| 100% | SAKSONEAVENUE | 13 | With 77-Across, high-end retail chain |
| 54% | NEIMANS | 7 | High-end retail chain, informally |
| 48% | KBTOYS | 6 | Retail chain popular with kids |
| 48% | PETSMART | 8 | Retail chain with chew toys |
| 46% | PETSMART | 8 | Retail chain with a Treats Rewards membership |
| 45% | PETCO | 5 | Retail chain with a dog-and-cat logo |
| 45% | TARGET | 6 | Retail chain with a bull's-eye logo |
| 45% | PETCO | 5 | Retail chain with heat lamps and hamster wheels |
| 45% | MACYS | 5 | Retail chain with a red star in its logo |
| 43% | PETCO | 5 | Retail chain with a dog and a cat in its logo |
| 43% | OLIVEGARDEN | 11 | Chain with the Never Ending Pasta Bowl |
| 42% | KMART | 5 | Once-giant retail chain with fewer than 100 remaining stores |
| 41% | MARY | 4 | With 77-Across, red, blue and yellow |
| 41% | SAKS | 4 | High-end department store chain |
| 40% | LINE | 4 | With 14 Across, payoff at the end of a joke |
| 40% | OMNI | 4 | High-end hotel chain |
| 40% | HYATT | 5 | High-end hotel chain |
| 40% | LOEWS | 5 | High-end hotel chain |
| 39% | IKEA | 4 | Retail chain with an average store size of 300,000 square feet (roughly three city blocks!) |
| 39% | TOP | 3 | With 29-Across, highest-quality |
| 39% | HANDSAMERICA | 12 | With 1 Across, charity event involving a coast-to-coast human chain |
| 39% | WHITE | 5 | With 8-Across, fictional high-end resort on a hit HBO show |
| 38% | FAINTING | 8 | Couch type with high back on one end; passing out |
| 38% | ELEVATOR | 8 | With 9-Across, high-rise feature |
| 38% | ANNTAYLOR | 9 | Women's wear retailer with a Loft chain of retail stores |
| 38% | MEN | 3 | 2022 horror movie that ends with a chain of male births |
| 37% | LOOKWHATTHEYVE | 14 | Composer's lament (with 77 Across, a 1970 hit) |
| 37% | IHOP | 4 | Chain with 17-Across |
| 36% | NIXON | 5 | With 9-Across, it ended with Watergate |
| 36% | LABOR | 5 | With 9-Across, symbolic end of summer |