| 100% | PLATDU | 6 | With 42-Down, restaurant dish of the day |
| 55% | SPECIALS | 8 | Dishes of the day on a menu |
| 55% | SPECIAL | 7 | Dish of the day, at a discounted price |
| 51% | CATCH | 5 | ___ of the day (special at a seafood restaurant) |
| 47% | APRIL | 5 | One of the months with only 30 days |
| 47% | APRIL | 5 | First month of the year with 30 days |
| 47% | KFC | 3 | Restaurant with the Double Down sandwich |
| 47% | MELISSA | 7 | With 42 Down, "The Fighter" Oscar winner |
| 47% | MIDWINTER | 9 | Day with the fewest hours of daylight |
| 47% | TOM | 3 | With 3-Down, portrayer of Mister Rogers in 2019's "A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood" |
| 46% | KAL | 3 | With, 42-Down, co-star of the "Harold and Kumar" films |
| 46% | PAELLA | 6 | Dish associated with the Valencia region of Spain |
| 46% | SAM | 3 | With 51 Down, host of the politics podcast "The Majority Report" |
| 45% | HIP | 3 | Down with what the kids are into these days |
| 45% | RED | 3 | With 3-Down and 4-Across, the human body makes around 200 billion of them per day |
| 45% | GENE | 4 | With 42-Down, "Frosty the Snowman" singer |
| 45% | ANCIENT | 7 | With 42-Across, subject of the poem that contains the line 17-/65-Across |
| 45% | RUDYARD | 7 | With 42 Across, British author of ''How the Camel Got His Hump'' |
| 45% | AFTER | 5 | With 1-Down, at the end of the day |
| 45% | SLEDDING | 8 | The act of sliding down a small hill with snow |
| 45% | SOLSTICE | 8 | Midsummer day with the longest period of daylight |
| 44% | GARGOYLESWITH | 13 | With 50 Across, the least-ordered dish at Quasimodo's Restaurant? |
| 44% | LALALAND | 8 | It opens with the number "Another Day of Sun" |
| 44% | OLDSCHOOL | 9 | Not down with the new ways of doing things |
| 44% | PHARRELL | 8 | With 42-Across, "Happy" singer who was voted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2020 |
| 44% | UVEA | 4 | Layer of the 42-Down |
| 43% | SEVEN | 5 | With 42-Down, "All the world's a stage" subject |
| 43% | BUTTONING | 9 | Fastening with discs, down the front of a cardigan |
| 43% | WEDNESDAY | 9 | Only day of the week with nine letters |
| 43% | YELP | 4 | App with a "Review of the Day" feature |