| 100% | DADDY | 5 | 1962 poem written by Sylvia Plath about the complex relationship with her father which was included in the collection, "Ariel" |
| 63% | TULIPS | 6 | 1961 poem written by Sylvia Plath about the flowers she received in a hospital which was included in the collection "Ariel" |
| 59% | OCTOBER | 7 | "Poppies in ____," poem written by Sylvia Plath about the complexities of life which is included in the collection, "Ariel" |
| 53% | SONG | 4 | "Morning ___," poem by Sylvia Plath written in 1961 about an artist's freedom of expression which was included in the collection, "Ariel" |
| 49% | LADY | 4 | "___ Lazarus," 1965 poem by Sylvia Plath in which she alludes to the mythical phoenix and which was included in the collection "Ariel" |
| 32% | LASTSONG | 8 | Novel by Nicholas Sparks about a 17 year old teen who is sent to stay with her father in the summer, "The ___": 2 wds. |
| 31% | THERE | 5 | "___ Was a Little Girl," autobiography written by Brooke Shields about her relationship with her mother |
| 30% | DECAY | 5 | "The ___ of Lying - An Observation," 1891 essay by Oscar Wilde which is included in his collection of essays, "Intentions" |
| 29% | SORROWSONG | 10 | Poem about the innocence of children by 49-Across in her 1987 Pulitzer Prize-nominated collection "Next: New Poems" (2 wds.) |
| 29% | NEUTRALTONES | 12 | 1867 melancholic poem written by Thomas Hardy about the end of a relationship: 2 wds. |
| 27% | MRSROBINSON | 11 | Song by Simon & Garfunkel which was included in the 1967 film "The Graduate" and originally appeared on the album "Bookends": 2 wds. |
| 27% | BOOK | 4 | "The Ring and the ___," narrative poem written by Robert Browning that is set in Rome |
| 26% | EARRING | 7 | "Girl with a Pearl ___," an oil painting by Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer which is housed in the Mauritshuis, The Hague |
| 26% | FEARS | 5 | "___ in Solitude," conversational poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge with notes of patriotism for the British people |
| 26% | KHAN | 4 | "Kubla ___," poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge which is also subtitled as "A Vision in a Dream" |
| 26% | GEORGEPEABODY | 13 | 19th-century research library in Baltimore which was funded by the father of modern philanthropy: 2 wds. |
| 26% | JETSONS | 7 | "The ___," animated sitcom produced by Hanna-Barbera which is about a family in the future |
| 25% | SURFINSAFARI | 12 | Hit released by The Beach Boys in 1962 which was featured in "American Graffiti" starring Richard Dreyfuss: 2 wds. |
| 25% | ROAD | 4 | "Song of the Open ___," poem by Walt Whitman which is about the expansion of America |
| 25% | MAN | 3 | "___ and Superman," four-act drama written in 1903 by George Bernard Shaw which is based on the Don Juan theme |
| 25% | TIGEREYES | 9 | Young adult novel by 38-Across about a girl coping with the death of her father (2 wds.) |
| 25% | ELM | 3 | Sylvia Plath poem that begins "I know the bottom, she says. I know it with my great tap root" |
| 25% | MEMOIR | 6 | Kind of book, written by 14-/18-Across in 1853 after being rescued, on which the movie is based |
| 25% | USEDTOLOVEYOU | 13 | Gwen Stefani's song which was inspired by her earlier relationship with singer Gavin Rossdale: 4 wds. |
| 25% | SONOFMAN | 8 | Magritte work in which a face is obscured by an apple, with The |
| 25% | UPSIDEDOWN | 10 | An 80s hit by Diana Ross from her tenth album "Diana" and which was written by the duo from "Chic": 2 wds. |
| 25% | BRIEFHISTORYOF | 14 | "A ___Time," 1988 book on cosmology by Stephen Hawking which is written in a non-technical way for the masses: 3 wds. |
| 24% | LILACS | 6 | "When ___ Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," poem by Walt Whitman which is an elegy to Abraham Lincoln |
| 24% | HOMAGETOMYHIPS | 14 | Poem about body autonomy by 49-Across in her 1980 Juniper Prize-winning collection "Two-Headed Woman" (4 wds.) |
| 24% | MADDINGCROWD | 12 | "Far from the ____," 1874 novel by Thomas Hardy which is about the farming community in Victorian England: 2 wds. |