| Top-notch restaurant offering | 29 |
| Top-notch service | 17 |
| Top-notch steak sauce? | 22 |
| Top-notch unit | 14 |
| Top-notch, as productions go | 28 |
| Top-notch, in ratings | 21 |
| Top-notch, in slang | 19 |
| Top-notch, slangily | 19 |
| Top-notch, to a Brit | 20 |
| Top-notchers | 12 |
| Top-of-house workers | 20 |
| Top-of-memo abbr. | 17 |
| Top-of-page title | 17 |
| Top-of-the-beanstalk resident | 29 |
| Top-of-the-chart number | 23 |
| Top-of-the-charts number | 24 |
| Top-of-the-hour broadcast, maybe | 32 |
| Top-of-the-hour delivery | 24 |
| Top-of-the-hour info | 20 |
| Top-of-the-hour radio offering | 30 |
| Top-of-the-leaderboard number | 29 |
| Top-of-the-line | 15 |
| Top-of-the-line steak sauce? | 28 |
| Top-of-the-line suit? | 21 |
| Top-of-the-Mark treat | 21 |
| Top-of-the-tenth score, perhaps | 31 |
| Top-of-the-watch number | 23 |
| Top-of-the-world topper | 23 |
| Top-of-the-world worker | 23 |
| Top-of-Web-page ad | 18 |
| Top-on-a-string pastime | 23 |
| Top-priority | 12 |
| Top-quality | 11 |
| Top-quality, in slang | 21 |
| Top-quality, slangily | 21 |
| Top-ranked | 10 |
| Top-ranked Fox talent show, and this puzzle's theme | 55 |
| Top-ranked player in a tournament | 33 |
| Top-ranked tennis player Ivanovic | 33 |
| Top-ranking bishop | 18 |
| Top-ranking cleric | 18 |
| Top-ranking crook? | 18 |
| Top-ranking noble | 17 |
| Top-rate | 8 |
| Top-rated | 9 |
| Top-rated CW sitcom | 19 |
| Top-rated evening TV show of 1961-62 | 36 |
| Top-rated film | 14 |
| Top-rated group | 15 |
| Top-rated monarch? | 18 |
| Top-rated record | 16 |
| Top-rated series of 2003 | 24 |
| Top-rated show of 2002-05 | 25 |
| Top-rated sports group | 22 |
| Top-rated TV miniseries of 1977 | 31 |
| Top-rated TV series of 2001-02 | 30 |
| Top-rated TV show of 1989-90 | 28 |
| Top-rated TV show of 2002-04 | 28 |
| Top-rated TV show of 2002-3 | 27 |
| Top-rated TV show of the 60's | 33 |
| Top-rated, in a brownie bake-off | 32 |
| Top-rated, in a way | 19 |
| Top-roper's goal | 20 |
| Top-row key | 11 |
| Top-row PC key | 14 |
| Top-secret | 10 |
| Top-secret carpentry tool? | 26 |
| Top-secret commercial? | 22 |
| Top-secret govt. org. | 21 |
| Top-secret gp. | 14 |
| Top-secret grp. | 15 |
| Top-secret intelligence org. | 28 |
| Top-secret org. | 15 |
| Top-secret proverb? | 19 |
| Top-secret study revealed in 1971 | 33 |
| Top-secret study revealed to the public in 1971 | 47 |
| Top-secret turmoil? | 19 |
| Top-secret U.S. org. | 20 |
| Top-selling 1980s game console | 30 |
| Top-selling cookie | 18 |
| Top-selling cookie of the 20th century | 38 |
| Top-selling depilatory brand | 28 |
| Top-selling frozen waffle brand | 31 |
| Top-selling pop group of the '70s | 37 |
| Top-selling pop group of the 70's | 37 |
| Top-selling product | 19 |
| Top-selling Toyota | 18 |
| Top-selling U.S. cookie | 23 |
| Top-selling vocalist of the 1990's | 38 |
| Top-selling vocalist of the 1990s | 33 |
| Top-shelf | 9 |
| Top-shelf accommodations | 24 |
| Top-shelf item at a bar | 23 |
| Top-Sider bottom | 16 |
| Top-sider brand | 15 |
| Top-Sider, e.g. | 15 |
| Top-Siders' bottoms | 23 |
| Top-speed run | 13 |
| Top-story studio | 16 |
| Top-ten Prince hit | 18 |