| 100% | MUD | 3 | With 46-Across, marsh-dwelling bird |
| 59% | MOELARRY | 8 | With 46 Across, the Three Stooges |
| 57% | TUNAFISH | 8 | With 46 Across, bread with a ''chunk light'' filling |
| 52% | COMPULSIVERAIL | 14 | Marsh bird with uncontrollable urges? |
| 50% | HEA | 3 | With 46-Across, bereft, literally |
| 50% | CONKED | 6 | With 46-Across, quit working |
| 50% | ROSS | 4 | With 46-Across, Antarctic waters |
| 49% | EGRET | 5 | Marsh-dwelling white bird |
| 49% | TRYNOTTOGET | 11 | With 46-Across, cautionary reply #2 |
| 49% | TAR | 3 | With 46-Across, prehistoric animal preserver |
| 49% | SIDNEY | 6 | With 46-Across, late, legendary director |
| 48% | WHEREDIDWEGO | 12 | With 38 Across, 57 Across' lament in 46 Across |
| 48% | DUCK | 4 | With 46-Across, "It ain't hard!" |
| 48% | APRES | 5 | With 46-Across, socializing at the lodge |
| 48% | CRIER | 5 | Colonial figure with 46-Across |
| 47% | RON | 3 | With 46-Across, a successor to Buster Crabbe |
| 47% | JENNY | 5 | With 46-Across, program pitched by Queen Latifah |
| 46% | WILLIAM | 7 | With 46-Across, Captain Kirk on 5-/58-Across |
| 46% | GEISHA | 6 | Hostess with a 46 Across |
| 45% | NOVUS | 5 | With 46-Across, phrase on the back of a buck |
| 45% | AGAINST | 7 | With 46-Across, song containing the lyric in this puzzle |
| 44% | XISTHE | 6 | With 46-Across, an observation about the game in this grid |
| 44% | SOMETHINGS | 10 | With 46-Across, 2003 Diane Keaton comedy directed by Nancy Meyers |
| 44% | ABBEY | 5 | With 46-Down, 1969 album by the 38-Across |
| 43% | PHARRELL | 8 | With 46-Across, rapper and music producer providing vocals on 20-Across |
| 42% | FIFTY | 5 | 46-Across, with respect to this answer's location |
| 41% | LANCE | 5 | With 46-Across, cyclist who was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles |
| 41% | TEA | 3 | 46 Across homonym |
| 41% | CRUDO | 5 | Olivia Laing début novel that slant-rhymes with 46-Across (September, 2018) |
| 41% | FESTIVUS | 8 | 46-Across holiday that begins with the Airing of Grievances |