| 100% | LAID | 4 | With 54-Down, in reserve |
| 83% | HAIL | 4 | With 54 Down, desperate passes, in football |
| 63% | ICE | 3 | In reserve, with "on" |
| 58% | ABAS | 4 | Down with, in Dunkirk |
| 58% | SIXTEENTH | 9 | With 54 Across, 38/40 Across' place in history |
| 56% | STAND | 5 | With 108 Down, remain in place |
| 56% | FROMHANDTOMOUTH | 15 | With nothing in reserve |
| 55% | UNA | 3 | With 8 Down, a girl in Guadalajara |
| 55% | LADY | 4 | With 53-Down, "A Star Is Born" actress who plays Harley Quinn in "Joker: 54-Across" |
| 55% | PAN | 3 | With 54-Down, waffle alternative |
| 55% | RAT | 3 | With 54-Down, wearisome routine |
| 54% | BARACK | 6 | With 29 Down, president born in the '60s |
| 54% | SHIRLEY | 7 | With 1 Down, first Black woman in congress |
| 54% | TEN | 3 | With 54-Down, kind of store |
| 54% | AGAR | 4 | With 54-Down, food gelling agent |
| 54% | ATIT | 4 | With 54-Down, back to fighting |
| 53% | COME | 4 | With 54-Down, approach with a line |
| 53% | SHUT | 4 | Word with in or up or down |
| 53% | FELT | 4 | With 54-Down, a derby, e.g. |
| 53% | KNOCK | 5 | With 54-Down, intro to a joke |
| 53% | PEE | 3 | With 54-Down, river of the Carolinas |
| 53% | BETEL | 5 | With 54-Down, stimulant-yielding palm fruit |
| 52% | ISMELLTHEBLOOD | 14 | With 50-Down, cry made in [the circled letters] after the starts of 54-, 33-, 30- and 14-Down |
| 51% | STARTFROM | 9 | With 58-Across, what four Down answers in this puzzle do |
| 51% | ERODE | 5 | Wear down that woman in East End with poem |
| 51% | WHAT | 4 | With 54-Down, start of a historic telegraph message |
| 51% | ERROL | 5 | With 54-Across, he played Robin Hood in "The Adventures of Robin Hood" (1938): 2 wds. |
| 50% | BEHIND | 6 | With 71-Down, in secret |
| 50% | SIDE | 4 | With 111-Down, in cooperation |
| 50% | PLUMB | 5 | With 111 Down, crazy as a loon, in the Crazy A Saloon |