| 100% | SMART | 5 | With 7-Across, wiseacre |
| 70% | OLD | 3 | With 7-Across, father |
| 70% | GAME | 4 | With 7-Across, strategy |
| 68% | OPEN | 4 | With 7-Across, go "Aaaaaaah" |
| 68% | BLANK | 5 | With 7-Across, unrhyming poetry |
| 68% | BROWN | 5 | With 7-Across, sycophantic type |
| 68% | LABOR | 5 | With 7-Across, employment pool |
| 68% | CLOSE | 5 | With 7-Across, near proximity |
| 68% | SILLY | 5 | With 7-Across, total goofball |
| 68% | SALES | 5 | With 7-Across, product lines? |
| 68% | MADE | 4 | With 7-Across, proved profitable |
| 67% | FIT | 3 | With 7-Across, dovetail with, say |
| 67% | DAVID | 5 | With 7-Across, "Space Oddity" singer |
| 67% | OUTOF | 5 | With 7-Across, kind of tuition |
| 67% | MELLO | 5 | With 7-Across, rhyming citrus soda |
| 67% | BOSOM | 5 | With 7-Across, really close friend |
| 67% | PAPER | 5 | With 7-Across, pulp processing places |
| 67% | PRICE | 5 | With 7-Across, consumers' cost catalogs |
| 67% | AVANT | 5 | With 7-Across, artistically envelope-pushing |
| 67% | BLOCK | 5 | With 7-Across, fun neighborhood event |
| 67% | LIVED | 5 | With 7-Across, had no roommates |
| 67% | NET | 3 | With 7-Across, assets minus liabilities |
| 67% | FOWL | 4 | Beasts with 7-Acrosses |
| 66% | BANANA | 6 | With 7-Across, something to start with |
| 66% | OCEAN | 5 | With 7-Across, Rhode Island, with "the" |
| 66% | APRIL | 5 | With 7-Across, exclamation much heard today |
| 66% | PLANE | 5 | With 7-Across, trip on a jet |
| 66% | EASY | 4 | WIth 7-Across, a piece of cake |
| 66% | SEEMS | 5 | With 7-Across, "Yeah, that checks out" |
| 66% | UNDER | 5 | With 7-Across, theater actor's backup |