| 100% | LINDA | 5 | With 99-Across, Lucy's portrayer in Broadway's "Jekyll & Hyde" |
| 43% | TOM | 3 | With 6-Across, manager portrayer in 2022's "Elvis" |
| 39% | ERIC | 4 | With 9-Down, Bruce Banner portrayer in 2003's "Hulk" |
| 38% | ERICHVON | 8 | With 39-Across, portrayer of Max, Norma's butler, in "Sunset Boulevard": 2 wds. |
| 38% | TALIA | 5 | With 21 Across, portrayer of Rocky Jr.'s mom |
| 37% | THEPHANTOM | 10 | With 60-Across, longest-running show in Broadway history as of 1/9/06 |
| 37% | ANGELA | 6 | Tina’s portrayer in “What’s Love Got to Do with It” |
| 37% | LATESHOW | 8 | Something filmed in Broadway's Ed Sullivan Theater, with "The" |
| 36% | SIRSEAN | 7 | With 53-Across, 007 portrayer in "Goldfinger," knighted in 2000: 2 wds. |
| 36% | JEANIEWITH | 10 | With 99 Across, song about a carnival attraction? |
| 35% | JOHN | 4 | With 115 Across, Gomez Addams portrayer |
| 35% | THELIFEOF | 9 | With 22 Across, Taylor Swift's upcoming 12th album, announced in August 2025 |
| 35% | PEAR | 4 | With 63 Across, ''partridge in a'' place |
| 35% | TIPTOE | 6 | With 63-Across, song in the 1929 film Gold Diggers of Broadway |
| 34% | DERRY | 5 | With 11 Across, sitcom set in Northern Ireland |
| 34% | EDER | 4 | Linda of Broadway’s “Jekyll & Hyde” |
| 34% | EDER | 4 | Linda of Broadway's "Jekyll & Hyde" |
| 34% | EDER | 4 | Linda ___, from Broadway's "Jekyll & Hyde" |
| 34% | TRIPLE | 6 | With 47-Down, multitalented Broadway star ... or what's "veiled" in this puzzle's circles |
| 34% | WHEREDIDWEGO | 12 | With 38 Across, 57 Across' lament in 46 Across |
| 34% | BUGGY | 5 | With 14 Across, Volkswagen Beetle in a car game |
| 33% | CHIA | 4 | With 65 Across, morsel in a smoothie |
| 33% | DOESNTKNOW | 10 | With 73 Across, is in ignorance regarding |
| 33% | NOTMUCHMEATON | 13 | With 70 and 83 Across, Spencer's view of Kate in Pat and Mike |
| 33% | SUNTAN | 6 | With 71 Across, what the people in this puzzle need? |
| 33% | OUTER | 5 | With 7-Across, what's visible in the night sky |
| 33% | PARK | 4 | With 16 Across, block traffic, in a way |
| 33% | FISHOUT | 7 | With 49 Across, person in an unaccustomed environment |
| 33% | DONTBIGEMPTY | 12 | With 45 Across, a query put to Bob Hope in 1939's The Cat and the Canary |
| 33% | BERNARD | 7 | With 23 Across, luxury goods magnate listed by Forbes as the world's wealthiest person in 2023 |