| 100% | LAND | 4 | "The Waste ___," poem by T.S. Eliot that is considered a seminal work for modernist poetry |
| 62% | HOWL | 4 | Poem by Allen Ginsberg that is considered a seminal work for the Beat Generation |
| 52% | WALDEN | 6 | Book by Henry David Thoreau that is considered a seminal work for transcendentalism |
| 48% | OTRANTO | 7 | "The Castle of ___," novel by Horace Walpole that is considered a seminal work for gothic fiction |
| 44% | LAND | 4 | "The Waste ___," poem by T.S. Eliot which has the famous line "April is the cruellest month" |
| 42% | MEN | 3 | "The Hollow ___," poem by T.S. Eliot which has the famous lines "...This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but with a whimper" |
| 38% | LAND | 4 | "The Waste ___," poem by T.S. Eliot |
| 38% | QUARTETS | 8 | "Four ___," set of poems by T.S. Eliot which were published over a period of six years |
| 37% | WASTELAND | 9 | The —, modernist poem in five sections by T S Eliot first published in 1922 |
| 36% | STEARNS | 7 | Middle name of T S Eliot, author of 1922 poem The Waste Land |
| 34% | THESEVENAGES | 12 | Collection by 36-Across that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2002 (3 wds.) |
| 34% | PRUFROCK | 8 | "The Love Song of J. Alfred ___," poem by T.S. Eliot which was his first published poem |
| 34% | WEDNESDAY | 9 | "Ash ___," poem by T.S. Eliot which was written after his conversion to Anglicanism |
| 33% | ENDYMION | 8 | Poem by John Keats, that starts with "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever..." |
| 33% | ANNE | 4 | Carson who won the 2001 T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry |
| 33% | CATS | 4 | Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1981 creation that was based on a T.S. Eliot poetry collection |
| 33% | ETHER | 5 | Anesthetic that used to be used by dentists, or a term for the sky |
| 32% | COTTONEYEDJOE | 13 | Traditional American folk song that was the inspiration for a 1994 hit by Swedish band Rednex: 2 wds., hyph. |
| 31% | JELLICLES | 9 | T S Eliot's cats that meet up at a ball |
| 31% | ANNABELLEE | 10 | Classic poem that begins "It was many and many a year ago / In a kingdom by the sea" |
| 31% | SHE | 3 | "___ Works Hard for the Money," song by Donna Summer that is about a hardworking woman |
| 31% | RAZORS | 6 | Bathroom items that might be confiscated by the T.S.A. |
| 31% | MOE | 3 | The Simpson's bartender that is a homophone for 27d |
| 30% | LOIS | 4 | When I discovered that my son's school was built on a toxic waste dump, I fought for the cleanup of Love Canal and got more than 800 families evacuated |
| 30% | ANN | 3 | "Raggedy" doll that was inspired by a poem |
| 30% | SNIGLET | 7 | Term for a word that isn't in the dictionary but should be |
| 30% | PIPELINE | 8 | Place for works that are in the works ... or what the message formed by the connected letters is? |
| 30% | PECS | 4 | Muscles that are worked by bench presses, for short |
| 30% | IDS | 3 | Cards that are checked by the TSA, for short |
| 30% | CERES | 5 | Body in our solar system that was considered a planet in the first half of the 19th century |