| 100% | FICTION | 7 | "The Great Gatsby" genre... or a book section you may find in the library |
| 90% | ROMANCE | 7 | "The Notebook" genre... or a book section you may find in the library |
| 90% | TRAVEL | 6 | "Eat, Pray, Love" genre... or a book section you may find in the library |
| 89% | SCI | 3 | ___-fi, "The Three-Body Problem" genre... or a book section you may find in the library |
| 85% | 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 |
| 82% | POETRY | 6 | Haikus, odes, e.g.... or a book section you may find in the library |
| 55% | FICTION | 7 | Library section where you might find books belonging to the genres at 16a, 41a, 53a, and 7d |
| 45% | COIL | 4 | Helix you may find in a heater or under your mattress |
| 44% | BOOK | 4 | What you find in a library, or a word which can be used at the start of 20a, 25a, 35a, 48a, 55a, 31d, and 45d |
| 44% | GLUEDTOTHETV | 12 | Where your eyes might stay during a suspenseful scene … or the only place you'll find the "eyes" in this puzzle |
| 44% | ATLAS | 5 | A book in which you find the map of the world |
| 43% | MOOCOW | 6 | Animal you might find only in a book for young children? |
| 42% | WHIP | 4 | A long instrument made of rope or leather that you would find in the hands of a lion tamer |
| 42% | PRODUCE | 7 | Grocery store section in which you might find the ends of the starred answers |
| 41% | LEFTOFCENTER | 12 | Somewhat liberal, or where you might find the first words in the answers to starred clues |
| 41% | BANDS | 5 | *Elastic loops that you might find snapped or tangled at the bottom of a junk drawer |
| 40% | RAGGEDYCANDY | 12 | *What you might find at the bottom of a trick-or-treater's bag? |
| 40% | AFTERLIFE | 9 | The great beyond ... or where each word in 17-, 24-, 35- and 45-Across might be found? |
| 39% | SPOILERALERT | 12 | Warning you might find in a review |
| 39% | ANT | 3 | Insect you might find in a kitchen |
| 39% | MOTH | 4 | Butterfly cousin you might find in a closet |
| 39% | ANT | 3 | Insect you might find in a kitchen pantry |
| 39% | CHANDLERBIN | 11 | Where you might find cheap copies of "The Big Sleep" in a bookstore? |
| 39% | GREETINGCARDS | 13 | Hallmark products … or a hint to what to find in the circled squares |
| 38% | ART | 3 | "Works of ___," pieces you may find in a gallery |
| 38% | FETA | 4 | Crumbly cheese you might find in a watermelon salad |
| 38% | ROAD | 4 | You may find a fork in it |
| 38% | NUT | 3 | You might find it in a shell |
| 38% | LOST | 4 | ___-and-found box, something you might find in a school |
| 38% | DOVEBAR | 7 | Something you might find in your freezer or your shower |