| 100% | NAEL | 4 | Author of a poem that runs "The tiger / He destroyed his cage / Yes / YES / The tiger is out" |
| 37% | TIGERWOODS | 10 | Considered one of the best in golf, he was central figure in a controversy that involved infidelity and ended in his divorce: 2 wds. |
| 34% | UPROOTED | 8 | Like a tree that has been lifted out of the ground |
| 34% | LONGFELLOW | 10 | Author of an 1841 poem that contains the line spelled out by the circled squares |
| 33% | BYRON | 5 | The phrase "Truth is stranger than fiction" originated from Canto XIV of a poem of "immoral content" by this author |
| 33% | ALITTLEMADNESS | 14 | Start of a poem by Emily Dickinson that continues "But God be with the Clown, / Who ponders this tremendous scene" |
| 33% | DENNISLEHANE | 12 | Author of the 2001 novel "Mystic River" that was made into a 2003 Sean Penn film: 2 wds. |
| 32% | ICEBOX | 6 | "I have eaten the plums that were in the ___" (start of a William Carlos Williams poem) |
| 32% | TEE | 3 | Item that might be knocked out of the ground with a golf shot |
| 32% | WANDER | 6 | "...Not all those who ___ are lost...," quote from "The Lord of the Rings" that is part of a poem written by Bilbo Baggins |
| 31% | STEPHENCHBOSKY | 14 | Author who wrote the film adaptation of his own "The Perks of Being a Wallflower": 2 wds. |
| 31% | LUCY | 4 | "___ in the Sky with Diamonds," 1967 song by The Beatles which was inspired by a drawing that Lennon's son made of his classmate |
| 31% | ROWLING | 7 | Best-selling author who was a runner-up for Time's 2007 Person of the Year |
| 31% | THE | 3 | "All in ___ Family," CBS sitcom about the life of a working-class father and his family that ran from 1971 - 1979 |
| 31% | BACKORDERED | 11 | Like goods that are temporarily out of stock ... or a hint, alphabetically, to the answers to the starred clues |
| 31% | ARNOLDPALMER | 12 | He was nicknamed "The King" of golf and has won the Masters Tournament four times, a record he shares with Tiger Woods: 2 wds. |
| 31% | OLIVERREED | 10 | Actor whose first name is the title of a Best Picture he co-starred in, and whose last name is that film's director |
| 30% | SUNROOF | 7 | The top of a car that can be opened in summer |
| 30% | SCIATIC | 7 | ___ nerve (nerve that runs the length of a leg) |
| 30% | TEN | 3 | Number of Emily Dickinson poems, out of the 1,700+ she wrote, that were published during her lifetime |
| 30% | FIN | 3 | Part of a shark that sticks out of the water |
| 30% | FIN | 3 | Part of a shark that protrudes out of the water |
| 30% | FIN | 3 | Part of a dolphin that sticks out of the water |
| 30% | FIN | 3 | Part of a shark that sticks out above the water |
| 30% | BAA | 3 | Word repeated before "black sheep," in a nursery rhyme that may be one of the first poems you learned |
| 30% | MAO | 3 | He was the subject of a Warhol painting |
| 30% | WRATH | 5 | "The Grapes of ___," novel by John Steinbeck, set in the Great Depression, that was a major reason for him winning the Nobel Prize |
| 30% | RIB | 3 | Bone that's part of a cage and protects the chest |
| 30% | FIN | 3 | Part of a shark that could be seen above the water |
| 30% | JERSEY | 6 | Sequinned shirt that is a part of the flashy Dodgers uniform Elton John wore for his concert at Dodger stadium |