| 100% | NED | 3 | American author ___ Vizzini who authored "It's Kind of a Funny Story" |
| 72% | NED | 3 | "It's Kind of a Funny Story" novelist Vizzini |
| 58% | KIND | 4 | Ned Vizzini's novel It's __ of a Funny Story |
| 53% | STORY | 5 | "It's kind of a funny ___ ..." |
| 49% | STORY | 5 | "It's Kind of a Funny ___," 2010 comedy-drama film starring Zach Galifianakis as Bobby |
| 46% | NEIL | 4 | ___ Gaiman, "American Gods" author who created a crowdsourced story project called "A Calendar of Tales" |
| 44% | MIEKO | 5 | Author Kawakami who wrote “Heaven,” a story of teen-age bullying (trans. May, 2021) |
| 43% | SOB | 3 | Kind of a sad story |
| 43% | THECIDERHOUSELURES | 18 | Story of a youth who says to hell with it and goes to the pub? |
| 42% | SCOTTJUREK | 10 | American ultramarathoner and bestselling author of "Eat & Run" who has been a vegan since 1999: 2 wds. |
| 40% | KARENINA | 8 | Anna __, Tolstoy's story of a wife who strays |
| 40% | GHOST | 5 | ___ Rider, Latin American Marvel superhero who is a character in "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." |
| 40% | FRO | 3 | Kind of 'do it's really tough to wear a beanie with |
| 39% | PORTNOYSCOMPLIANT | 17 | Story of a Jewish bachelor who's solicitous of his mother's wishes? |
| 39% | VET | 3 | Kind of doc who'd have a look at Scooby Doo's problems |
| 39% | CAVITYSAM | 9 | It's who you operate on in a game of Operation |
| 38% | POE | 3 | American author of macabre short stories |
| 38% | AESOP | 5 | Author of a hare racing story |
| 38% | TWOPAIR | 7 | It loses to three of a kind |
| 38% | MILLER | 6 | American author of Death of a Salesman |
| 38% | ANTHONYBOURDAIN | 15 | Author/TV personality who wrote "Your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park" |
| 38% | ALCOTT | 6 | Author of "Jo's Boys" Louisa May ___ who wrote under the pen name A.M. Barnard |
| 38% | GRITS | 5 | It's kind of corny |
| 38% | ABRONXTALE | 10 | Robert De Niro's crime film about the story of a young Italian-American boy who gets involved in organized crime: 3 wds. |
| 37% | FRANK | 5 | American poet ___ O'Hara who authored "Why I Am Not A Painter" |
| 37% | BARACK | 6 | "Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance" author who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009 |
| 37% | TWOPAIR | 7 | Three of a kind beats it |
| 37% | BOWEL | 5 | It's part of a canal |
| 37% | MAYO | 4 | It's part of a club |
| 37% | TRIO | 4 | It's short of a quartet |