| 100% | ROMEO | 5 | With whom Juliet 14-Acrossed |
| 58% | LEONARDO | 8 | With 32-Across, "Titanic" actor who played Romeo in "Romeo + Juliet" |
| 57% | JOSEPH | 6 | With 14- and 45-Across, "Inception" actor who stars in 49-Across |
| 56% | ALAN | 4 | With 14-Across, actor who played Hawkeye Pierce on "M*A*S*H" |
| 55% | HUNT | 4 | With 14 Across, "Twister" star |
| 54% | FRUIT | 5 | With 14 Across, sweet summer beverage |
| 54% | STOCKING | 8 | With 14 Across, some Christmas gifts |
| 53% | ROM | 3 | With 14 Across, films like ''Pretty Woman'' |
| 53% | PATTI | 5 | With 14 Across, "Because the Night" singer |
| 52% | THEBEACHBOYS | 12 | 14-Across and 26-Across band who also had a hit with the 1965 song "California Girls" (3 wds.) |
| 52% | HOLE | 4 | With 14 Across, office tool for paper shaping |
| 51% | BUGGY | 5 | With 14 Across, Volkswagen Beetle in a car game |
| 51% | CAITLIN | 7 | With 14-Across, Iowa star who became the all-time NCAA Division-I basketball scoring leader in 2024 |
| 50% | LINE | 4 | With 14 Across, payoff at the end of a joke |
| 50% | STEPHEN | 7 | With 17 Across, justice who announced his retirement in 2022 |
| 50% | MIKHAIL | 7 | With 117 Across, dancer who can't help disrupting sermons? |
| 50% | BEST | 4 | With 52 Across, one who may give a wedding speech |
| 50% | KITE | 4 | With 14 Down, person who chases down a flying toy |
| 50% | ESTES | 5 | Kefauver who ran with 39 Across in 1956 |
| 49% | STEPHEN | 7 | With 47-Across, theoretical physicist and author of 20-Across/28-Across/41-Across who passed away March 14, 2018 |
| 49% | ROMO | 4 | Tony who played with the Cowboys for 14 seasons |
| 48% | THATS | 5 | With 14-Across, "?????" |
| 48% | BUTDOCTOR | 9 | With 14 and 19 Across, punchline of a joke about a clown |
| 48% | RICHARD | 7 | With 19 Across, billionaire who took a notable vacation in July 2021 |
| 47% | MARIN | 5 | With 30-Across, Croatian tennis player whom 14-Across defeated in the 2017 Wimbledon finals |
| 47% | WHITEHOUSE | 10 | With 50 Across, to whom Tom Hanks gave a 39 Across in 2017 |
| 47% | KEEL | 4 | With 14-Across, collapse |
| 47% | SAMSMITH | 8 | "Stay With Me" singer who won 14-Across in 2015: 2 wds. |
| 47% | OPTIMIST | 8 | One who identifies with the answers to the starred Across clues |
| 46% | STEUBEN | 7 | With 14-Across, certain crystal |