| 100% | STAY | 4 | "Reasons to ___ Alive" (2015 novel/memoir by writer Matt Haig) |
| 50% | STAY | 4 | Matt Haig's "Reasons to ___ Alive" |
| 36% | ECHOBOY | 7 | 2014 children's novel by Matt Haig |
| 36% | BONEGAP | 7 | 2015 novel by Laura Ruby |
| 36% | CARRYING | 8 | 2015 novel by Theodore Weesner |
| 36% | UNDERCOVER | 10 | 2015 novel by Danielle Steel |
| 36% | MOVINGON | 8 | 2015 novel by Rosie Harris |
| 35% | STOP | 4 | "How to ___ Time" (Matt Haig novel) |
| 34% | THESHEPHERDS | 12 | & 19A 2015 novel by Terry Pratchett |
| 34% | INMY | 4 | & 7A 2015 novel by Alex Hourston |
| 33% | LAST | 4 | "The Heart Goes ___," 2015 novel by Margaret Atwood in which people have to swap their homes with prison cells every month in a dystopian future |
| 32% | PRECIOUSGIFTS | 13 | 2015 best-selling novel by 29-Across |
| 32% | COLUMBIAROAD | 12 | 2002 novel by Matt Whyman |
| 31% | PHIL | 4 | "Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike" writer Knight |
| 31% | ANGELS | 6 | Novel by E. M. Forster: Where __ Fear to Tread |
| 30% | WHY | 3 | "Thirteen Reasons ___" (YA novel by Jay Asher) |
| 30% | LARKRISE | 8 | __ to Candleford, gentle novel by Flora Thompson |
| 30% | BERLIN | 6 | "Goodbye to ___," 1939 novel by Christopher Isherwood |
| 30% | THEBURIEDGIANT | 14 | 2015 novel by 41-Across featuring a married couple struggling with memory (3 wds.) |
| 30% | THENIGHTINGALE | 14 | 2015 novel by 44-Across set in France during World War II (2 wds.) |
| 30% | STYLE | 5 | 2015 song by Taylor Swift that pays homage to disco |
| 30% | ROSEWATER | 9 | 2023 novel by London-born writer Liv Little |
| 30% | MERRY | 5 | Happy to find this writer right by railway |
| 29% | HOMAGE | 6 | "___ to Catalonia," 1938 political non-fiction novel by George Orwell |
| 29% | BELOVED | 7 | "Journey to ___," novel by Oprah Winfrey published in 1998 |
| 29% | AMYTAN | 6 | Writer whose first novel was adapted as a film by Wayne Wang |
| 29% | DOYLE | 5 | Writer pressured by fans to bring Sherlock Holmes back from the dead |
| 29% | WORLDS | 6 | The War of the __, novel by UK writer HG Wells |
| 29% | ATIMETOKILL | 11 | First novel by lawyer and writer 38-Across: 4 wds. |
| 29% | EAT | 3 | "How to ___ Fried Worms" (children's novel by Thomas Rockwell) |