| 100% | CHAN | 4 | "Keeper of the Keys" was the last novel he was featured in |
| 59% | MRMOTO | 6 | The last novel featuring him was "Stopover: Tokyo" |
| 54% | RONSTADT | 8 | Linda whose "Long, Long Time" is featured in the Last of Us episode of the same name |
| 52% | DEPART | 6 | What the last words of eight key answers in this puzzle are slangy synonyms of |
| 52% | NEWYEAR | 7 | What the last four letters of eight key answers in this puzzle might be considered, cryptically |
| 51% | BARRYBONDS | 10 | Considered one of the greatest in baseball, he was a key figure in the BALCO(steroids) scandal: 2 wds. |
| 51% | POPES | 5 | 10 featured last names in this puzzle are also the names of these |
| 50% | ALI | 3 | He was bested in the "Fight of the Century" |
| 49% | ISLANDS | 7 | "___ in the Sky," 1952 sci-fi novel by Arthur C. Clarke that is set in the later half of the 21st century |
| 49% | WRATH | 5 | "The Grapes of ___," novel by John Steinbeck, set in the Great Depression, that was a major reason for him winning the Nobel Prize |
| 49% | UNCAS | 5 | The last of the Mohicans, in Cooper's novel |
| 49% | TSARS | 5 | Nicholas II was the last of them in Russia |
| 48% | DANIELDERONDA | 13 | Last novel completed by George Eliot which is the only known novel by her set in the contemporary Victorian society of her time: 2 wds. |
| 48% | IDIAMIN | 7 | The Last King of Scotland, in the 1998 Foden novel |
| 48% | BRITISHPRIMEMINISTERS | 21 | Eight of their last names are featured in this puzzle |
| 48% | ARMS | 4 | What are featured in the theme entries of this puzzle |
| 48% | QUEEN | 5 | Zewditu was the last of these in Ethiopia, until 1930 |
| 48% | CAPS | 4 | Feature of the last word in this CLUE |
| 48% | EVEL | 4 | First name of the role George Hamilton played in a 1971 movie where he stated "I am the last gladiator in the new Rome" |
| 48% | OLIVERREED | 10 | Actor whose first name is the title of a Best Picture he co-starred in, and whose last name is that film's director |
| 48% | ONO | 3 | Yoko who is featured in the upcoming movie "Isle of Dogs" |
| 47% | IGNITION | 8 | Part of a vehicle the key is pushed in to start it |
| 47% | MIDAS | 5 | He was given the ears of a donkey, in myth |
| 46% | PIGASUS | 7 | Winged porcine in the later Land of Oz novels |
| 46% | RELIGIOUSLEADERS | 16 | Keepers of the faith, and what can be found in the answers to the starred clues |
| 46% | LIVES | 5 | "Best Years of Our ___," song covered by Baha Men that was featured in the "Shrek" franchise |
| 46% | MERLOT | 6 | Red wine that was featured in the film "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" |
| 46% | SARAPARETSKY | 12 | Author of "Brush Back," the latest of 17 novels featuring 38-Across: 2 wds. |
| 46% | ARETE | 5 | The Minarets are this type of feature, prominent in California's Ansel Adams Wilderness |
| 46% | ASTERIX | 7 | He is the theme of park north of Paris opened in 1989 |