| 100% | ROGER | 5 | With 59-Across, a 35-Down portrayer |
| 61% | MAP | 3 | With 59 Across, what's found within many a legend |
| 58% | RATA | 4 | With 59-Across, a knock |
| 57% | NEXTTIME | 8 | With 59-Across, a heckler's interruption |
| 55% | OREO | 4 | With 35 Down, narrow versions of a classic cookie |
| 54% | MAIN | 4 | With 59-Across, A-B-C-A in the illustration |
| 54% | DIET | 4 | With 25 Across, canonical brand for a 10 Down/11 Across |
| 52% | WHISTLERSMOTHER | 15 | With 59-Down, computer component for a referee? |
| 52% | SUSPENDED | 9 | With 59 Across, dormancy |
| 52% | ILLDOANYTHINGTO | 15 | With 59 Across, ''Apologies!'' |
| 51% | RACHEL | 6 | With 31-Across, Debbie Downer portrayer on "SNL" who wrote the memoir "Girl Walks Into a Bar ..." |
| 50% | EUBIE | 5 | With 59 Across, jazz composer/pianist |
| 50% | AMFM | 4 | With 59 Across, dashboard audio device |
| 50% | RED | 3 | With 59 Across, unwanted photo effect |
| 50% | ITSA | 4 | With 35-Down, a birth announcement |
| 50% | JAI | 3 | With 35-Down, a court game |
| 50% | SAL | 3 | With 35-Across, a cleanser |
| 50% | WHERENOMANHAS | 13 | With 59 Across, Captain Kirk's heading? |
| 50% | KODAK | 5 | With 59 Across, the slogan's subject |
| 50% | THEBRIDESOF | 11 | With 64 Across, photo idea that National Geographic turned down as a little too suspicious-sounding? |
| 49% | UNTIES | 6 | Loosens, as a 35 Down |
| 49% | SCUBADIVING | 11 | Recreation around a 35 Down |
| 49% | SKIPPING | 8 | With 59-Across, lakeside activity ... or a hint to the words spelled across the fifth, eighth and 11th rows of the completed grid |
| 49% | THANTORECEIVE | 13 | With 2 Down, 36 Across & 43 Across, a Christmas-style maxim |
| 49% | REDUCEDISTANCE | 14 | With 35-Across, highway sign meaning "slow down" |
| 49% | CALLA | 5 | With 35-Across, a sign of spring |
| 48% | IRON | 4 | With 59 Across, what's attached to some benches |
| 48% | ROYALFLUSH | 10 | Poker hand that beats a 35 Down |
| 48% | REELIN | 6 | Land with a 59-Across |
| 47% | BILLY | 5 | With 35-Across, "Caribbean Queen" singer with a "watery" name |