| 100% | STOPSTARING | 11 | With 46 Across, modern ''Pay attention!'' | 
| 54% | MOELARRY | 8 | With 46 Across, the Three Stooges | 
| 54% | ELIHU | 5 | With 46 Across, Ivy League benefactor | 
| 53% | FROMRAGS | 8 | With 46 Across, full-range, wealth-wise | 
| 52% | TUNED | 5 | Paying attention, with "in" | 
| 51% | TUNAFISH | 8 | With 46 Across, bread with a ''chunk light'' filling | 
| 51% | CARVEOUT | 8 | With 46 Across, make room on one's schedule | 
| 51% | LISTEN | 6 | Pay attention with your ears | 
| 51% | TOOKNOTE | 8 | Paid attention to, with "of" | 
| 51% | LISTENED | 8 | Paid attention with the ears | 
| 49% | LISTEN | 6 | Pay attention with a silent letter "t" | 
| 49% | ZONES | 5 | Stops paying attention, with "out" | 
| 46% | OLD | 3 | With 46-Across, stale | 
| 45% | HEA | 3 | With 46-Across, bereft, literally | 
| 45% | CONKED | 6 | With 46-Across, quit working | 
| 45% | ROSS | 4 | With 46-Across, Antarctic waters | 
| 44% | MUD | 3 | With 46-Across, marsh-dwelling bird | 
| 44% | TRYNOTTOGET | 11 | With 46-Across, cautionary reply #2 | 
| 44% | TAR | 3 | With 46-Across, prehistoric animal preserver | 
| 44% | SIDNEY | 6 | With 46-Across, late, legendary director | 
| 44% | WHEREDIDWEGO | 12 | With 38 Across, 57 Across' lament in 46 Across | 
| 44% | BOBA | 4 | With 46-Across, noncarbonated drink with bubbles | 
| 43% | DUCK | 4 | With 46-Across, "It ain't hard!" | 
| 43% | APRES | 5 | With 46-Across, socializing at the lodge | 
| 43% | JENNIFER | 8 | With 46-Across, "The Hunger Games" star who was Forbes's highest-paid actress in 2016 | 
| 43% | CRIER | 5 | Colonial figure with 46-Across | 
| 43% | RON | 3 | With 46-Across, a successor to Buster Crabbe | 
| 43% | JENNY | 5 | With 46-Across, program pitched by Queen Latifah | 
| 42% | NEW | 3 | With 40-Across, modern | 
| 42% | RAPT | 4 | "He paid ___ attention to what she was saying" (Rhymes with "trapped") |