| 100% | ASSONANCE | 9 | Attribute of poet's lines/Whose final words are not quite rhymes |
| 35% | HEINE | 5 | Poet whose last words were "Of course [God] will forgive me; that's his business" |
| 33% | ACHRISTMASCAROL | 15 | Novella whose final words are found in the circled squares |
| 32% | WOE | 3 | "Wednesday's child is full of ___" (nursery rhyme line) |
| 31% | ATOY | 4 | "That is not __!": parents' words of warning |
| 29% | RUMI | 4 | Persian poet whose epitaph reads "When we are dead, seek not our tomb in the earth, but find it in the hearts of men" |
| 29% | CARRERA | 7 | Line of Porsches whose name is Spanish for "race" |
| 29% | OHARA | 5 | Scarlett whose final film words are "I'll never be hungry again" |
| 29% | DANTE | 5 | Poet whose best-known work is 14,233 lines long |
| 29% | VERSE | 5 | Poet's lines (anagram of "serve") |
| 28% | ANTONYM | 7 | A word whose meaning is the opposite of another |
| 28% | LEONE | 5 | Second word of a country whose capital is Freetown |
| 28% | AMEN | 4 | Final word of the Lord's Prayer |
| 28% | ODE | 3 | Poet's words of praise |
| 28% | ASSONANT | 8 | Not quite rhyming |
| 28% | XERES | 5 | City whose name was the source of the word "sherry" |
| 28% | WARIO | 5 | Video-game antagonist whose name is a portmanteau of the protagonist's name and the Japanese word for "bad" |
| 28% | EDEN | 4 | Final word of Twain's ''Eve's Diary'' |
| 27% | HOPONPOP | 8 | Book whose last line is "Ask me tomorrow but not today" |
| 27% | XERES | 5 | Spanish city whose name is the source of the word sherry |
| 27% | WOE | 3 | "Wednesday's child is full of ___" (line from a nursery rhyme) |
| 27% | AMUSED | 6 | "We are not __" (Queen Victoria's line) |
| 27% | FIB | 3 | Be not quite 100% truthful |
| 27% | POEM | 4 | Short literary piece where the last words of each line may rhyme |
| 27% | MEGRYAN | 7 | Actress whose name is an anagram of the word "Germany": 2 wds. |
| 27% | ALGREEN | 7 | Singer whose name is an anagram of the word "general": 2 wds. |
| 27% | EDASNER | 7 | Actor whose name is an anagram of the word "endears": 2 wds. |
| 27% | PEZ | 3 | Candy whose name is an abbreviation of the German word for peppermint |
| 27% | PEZ | 3 | Candy whose name is an abbreviation of the German word for "peppermint" |
| 27% | FREEATLAST | 10 | Final words of MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech |