| 100% | UNFOLDS | 7 | "As the story ___," becomes clear |
| 58% | SWAB | 4 | Clear, as the deck |
| 57% | SKIPTO | 6 | Reach prematurely, as the end of the story |
| 57% | PLOW | 4 | Clear off the road, as snow |
| 56% | BIOGRAPHY | 9 | The story of one person's life as told by another |
| 56% | ERASE | 5 | Clear the contents of, as a laptop |
| 56% | EPIC | 4 | Story such as the Ramayana |
| 56% | FALLINTOPLACE | 13 | Become clear ... or make like the object represented by the circled letters |
| 55% | RUNYON | 6 | Damon who wrote the stories adapted as "Guys and Dolls" |
| 55% | ERASE | 5 | Clear the contents of, as a hard drive |
| 55% | IONIZES | 7 | Becomes charged, as the atmosphere |
| 55% | WAX | 3 | Become full, as the moon |
| 54% | FRAY | 4 | Become ragged at the edges, as a rope would |
| 54% | AWEIGH | 6 | Just clear of the seabed, as anchors |
| 54% | OPEN | 4 | In the clear, as a pass receiver |
| 53% | LION | 4 | Carnivore such as Aslan in the "Narnia" stories |
| 51% | WANE | 4 | Become less bright, as the moon |
| 51% | WAX | 3 | Become more intense, as the moon |
| 51% | WANE | 4 | Become less full, as the moon |
| 50% | WILD | 4 | "The ___ Asses of the Devil," 1915 short story by H.G. Wells |
| 49% | EYRE | 4 | "Jane ___," novel by Charlotte Bronte which tells the story of the eponymous character as a governess |
| 49% | KENNEDY | 7 | A L —, author of story collections All the Rage and What Becomes |
| 48% | WANE | 4 | Become less bright, as the moon (anagram of "anew") |
| 48% | LEASALONGA | 10 | As Kim in “Miss Saigon,” she became the first Asian woman to win a Tony |
| 47% | EMERGES | 7 | Becomes clear |
| 47% | SOAKSIN | 7 | Becomes clear |
| 47% | SINKSIN | 7 | Becomes clear |
| 47% | DAWNS | 5 | Becomes clear |
| 47% | EMRGES | 6 | Becomes clear |
| 47% | COMEINTOFOCUS | 13 | Become clear |