| 100% | LASH | 4 | With 43-Across, a 1940's movie cowboy |
| 60% | ICE | 3 | With 43-Across, animated movie featuring a mammoth named Manny |
| 54% | LARUE | 5 | Movie cowboy with a horse named Rush |
| 51% | DAGWOOD | 7 | With 43 Across, Cookie's parents |
| 51% | ROYROGERS | 9 | Old time movie cowboy with a horse named Trigger |
| 51% | LIAM | 4 | With 43 Across, ''Schindler's List'' star |
| 50% | ICE | 3 | With 43-Down, 2002 animated movie with Ray Romano voicing a mammoth |
| 49% | TIRE | 4 | With 43-Across, leaver of a mark |
| 49% | INK | 3 | With 43-Across, part of a squid |
| 48% | RAUL | 4 | With 43-Down, a president's brother |
| 48% | MAN | 3 | With 43-Across, strength needed for a team job |
| 46% | NOSHOES | 7 | With 43-Across and 20-Down, a sign on a restaurant door |
| 45% | IENJOYEDYOURBOOK | 16 | With 43- and 48-Across, a barb to 14-Down |
| 45% | SKETCH | 6 | With 43 Across, art store purchase |
| 45% | UNU | 3 | 1940's-50's leader with a palindromic name |
| 44% | TED | 3 | Wahlberg's movie with a lively bear |
| 44% | MARY | 4 | With 43 Across, Supporting Actress (''Melvin and Howard'') |
| 44% | SAYHELLOTOMY | 12 | With 48-Across, memorable Al Pacino movie line ... or a hint for this puzzle's theme |
| 43% | ABLACKLADY | 10 | With 43-Across, HBO comedy program with a theme song by Megan Thee Stallion: 3 wds. |
| 43% | WHERETHE | 8 | With 43-Across, an exciting place, and a hint to the starts of the starred answers |
| 42% | ROLLINGIN | 9 | With 84-Across, like an audience during a stoner movie? |
| 42% | HUGSAND | 7 | With 43-Down, a complimentary close |
| 42% | THANTORECEIVE | 13 | With 2 Down, 36 Across & 43 Across, a Christmas-style maxim |
| 41% | MALCOLMIN | 9 | With 43-Across, 2000-2006 Fox sitcom with a mother named Lois (played by Jane Kaczmarek): 2 wds. |
| 41% | HAVINGAGOODTIME | 15 | With 34-, 43- and 58-Across, message on a tourist's postcard |
| 41% | TIMETOHITTHEHAY | 15 | With 43-Across, line spoken by the show's star |
| 41% | GLEAM | 5 | Sparkle with the radiance of a movie star's teeth |
| 41% | MARYJANES | 9 | Women's flat shoes with a strap across the ankle |
| 41% | LARA | 4 | Woman with a 1960's movie theme |
| 40% | JACKOFALLTRADES | 15 | With 55-Across, a handyman's description |