| 100% | THESUICIDE | 10 | & 10A Trilogy of Robert Louis Stevenson short stories first published in The London Magazine in 1878 |
| 36% | FINAL | 5 | & 16A The —, Sherlock Holmes story by Arthur Conan Doyle first published in the Strand Magazine in December 1893 |
| 33% | TOBUILDAFIRE | 12 | Jack London short story about survival in the Yukon Territory, and the goal of this puzzle? |
| 33% | BLAST | 5 | Literary magazine of the Vorticist art movement in Britain first published in 1914 |
| 31% | CROUCHEND | 9 | Area in the London Borough of Haringey that shares its name with a 1980 Stephen King short story |
| 31% | THEOPENBOAT | 11 | Stephen Crane short story first published in 1897 about four shipwrecked men |
| 30% | POLE | 4 | "The Captain of the ___-Star," short story by Arthur Conan Doyle that was published in the Temple Bar |
| 30% | HYDE | 4 | "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr ___," gothic novella by Robert Louis Stevenson which tells the story of a legal practitioner, Gabriel John Utterson |
| 29% | HYDE | 4 | Mr. in a Robert Louis Stevenson story |
| 29% | BLACK | 5 | & 12D The —, Robert Louis Stevenson novel subtitled A Tale of the Two Roses |
| 29% | MRHYDE | 6 | Evil alter ego in a Robert Louis Stevenson story |
| 29% | IMP | 3 | "The Bottle ___" (short story by Robert Louis Stevenson) |
| 29% | KINGJOHN | 8 | The Life and Death of —, stage play by William Shakespeare first published in 1623 |
| 29% | TOBUILDAFIRE | 12 | Jack London short story set in harsh winter conditions, and what the ends of 20-, 28-, and 47-Across can be used for |
| 28% | JAMESJOYCE | 10 | The first part of his ''Ulysses'' was published in 1918 |
| 28% | NORA | 4 | ___ Roberts, first inductee in the Romance Writers of America Hall of Fame |
| 28% | OSBOURNE | 8 | Lloyd —, stepson of Robert Louis Stevenson with whom he co-authored 1889 novel The Wrong Box |
| 28% | AGENTLEMANOF | 12 | & 8A 1910 P G Wodehouse novel first published in the US as The Intrusion of Jimmy |
| 27% | THEGOLDBUG | 10 | Short story by Edgar Allan Poe first published in 1843 whose central character is William Legrand |
| 27% | DEAD | 4 | "Shaun of the ___" (zombie comedy that's the first film in the "Cornetto Trilogy") |
| 27% | EMILYBRONTE | 11 | Author of novel Wuthering Heights, first published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell |
| 27% | DEAD | 4 | "Shaun of the ___" (2004 zombie comedy that's the first film in the Cornetto trilogy) |
| 27% | RSV | 3 | The English translation of the Bible which was published in 1952, for short |
| 27% | INN | 3 | "On Slide ___ Road," short story by Stephen King that was published in Esquire magazine in 2020 |