| 100% | REACH | 5 | "When You ___ Me" (Newbery-winning novel by Rebecca Stead) |
| 55% | STEAD | 5 | "When You Reach Me" Newbery Medal winner Rebecca |
| 55% | QUESTIONS | 9 | I Have Some __ For You, novel by Rebecca Makkai |
| 43% | HARRIETHUME | 11 | 1929 novel by Rebecca West |
| 43% | THEJUDGE | 8 | 1922 novel by Rebecca West |
| 41% | THEOLDDEVILS | 12 | 1986 Booker Prize winning novel by Kingsley Amis |
| 38% | GIVE | 4 | "(When You Gonna) ___ It Up to Me," 2006 song by Sean Paul featuring Keyshia Cole |
| 38% | LOST | 4 | "Call Me If You Get ___," album by Tyler, the Creator that won the Grammy Award for Best Rap Album in 2022 |
| 37% | HEADS | 5 | "___ I win, tails you lose" |
| 37% | NAME | 4 | "Call Me by Your ___" (André Aciman novel adapted into an Oscar-winning film) |
| 37% | PEGGYLEE | 8 | Singer known for Fever, when you hold me tight |
| 37% | CLAP | 4 | "___ When You Land" (Elizabeth Acevedo novel-in-verse) |
| 37% | OUR | 3 | Shared by you and me |
| 37% | OURS | 4 | Shared by you and me |
| 37% | OUR | 3 | Owned by you and me |
| 37% | TAILS | 5 | "Heads I win, ___ you lose" |
| 36% | LESS | 4 | Novel by Andrew Sean Greer that won the Pulitzer Prize in 2018 |
| 36% | IBEAM | 5 | Construction piece that describes what happens when you compliment me? |
| 36% | ETAS | 4 | "Here's when you can pick me up" stats (Abbr.) |
| 36% | ARE | 3 | I won't use it, but you will |
| 36% | OURS | 4 | Owned jointly by you and me |
| 36% | GRAMMARIAN | 10 | *One nettled by you and I? |
| 36% | POSTCARDS | 9 | Novel by 29-Across that won the 1992 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction |
| 36% | THEOVERSTORY | 12 | Novel by 30-Across that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2 wds.) |
| 36% | SKI | 3 | Water ___ (sports gear used when you're towed by a speedboat) |
| 36% | CUJO | 4 | 1981 novel by Stephen King that won the British Fantasy Award |
| 36% | NEEDED | 6 | "You left me just when I ___ you most" |
| 35% | WAKE | 4 | "___ Me Up Before You Go-Go" by Wham! |
| 35% | NOI | 3 | "___ won't be afraid" ("Stand by Me" lyric) |
| 35% | IGO | 3 | "Will you miss me when ___?": 2 wds. |