| 100% | TOP | 3 | With 51-Down, a hit list? |
| 65% | ONE | 3 | With 51-Down, a common tennis score |
| 62% | PRO | 3 | With 51-Down, part of a golf club |
| 59% | LES | 3 | With 79-Down, a B'way hit |
| 58% | SHA | 3 | With 44-Down, a 1974 Al Green hit |
| 58% | MILTON | 6 | With 51 Down, source of answer |
| 57% | OOF | 3 | Exclamation on a hit list? |
| 57% | URLS | 4 | Items on a hit list |
| 56% | SKI | 3 | With 51 Down, high time for snow sports |
| 56% | OPP | 3 | "You down with ___? Yeah, you know me!" (Refrain from a Naughty by Nature 1991 hit) |
| 55% | ASILIVE | 7 | With 33-Down and 51-Across, "What a surprise!" |
| 54% | NAPOLEON | 8 | With 41-Down, title teen in a 2004 indie hit |
| 54% | AMORE | 5 | It makes you "dance down the street with a cloud at your feet," in a 1953 hit |
| 53% | NOMDE | 5 | With 51-Across, a fake handle? |
| 53% | SAM | 3 | With 51 Down, host of the politics podcast "The Majority Report" |
| 53% | TOPTEN | 6 | Hit list often counted down: 2 wds. |
| 52% | ABBE | 4 | With 37 Down, a singer |
| 52% | ARCH | 4 | With 47 Down, a sport |
| 52% | CHRISTINA | 9 | With 51-Across, "Genie in a Bottle" singer |
| 52% | HALFPOUND | 9 | With 51 Across, ''big'' beef on a bun |
| 52% | ERRAND | 6 | Thing on a 1 Down list |
| 52% | EBONY | 5 | Magazine with a Power 100 list |
| 51% | ASHANTI | 7 | She had a hit with "Foolish" |
| 51% | OHME | 4 | With 34 Down, a worried cry |
| 51% | SKI | 3 | Go down a mountain with poles |
| 51% | ZAP | 3 | Hit with a phaser |
| 51% | WHACK | 5 | Hit with a bang |
| 51% | CITE | 4 | Hit with a ticket |
| 51% | POUND | 5 | Hit with a hammer |
| 51% | ZAP | 3 | Hit with a laser |