| 100% | BELL | 4 | "For Whom the ___ Tolls," novel by Ernest Hemingway about a volunteer attached to a guerrilla unit during Spanish Civil War |
| 48% | TOLLS | 5 | "For Whom the Bell ___," novel by Ernest Hemingway, set in the Spanish Civil War and is regarded as one of his best works |
| 43% | FAREWELL | 8 | "A ___ to Arms," novel by Ernest Hemingway set during the Italian campaign of World War I |
| 43% | WHOM | 4 | For __ the Bell Tolls, a novel by Ernest Hemingway |
| 37% | COLDMOUNTAIN | 12 | One of the best-selling historical novels of the 90s written by Charles Frazier about a soldier's journey back home during the Civil war: 2 wds. |
| 36% | BELLTOLLS | 9 | Hemingway's Spanish Civil War book For Whom The __ |
| 35% | BETTER | 6 | "___ Than the Movies," novel by Lynn Painter about a young woman who wants to make movie soundtracks |
| 35% | FOR | 3 | "___ Whom the Bell Tolls," novel by Ernest Hemingway |
| 34% | BELL | 4 | "For Whom the ___ Tolls" by Ernest Hemingway |
| 34% | SUNALSORISES | 12 | "The ___," novel by Ernest Hemingway (birthday today) about expatriates traveling to Pamplona to watch the running of the bulls: 3 wds. |
| 34% | BELLTOLLS | 9 | For Whom The __, Ernest Hemingway novel |
| 34% | LASTSONG | 8 | Novel by Nicholas Sparks about a 17 year old teen who is sent to stay with her father in the summer, "The ___": 2 wds. |
| 33% | CALL | 4 | "The ___ of the Wild," short adventure novel by Jack London about a pet dog who has to survive the frozen wilderness along the Yukon Trail |
| 32% | BELLTOLLS | 9 | For whom the __, 1940 Ernest Hemingway novel |
| 32% | KINGOFSCARS | 11 | 2019 fantasy novel by 30-Across about a young ruler with dark powers trying to rebuild his country after a civil war (3 wds.) |
| 31% | OLDMANAND | 9 | "The ___ the Sea," short novel by Ernest Hemingway which tells the story of a Cuban fisherman: 3 wds. |
| 31% | AFAREWELL | 9 | "___ to Arms," a 1932 romance starring Gary Cooper and Helen Hayes, based on Ernest Hemingway's novel by the same name: 2 wds. |
| 31% | FOR | 3 | "___ Whom the Bell Tolls," Ernest Hemingway novel |
| 30% | AFAREWELLTOARMS | 15 | Ernest Hemingway novel set during the First World War |
| 30% | THELITTLELIAR | 13 | Novel by 43-Across about a boy who always tells the truth (3 wds.) |
| 30% | GUERNICA | 8 | Town destroyed in 1937 by German bombers during the Spanish Civil War |
| 30% | HAND | 4 | "The ___ of Ethelberta: A Comedy in Chapters," 1876 novel by Thomas Hardy about Ethelberta who reinvents herself to find a perfect match |
| 30% | SHINING | 7 | "The ___," horror novel by Stephen King about a family's trip in the peak of winter to a desolate hotel |
| 30% | OLDMAN | 6 | *"The ___ and the Sea," 1952 novel by Ernest Hemingway that was adapted into a 1958 film: 2 wds. |
| 30% | CORFE | 5 | & 16D Village on the Isle of Purbeck, Dorset, housing a fortification famous for its defence by Lady Bankes against a parliamentary army during the English Civil War |
| 29% | CILKASJOURNEY | 13 | Novel by 15-Across about a woman who is sent to Siberia after surviving Auschwitz (2 wds.) |
| 29% | THEANTIDOTE | 11 | 2025 novel by 30-Across about a Nebraska town during the Great Depression: 2 wds. |
| 29% | JUDE | 4 | "___ the Obscure," novel by Thomas Hardy about, published in 1895 a working-class young man who dreams of becoming a scholar |
| 29% | GUERNICA | 8 | Town east of Bilbao bombed by German planes in April, 1937 during the Spanish Civil War |
| 29% | BELOVED | 7 | 1987 novel by 43-Across about an African-American family after the Civil War |