| 100% | REESE | 5 | Witherspoon with a 1 Across |
| 65% | AOL | 3 | Service with a 1-Across |
| 62% | HORA | 4 | Dance with a 1-Across, perhaps |
| 57% | HANDSAMERICA | 12 | With 1 Across, charity event involving a coast-to-coast human chain |
| 56% | REESE | 5 | Witherspoon with a book club |
| 55% | REF | 3 | One with a whistle ... who sometimes 1-Across? |
| 55% | TSTORMS | 7 | Weather events with lightning, briefly ... or a description of 1 and 13 Across |
| 54% | TIED | 4 | With 1-Across, had a connection with |
| 53% | CLIP | 4 | With 1-Across, sound of a carriage horse |
| 53% | THE | 3 | With 1-Across, last words of a story |
| 53% | KICKS | 5 | Some strikes for a 1 Across |
| 52% | FOOD | 4 | With 1-Across, dreaded cry for a cafeteria worker |
| 52% | CORED | 5 | With the 1 Across removed |
| 52% | GEISHA | 6 | Hostess with a 46 Across |
| 51% | DSTUDENT | 8 | One with a 1.0 G.P.A. |
| 51% | QOM | 3 | Iranian city with a 1,200,000+ population |
| 51% | HERES | 5 | With 1-Across and 1-Down, words preceding a new insight |
| 50% | SUGAR | 5 | With 1-Across, ingredients followed in a saying by "and everything nice" |
| 49% | LEGO | 4 | Construction toy brand with a 1,329-piece Millennium Falcon |
| 49% | GENEAUTRY | 9 | Singer with a #1 hit about 123-Across |
| 49% | ROULETTE | 8 | Game played with a 1/2- to 3/4-inch ball |
| 48% | BARNARDBULLETIN | 15 | College newspaper with a rustic 57 Across? |
| 48% | SHUTTERBUG | 10 | Photographry magazine with a minimalistic 57 Across? |
| 48% | OTIS | 4 | Redding with a posthumous No. 1 record |
| 48% | OTIS | 4 | Redding with a posthumous No. 1 hit |
| 48% | DARTS | 5 | Game with a board numbered 1-20 |
| 48% | TALC | 4 | Mineral with a Mohs hardness of 1 |
| 48% | BUT | 3 | With 75 Across, a gas |
| 48% | LIRPA | 5 | With 1-Across, a normal answer for a totally normal day of the year |
| 47% | AMAZON | 6 | Company with a major stake in 13 Across |