100% | SHOT | 4 | With 40-Across, a V.I.P. |
66% | ABRAHAM | 7 | With 40 Across, bearded VIP with a February 12th birthday |
63% | TREND | 5 | With 40-Across, a fad |
63% | HEAD | 4 | With 40-Across, a firebrand |
62% | RYDER | 5 | With 40-Across, a popular rental |
62% | CAKES | 5 | With 40-Across, a breakfast order |
58% | SEA | 3 | With 40-Across, meal for a wolf eel |
57% | HERMANM | 7 | With 40-Across, American novelist (who cracks ME up!) |
57% | EDITWHERE | 9 | With 40-Across, good advice for correcting a manuscript? |
57% | LAILA | 5 | With 40-Across, boxer with a 24-0 lifetime record |
56% | DONTBEGIN | 9 | With 40- and 60-Across, a cautionary message |
55% | ITS | 3 | With 40-Across, a chorus line ... or a hint to this puzzle's theme |
55% | HOUSE | 5 | With 40-Across, critic's positive review of a Fox medical drama? |
55% | IWANTITTHATWAY | 14 | "Millennium" Top 40 single by 47-Across with the lyrics "Tell me why / Ain't nothin' but a heartache" (5 wds.) |
54% | BIG | 3 | With 69-Across, V.I.P. |
54% | FRIDA | 5 | With 40-Across, Mexican painter played by Salma Hayek in a 2002 biopic |
54% | SHRIMP | 6 | With 40 Across, seafood dish with garlic |
54% | INTWOWORDS | 10 | With 40 Across, Goldwyn's ''No way!'' |
53% | MSN | 3 | I.S.P. with a butterfly logo |
53% | THEWITCHES | 10 | With 40-Across, 1987 movie starring 15-Across as a coven member: 2 wds. |
53% | COLIN | 5 | With 40-Across, "Orange County" star who played a cop on FX's "Fargo" |
52% | GALA | 4 | Do for a V.I.P.? |
52% | MISTER | 6 | With 40 Across, Hanks' role in 17/64 Across |
52% | HEHASNOTASINGLE | 15 | With 53-Across, a comment on British P.M. William Gladstone |
52% | FANFAREFORTHE | 13 | With 33 Across, P.D.Q. Bach piece with a lot of horn-blowing (and probably nose-blowing) |
51% | SKYBOX | 6 | Where a V.I.P. may sit |
51% | PERSONALSHOP | 12 | Aide for a V.I.P. customer |
51% | ROPE | 4 | A V.I.P. line may have a velvet one |
51% | LEARJET | 7 | Means of travel for a V.I.P. |
50% | DOT | 3 | With 40-Down, a modern company |