| 100% | LOST | 4 | With 8-Across, Atlantis or El Dorado, in legend |
| 41% | CONTENT | 7 | With 8-Across, YouTuber or TikTok star |
| 39% | CLIMBING | 8 | With 91-Across, super-antsy ... or like 24 Across answers in this puzzle? |
| 38% | THE | 3 | With 8-Across, "Should I Stay or Should I Go" band |
| 38% | NORTH | 5 | WIth 8-Across, diplomatically negotiated participant in the 2018 Winter Olympics |
| 38% | PIXIE | 5 | With 8-Across, magical substance that enables flight in "Peter Pan" |
| 38% | ROAD | 4 | With 8-Across, vacation in a car |
| 38% | ANIMAL | 6 | With 8 Across, raising livestock |
| 38% | FOOD | 4 | With 8-Across, high-definition photos of cake or bacon, e.g. |
| 37% | BIG | 3 | With 8-Across, a famous landmark in London known for its great bell |
| 37% | KAMALA | 6 | With 8-Across, 2020 Democratic hopeful born in Oakland, Ca. |
| 37% | CRASH | 5 | With 8-Across, figure in an auto safety test |
| 37% | ICE | 3 | With 8-Across, appliance in many a hotel hallway |
| 37% | ARIANA | 6 | With 8-Across, singer with back-to-back #1 albums in 2018 and 2019 |
| 37% | INSIDEOUT | 9 | Thoroughly … or how to read the four Across answers with parentheses in this puzzle |
| 36% | CITI | 4 | With 8-Across, two-wheel transportation service in the Big Apple |
| 36% | RISEFROM | 8 | With 97-Across, emerge reborn ... or what the ends of five Across answers in this puzzle do? |
| 36% | DONTTAKEANYOF | 13 | With 33-Down, Skeptic's advice ... or a "noteworthy" hint to seven Across answers in this puzzle |
| 36% | LOSTCITIES | 10 | Atlantis and El Dorado |
| 36% | STEPHEN | 7 | With 8-Across, comic named one of Time's "100 most influential people" in 2006 |
| 36% | LOSTCITIES | 10 | Atlantis and El Dorado, perhaps |
| 35% | FIRST | 5 | With 5-Across, baby's milestone ... or a hint to the hidden layer in this puzzle's Across clues |
| 35% | RARE | 4 | With 8-Across, one-in-a-million sort |
| 34% | HALF | 4 | With 38- and 40-Across, grocery purchase ... or what can be found in some other Across answers in this puzzle |
| 34% | UNA | 3 | With 8 Down, a girl in Guadalajara |
| 34% | ALTHEA | 6 | With 32-Across, tennis legend who appeared on "Forever" stamps in 2013 |
| 34% | TEDWILLIAMS | 11 | 39-Across legend who played in the 1946 8-Down |
| 33% | YOULL | 5 | With 21 Across, 3 Down, 8 Down, and 20 Down, response to Ralphie's request for a BB gun in "A Christmas Story" |
| 32% | DISCO | 5 | With 8-Down, "The Simpsons" character in a rhinestone suit |
| 32% | MIR | 3 | Atlantis docked with it in 1995 |