| 100% | CREEPS | 6 | With 48-Across, enters stealthily |
| 64% | OMEGA | 5 | Symbol associated with 48 Across |
| 56% | NOT | 3 | With 48-Across, mediocre |
| 56% | ATNO | 4 | With 48-Across, never |
| 55% | SMOKED | 6 | With 48-Across, deli item |
| 55% | AINT | 4 | With 48-Across, "... and that ___!" |
| 55% | HEARTS | 6 | With 48-Across, deepest longing |
| 55% | LEMON | 5 | With 48-Across, fish dish |
| 54% | ADOBE | 5 | With 48-Across, popular computer product |
| 54% | SURVEY | 6 | With 48-Across, "Family Feud" material |
| 54% | CUTS | 4 | With 48-Across, stops wasting time |
| 54% | ICE | 3 | With 48-Across, cousin of sleet |
| 54% | OWNERS | 6 | Those with 48-Acrosses |
| 53% | CAPE | 4 | With 48-Across, East Coast vacation spot |
| 53% | THATSTHEWAYTHE | 14 | With 48-Across, "sweet" expression about consequences |
| 53% | SPAR | 4 | Practice with 48-Across, say |
| 52% | LATE | 4 | With 48-Across, one who is eventually successful |
| 51% | BOOKYOURSEATNOW | 15 | With 48-Across, practical advice for attending the lecture |
| 51% | DREAM | 5 | With 48-Across, fabled squad of the 1992 Olympics |
| 50% | SHIFTINTO | 9 | With 48-Across, wardrobe malfunction at an auto repair shop? |
| 50% | BENJAMIN | 8 | With 48-Across, Declaration of Independence signer who invented bifocals |
| 49% | TIP | 3 | With 48-Across, leader of the House of Representatives, 1977-87 |
| 49% | JENNIFER | 8 | With 48-Across, Best Actress Oscar winner for "Silver Linings Playbook" |
| 49% | DEFYING | 7 | With 48-Across, song sung by Elphaba in the musical "Wicked" |
| 48% | SNEAK | 5 | With 25-Across, secretly enter |
| 48% | SEA | 3 | With 48-Across, underwater creature that's certainly not a 48-Across |
| 48% | SIRISAAC | 8 | With 48-Across, author of the three laws of motion: 2 wds. |
| 48% | DOROTHY | 7 | With 48-Down, character played by 1-Down/16-Across |
| 47% | BOHEMIAN | 8 | With 48-Across, 2018 musical biopic with Rami Malek as rocker Freddie Mercury |
| 47% | CALEB | 5 | With 48-Across, novelist who wrote 40-Across and "The Angel of Darkness" |