| 100% | HUMOR | 5 | "My Planet: Finding ___ in the Oddest Places" (essay collection by Mary Roach) |
| 36% | SKETCH | 6 | & 5D The — of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent, collection of essays by Washington Irving first published in 1819 |
| 35% | MARINE | 6 | Found in or produced by the sea |
| 35% | MARINE | 6 | Found in, or produced by the sea |
| 35% | MAINSTREET | 10 | Top 40 song by 46-Across with the lyrics "I drift back in time and I find my feet" |
| 34% | PACKING | 7 | "___ for Mars," nonfiction book by Mary Roach about living in space |
| 33% | ATTIC | 5 | "A Light in the ___" (poem collection by Shel Silverstein) |
| 33% | ATTIC | 5 | "A Light in the ___" (poetry collection by Shel Silverstein) |
| 33% | SLIM | 4 | Like the odds of finding a needle in a haystack |
| 33% | FLICKA | 6 | Wild horse tamed in the book by Mary O'Hara |
| 32% | FLICKA | 6 | Horse to be tamed in the book by Mary O'Hara |
| 32% | MONGO | 5 | Planet ruled by Ming the Merciless in "Flash Gordon" |
| 32% | LAWS | 4 | Rules put in place by the government |
| 32% | CHOLESTEROL | 11 | Solid found in most body tissues that is synthesized by the liver |
| 32% | EMIL | 4 | Name found by reversing the letters in "lime" |
| 32% | COCAS | 5 | Leaves from these plants were often found in the mouths and in bags carried by Inca mummies |
| 31% | THEWILDIRIS | 11 | Collection by 36-Across that won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1993 (3 wds.) |
| 31% | DECAY | 5 | "The ___ of Lying - An Observation," 1891 essay by Oscar Wilde which is included in his collection of essays, "Intentions" |
| 31% | INSITU | 6 | Found undisturbed in the natural original place: 2 wds. |
| 31% | UNIVERSE | 8 | "Finding Our Place in the ___," nonfiction book by Helene Courtois about our galaxy's home |
| 31% | LOOK | 4 | "___ Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's" (memoir by John Elder Robison) |
| 31% | ALBEDO | 6 | In physics, the fraction of the incoming light reflected by a planet |
| 31% | FREE | 4 | "Feel ___," collection of essays by Zadie Smith published in 2018 |
| 31% | EAST | 4 | Direction you'll find by rearranging the letters in "seat" |
| 30% | EUREKA | 6 | Name of Dorothy's cat in The Wizard of Oz, originally found by Uncle Henry |
| 30% | LOOKUP | 6 | Find in the dictionary |
| 30% | SILMARILLION | 12 | The —, collection of works by J R R Tolkien published posthumously in 1977 |
| 30% | NECK | 4 | "Drop by if you're ever in my ___ of the woods" |
| 30% | THESEVENAGES | 12 | Collection by 36-Across that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2002 (3 wds.) |