| 100% | COMEDY | 6 | "Divine ___," narrative poem by Dante Alighieri which is an inspiration for dark academia |
| 55% | CRIME | 5 | "___ and Punishment," novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky which is an inspiration for dark academia |
| 51% | OWN | 3 | "A Room of One's ___," essay by Virginia Woolf which is an inspiration for dark academia |
| 38% | COMEDY | 6 | Narrative poem by Dante: The Divine __ |
| 37% | WINTERDANCE | 11 | Non-fiction book written by Gary Paulsen which is an inspiration for the Disney movie, "Snow Dogs" |
| 28% | SLUG | 4 | Slow mollusk without a shell that was an inspiration for Jabba the Hutt |
| 28% | SONG | 4 | "Morning ___," poem by Sylvia Plath written in 1961 about an artist's freedom of expression which was included in the collection, "Ariel" |
| 28% | ISLAND | 6 | Poem by John Donne: No Man is an __ |
| 26% | CHRISTABEL | 10 | Poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge that was written using an accentual metrical system |
| 26% | WINTER | 6 | "___-Time," poem by R.L. Stevenson which is about Christmas season |
| 26% | FETA | 4 | Type of cheese which is an anagram for 'feat' |
| 26% | SCARLET | 7 | "The ___ Letter," historical fiction novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne that was an inspiration for the film "Easy A" |
| 25% | RAVEN | 5 | "The ___," gothic narrative poem by Edgar Allan Poe which follows the story of the titular talking bird |
| 25% | ASTHMA | 6 | Affliction for which an inhaler may be prescribed |
| 25% | ASTRONOMY | 9 | Poem by A. E. Housman which is also the study of celestial objects and space phenomena |
| 25% | ENDYMION | 8 | Poem by John Keats, that starts with "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever..." |
| 25% | GOOD | 4 | "___ 4 U," hit song by Olivia Rodrigo which was nominated for an MTV VMA |
| 25% | WEDNESDAY | 9 | "Ash ___," poem by T.S. Eliot which was written after his conversion to Anglicanism |
| 24% | KUNTAKINTE | 10 | Role for which LeVar Burton was nominated for an Emmy |
| 24% | YESNO | 5 | Like a question for which "maybe" is not an option |
| 24% | COW | 3 | Animal for which an arched-back yoga pose is named |
| 24% | UNESCO | 6 | Intl. grp. for which 47-Across was named an ambassador |
| 24% | LILACS | 6 | "When ___ Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," poem by Walt Whitman which is an elegy to Abraham Lincoln |
| 24% | BOOK | 4 | "The Ring and the ___," narrative poem written by Robert Browning that is set in Rome |
| 24% | ADDED | 5 | which were an ___ distraction. |
| 24% | TONYA | 5 | Title role for which Margot Robbie was nominated for an Oscar |
| 24% | ECG | 3 | Test that can be performed by an Apple Watch, for short |
| 24% | TITANIC | 7 | RMS ___, British passenger ship known for being sunk by an iceberg |
| 24% | MUNICH | 6 | 2005 espionage movie starring Eric Bana which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture |
| 24% | SKYFALL | 7 | 2012 espionage movie starring Daniel Craig which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Cinematography |