| 47% | TWO | 3 | With 4-Across, value of an opinion? |
| 46% | FASHION | 7 | With 37-Across, up on the latest trends, and a fitting description of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 46% | THERES | 6 | With 36-Across, "This has strings attached," and a hint to the ends of the starred answers |
| 46% | JUNEIS | 6 | With 4 Down, 26 Across, and 18 Down, "Carousel" song famously slaughtered by Leslie Uggams |
| 45% | MEDICAL | 7 | With 37 Across, health-care jobs of 19 and 49 Across |
| 45% | ITWASTHEBEST | 12 | With 36 and 57 Across, ''A Tale of Two Cities'' beginning |
| 45% | JURASSICWORLD | 13 | With 47-Across, 2018 sci-fi thriller starring 28-Across/30-Across and a lot of CGI dinosaurs (2 wds.) |
| 45% | RED | 3 | With 3-Down and 4-Across, the human body makes around 200 billion of them per day |
| 45% | THEENDISJUST | 12 | With 43-Across, "When one door closes, another door opens," and an apt description of the answers to the starred clues |
| 45% | AFC | 3 | With 4-Across, football division for the Ravens and Browns |