| 100% | ABOVE | 5 | With 4-Down, first and foremost |
| 66% | JUNEIS | 6 | With 4 Down, 26 Across, and 18 Down, "Carousel" song famously slaughtered by Leslie Uggams |
| 60% | ABOVEALL | 8 | First and foremost |
| 60% | PRINCIPAL | 9 | First and foremost |
| 60% | PRIMARILY | 9 | First and foremost |
| 59% | WORLD | 5 | With 4-Down, what the Gall-Peters and Mercator projections show |
| 59% | WATER | 5 | With 4-Down, amusement attractions that might have chutes and ladders |
| 58% | GLASS | 5 | With 4 Down, transparent swimmer |
| 58% | BATH | 4 | With 4 Down, Neutrogena product |
| 57% | MIKE | 4 | With 4-Down, he and his pet tiger were featured in "The Hangover" |
| 55% | PRINCIPAL | 9 | First and foremost, this person runs a high school |
| 55% | SNAKE | 5 | With 3- and 4-Down, treacherous person |
| 55% | LYRICS | 6 | What Lerner teamed with 4 Down for |
| 54% | CLOSER | 6 | 4-Down's first #1 single as a vocalist with the Chainsmokers |
| 54% | HASTE | 5 | With 2- and 4-Down, adage about rushing |
| 53% | IHAVE | 5 | With 4 Down, M.L.K. declaration of 8/28/63 |
| 51% | PATTI | 5 | With 23-Down, former First Daughter who wrote 15-Across and 46-Across |
| 51% | EASY | 4 | With 6-Across and 4-Down, pleasant to look at |
| 51% | JAMIE | 5 | With 4-Across, star of "Django Unchained" and "Soul" |
| 51% | THE | 3 | With 4- and 5-Across, opposite of fantasy land |
| 50% | MOVETHECHAINS | 13 | Pick up first downs, in football slang ... with a visual interpretation seen inside the answers to 19-, 24-, and 42-Across |
| 50% | AFC | 3 | With 4-Across, football division for the Ravens and Browns |
| 50% | LOG | 3 | With 4-Across, stop scrolling the internet and go outside |
| 50% | SHIRLEY | 7 | With 1 Down, first Black woman in congress |
| 49% | CAESARSALAD | 11 | First course with romaine and croutons |
| 49% | BALD | 4 | With ''-faced'' and 65 Down, whopper |
| 49% | SET | 3 | With ''to'' and 26 Down, pacify |
| 49% | ILL | 3 | Down with cough and cold, say |
| 49% | BRAID | 5 | Word that can follow the first words of 4-, 7- and 10-Down |
| 49% | TOA | 3 | With 4-Down, perfectly |