| 100% | UNIVERSE | 8 | "Finding Our Place in the ___," nonfiction book by Helene Courtois about our galaxy's home |
| 37% | PACKING | 7 | "___ for Mars," nonfiction book by Mary Roach about living in space |
| 33% | MILKYWAY | 8 | Our place in the universe |
| 33% | HUMOR | 5 | "My Planet: Finding ___ in the Oddest Places" (essay collection by Mary Roach) |
| 33% | THESEAAROUNDUS | 14 | Best-selling book by 19-Across about the life history of our oceans: 4 wds. |
| 32% | HUMOR | 5 | Funny genre for "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" or "Good Omens"... or a book section you may find in the library |
| 31% | CASTE | 5 | “___: The Origins of Our Discontents” (Isabel Wilkerson book about social stratification in America) |
| 31% | ASS | 3 | "The ___ in the Lion's Skin," book by Aesop |
| 31% | HAT | 3 | "The Cat in the ___," children's book by Dr. Seuss |
| 31% | ZOOS | 4 | Only places to find anteaters in the U.S. |
| 31% | AKELA | 5 | Chief wolf in The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling |
| 31% | BALOO | 5 | Brown bear in The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling |
| 31% | KITCHEN | 7 | Place in the home for cooking, baking |
| 31% | THECAT | 6 | "__ in the Hat"; book by Seuss |
| 30% | HAT | 3 | "The Cat in the ___," children's book written by Dr. Seuss |
| 30% | KAA | 3 | Snake voiced by Scarlett in 2016's The Jungle Book |
| 30% | HEIDI | 5 | Children's book about a girl in the Swiss Alps |
| 30% | BURROWS | 7 | Homes in the ground made by rabbits, chipmunks... |
| 30% | OTTER | 5 | "To the River ___," poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge about the river near his childhood home in England |
| 30% | LOVEISALIVE | 11 | 1985 #1 country hit by the Judds about finding intimacy in daily routines: 3 wds. |
| 30% | MOWGLI | 6 | Boy raised by wolves in The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling |
| 30% | KANSAS | 6 | The "home" in "There's no place like home" |
| 30% | AAA | 3 | Org. found early in the phone book |
| 30% | TIMMY | 5 | Dog in The Famous Five children's book series by Enid Blyton |
| 29% | THEMISSINGPIECE | 15 | Book by 39-Across about finding and losing |
| 29% | MOWGLI | 6 | The boy in The Jungle Book who is raised by wolves |
| 29% | SHEREKHAN | 9 | Tiger voiced by Idris Elba in The Jungle Book |
| 29% | OURSTARS | 8 | The Fault in __, book by John Green |
| 29% | DUCHESS | 7 | 2017 book by Danielle Steel set in 19th century about a young woman, "The ___" |
| 29% | HEIROFFIRE | 10 | Third book by 43-Across in the 31-Across series about teenage assassin Celaena Sardothien in the fictional Kingdom of Adarlan (3 wds.) |