| 100% | DARKNESS | 8 | "The Whisperer in ___," 1931 novella by H.P. Lovecraft about extraterrestrial fungoid creatures |
| 49% | SHADOW | 6 | "The ___ over Innsmouth," 1936 novella by H.P. Lovecraft about a malign undersea civilization |
| 49% | MOUND | 5 | "The ___," 1940 novella by H.P. Lovecraft about a headless ghost and subterranean civilization |
| 36% | CTHULHU | 7 | "The Call of ___" (short story by H. P. Lovecraft) |
| 36% | HORROR | 6 | "The ___ at Red Hook," 1927 short story by H.P. Lovecraft about a sinister cult |
| 36% | CASE | 4 | "The ___ of Charles Dexter Ward," 1943 novel by H.P. Lovecraft about an alleged wizard |
| 33% | MACHINE | 7 | "The Time ___," 1895 science fiction novella by H.G. Wells about time travel |
| 31% | TIMBUKTU | 8 | 1999 novella by Paul Auster about Mr Bones the dog |
| 31% | PARENTAL | 8 | The P in PALs, warning about explicit lyrics |
| 30% | BALROG | 6 | Creature slain in the Mines of Moria by Gandalf |
| 30% | YETI | 4 | Creature in a fringe theory about the Dyatlov Pass incident |
| 30% | DRONESCLUB | 10 | The —, gentlemen’s club in stories by P G Wodehouse |
| 29% | UNIVERSE | 8 | 1941 novella by Robert A Heinlein republished in 1963 novel Orphans of the Sky |
| 29% | GRENDEL | 7 | Monstrous creature slain by Beowulf in the Anglo-Saxon epic |
| 28% | AUNTS | 5 | Dahlia and Agatha, in the Jeeves novels by P. G. Wodehouse |
| 28% | NEWT | 4 | Creature mentioned by the witches in "Macbeth" |
| 28% | FLINTSTONES | 11 | "The ___," animated show produced by Hanna-Barbera about a family in the Stone Age |
| 28% | CAMOUFLAGE | 10 | "Trick" used by the creatures found in rows 3, 5, 11 and 13 |
| 28% | LASTLETTERS | 11 | Explanatory information about this puzzle is revealed by reading these in the clues |
| 28% | FUTURAMA | 8 | Popular animated sitcom created by Matt Groening about Earth in the year 3000 |
| 28% | SONS | 4 | Word in the titles of novels by Ivan Turgenev and D. H. Lawrence |
| 27% | BIGFOOT | 7 | Creature played by both Andre the Giant and Ted Cassidy in "The Six Million Dollar Man" |
| 27% | JETSONS | 7 | "The ___," animated sitcom produced by Hanna-Barbera which is about a family in the future |
| 27% | EPIGONI | 7 | Play by Sophocles about the sons of the Seven against Thebes in Greek legend |
| 27% | FLYING | 6 | With 36-Down, creature voiced by Zach Braff in "Oz the Great and Powerful" |
| 27% | SPODE | 5 | Roderick —, leader of fascist group The Black Shorts in stories by P G Wodehouse |
| 27% | RIGHTHO | 7 | & 15A 1934 novel by P G Wodehouse published in the US as Brinkley Manor |
| 27% | DOUBLE | 6 | "The ___," novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky first published in 1846 |
| 27% | BEANIEBABY | 10 | Item created by H. Ty Warner in 1993, which, by the late nineties, had become a world-wide fad |