| 100% | CSLEWIS | 7 | Author with a fan site called "Into the Wardrobe" |
| 41% | VERNE | 5 | Author with a restaurant at the Eiffel Tower named for him |
| 41% | NATIVESON | 9 | Best-selling 1940 novel that was adapted into a film, with its author playing the protagonist, in 1951 |
| 41% | MARGARET | 8 | With 40-Across, author of the 1936 novel "Gone With the Wind," which was made into a Best Picture-winning movie |
| 41% | IMPEACH | 7 | Call into question the integrity of a practice |
| 39% | INJECTION | 9 | Insertion of medicine into the body with a syringe |
| 39% | REDDIT | 6 | Site with the slogan "Dive into anything" |
| 38% | IMDB | 4 | Site with a list of the top 250 films |
| 38% | ARMOIRE | 7 | What the French call a wardrobe, cabinet |
| 37% | BRUSSELS | 8 | City with a tourist attraction called the Atomium |
| 37% | BELLBIRD | 8 | Australasian songbird with a ringing call such as the New Zealand — or crested — |
| 37% | DAVEPELZER | 10 | Author of memoirs A Child Called It and The Lost Boy |
| 37% | HALEY | 5 | Author with a book subtitled "The Saga of an American Family" |
| 36% | TRIXIEBELDEN | 12 | Teen detective who solves mysteries with a club called the Bob-Whites (2 wds.) |
| 36% | GROSSMITH | 9 | George —, author with brother Weedon of 1892 comic novel The Diary of a Nobody |
| 36% | DOBRO | 5 | Acoustic guitar with a metal resonator built into the body |
| 36% | DRAFTED | 7 | Called into the service |
| 36% | CRIME | 5 | With 65-Across, investigation site, and a punny description of the HEIST answers |
| 36% | VERNE | 5 | Author of the quote "I am not what you call a civilized man!" |
| 35% | CNET | 4 | Tech site with the tagline “Your guide to a better future” |
| 35% | HELLO | 5 | Adele song with the lyric "I must have called a thousand times" |
| 35% | HELLO | 5 | Adele song with the lyric "I must've called a thousand times" |
| 35% | UCLA | 4 | School with the fan site gojoebruin.com: Abbr. |
| 35% | HOCKEY | 6 | Sport played with a puck where teams try to put it into the other team's goal |
| 35% | WACO | 4 | Only major U.S. city with a radio station whose call letters spell the city's name |
| 35% | POE | 3 | "A Descent Into the Maelström" author |
| 34% | WOOWOOWOO | 9 | With 80 Across, what it's like after a meeting of the Curly Fan Club? |
| 34% | GEISHA | 6 | Performer with a fan |
| 34% | HEINLEIN | 8 | Robert A —, author of the novels Starship Troopers and The Door into Summer |
| 34% | ALAMO | 5 | Rental car company with the same name as a San Antonio historic site |