| 100% | FEARS | 5 | "___ in Solitude," conversational poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge with notes of patriotism for the British people |
| 42% | FROST | 5 | "___ at Midnight," conversational poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge that speaks of neoplatonism |
| 41% | WILLIAM | 7 | "To ___ Wordsworth," poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in response to Wordsworth's autobiographical poem "The Prelude" |
| 41% | HARP | 4 | "The Eolian ___," poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge that discusses his anticipation of conjugal love |
| 39% | KUBLA | 5 | "___ Khan," poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge with the line "...and drunk the milk of Paradise." |
| 38% | RIME | 4 | "The ___ of Ancient Mariner," poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| 38% | KHAN | 4 | "Kubla ___," poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge which is also subtitled as "A Vision in a Dream" |
| 31% | LEGALIZED | 9 | With 20 Across, what the people of AZ, NJ, MT, and SD voted for by proposition in 2020 |
| 31% | CHRISTABEL | 10 | Poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge that was written using an accentual metrical system |
| 31% | ANCIENT | 7 | "The Rime of the ___ Mariner," old poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| 31% | OTTER | 5 | "To the River ___," poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge about the river near his childhood home in England |
| 29% | DADDY | 5 | 1962 poem written by Sylvia Plath about the complex relationship with her father which was included in the collection, "Ariel" |
| 28% | ALPH | 4 | Sacred river in the Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem Kubla Khan |
| 27% | THERIMEOFTHE | 12 | , 8A & 21A Long poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge first published in 1798 volume Lyrical Ballads |
| 27% | FOLKLORE | 8 | Album by Taylor Swift which won the Grammy for Album of the Year in 2021 |
| 27% | BLOOD | 5 | "Bad ___," song by Taylor Swift that won an MTV VMA for Video of the Year in 2015 |
| 27% | ODES | 4 | Poems written in praise of a person |
| 26% | IRISEIRISEIRISE | 15 | Last three lines of the Angelou poem that starts: "You may write me down in history / With your bitter, twisted lies" |
| 25% | SONG | 4 | "Morning ___," poem by Sylvia Plath written in 1961 about an artist's freedom of expression which was included in the collection, "Ariel" |
| 25% | OCTOBER | 7 | "Poppies in ____," poem written by Sylvia Plath about the complexities of life which is included in the collection, "Ariel" |
| 25% | NEUTRALTONES | 12 | 1867 melancholic poem written by Thomas Hardy about the end of a relationship: 2 wds. |
| 25% | NIB | 3 | The very end of a pen, for writing with |
| 24% | SPRINKLERHEAD | 13 | Firefighter's term for the person in charge of ice cream toppers? |
| 24% | MICHAELKEATON | 13 | Actor who shared SAG Awards for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Motion Picture with the casts of 18-Across and 33-Across (2 wds.) |
| 24% | ENOSIS | 6 | Movement for the union of Cyprus with Greece that began in the 1930s |
| 24% | ALPH | 4 | Sacred river in Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem Kubla Khan |
| 24% | SPITFIRE | 8 | British aircraft designed by Reginald Mitchell used in the Battle of Britain |
| 24% | MINIM | 5 | In music, a note with the time value of half a semibreve |
| 24% | VMA | 3 | Award in the shape of a Moon Person, for short |