| 100% | GENE | 4 | With 44-Across, Champion rider |
| 55% | ODDS | 4 | With 37- Across and 44-Down, miscellany |
| 55% | OLD | 3 | With 44-Across, a veteran |
| 54% | ODD | 3 | With 44-Across, handyman's task |
| 54% | COP | 3 | With 44-Across, bargain for leniency |
| 54% | TOP | 3 | With 44-Across, Hanna-Barbera feline |
| 54% | STER | 4 | Suffix with 44-Across |
| 53% | ONION | 5 | With 44-Across, hot sandwich go-with |
| 53% | FATS | 4 | With 44-Across, "Ain't Misbehavin" songwriter |
| 53% | AVE | 3 | With 44-Across, a traditional Catholic prayer |
| 53% | DRAWANDONE | 10 | With 44-Across, execute, in a way |
| 53% | HUGH | 4 | With 44-Across, founder of Playboy magazine |
| 53% | STAIRWAY | 8 | With 44-Across, 1971 Led Zeppelin hit |
| 53% | JOETHEBARTENDER | 15 | Comedy sketch with 44-Across |
| 52% | SAPS | 4 | With 44-Across, 1940 Laurel and Hardy film |
| 52% | TALKLIKEA | 9 | With 44-Across, annual celebration on 9/19 |
| 52% | POI | 3 | Luau staple made with 44-Across |
| 51% | LORNA | 5 | With 44-Across, 1869 romance by R. D. Blackmore |
| 51% | ORONO | 5 | With 44-Across, home of a major Northeast university |
| 51% | BANKERS | 7 | With 44-Across, it may lead to a seizure |
| 50% | LORAX | 5 | 44-Across character, with "the" |
| 50% | KNICKKNACK | 10 | With 44-Across, part of a children's song refrain |
| 50% | NORTHERN | 8 | With 44-Across, birthplace of Rory McIlroy and Jamie Dornan |
| 50% | BONNIE | 6 | With 44-Across, female half of a 1930s crime duo |
| 49% | THEHANGOVER | 11 | With 44-Across, 2013 buddy comedy with Melissa McCarthy: 2 wds. |
| 49% | PLEDGE | 6 | With 44- and 51-Across words by Francis Bellamy |
| 49% | GOFLY | 5 | With 44-Down, advice to 27-Across/32-Down? |
| 48% | GOODSHIP | 8 | With 44-Across, boat in a song by 29-Across: 2 wds. |
| 48% | ALLABOUT | 8 | With 44-Across, "treble"-shunning 2014 hit by 30-Across: 2 wds. |
| 47% | SURVIVALOF | 10 | With 44-Across, phrase associated with 32-Across's evolutionary process: 2 wds. |