| 100% | TORO | 4 | Bit of Spanish in Hemingway's first novel |
| 57% | BULL | 4 | Half of several hyphenated words in Hemingway's first novel |
| 47% | THE | 3 | First word in all of 9-Down’s novels |
| 46% | CLAYTILE | 8 | Bit of roofing in Spanish-style architecture |
| 43% | ENERO | 5 | First month of the year, in Spanish |
| 43% | STRATEGIC | 9 | First S in OSS, precursor of CIA |
| 43% | TOLLS | 5 | "For Whom the Bell ___," novel by Ernest Hemingway, set in the Spanish Civil War and is regarded as one of his best works |
| 43% | ASLAN | 5 | Hero of Narnia in C. S. Lewis novels |
| 43% | OLE | 3 | Spanish interjection that's the first word in the lyrics of the song "Hot Hot Hot" |
| 42% | WARDROBE | 8 | "The Lion, the Witch and the ___," first novel in the fantasy series "The Chronicles of Narnia" by C.S. Lewis |
| 41% | MDXI | 4 | Year of the first Spanish settlement in Cuba |
| 41% | TWILIGHT | 8 | First book in a series of vampire novels by Stephenie Meyer |
| 41% | OPIONEERS | 9 | First novel in Cather's "prairie trilogy" |
| 40% | DORASPENLOW | 11 | First wife of David Copperfield in a 1850 novel by Charles Dickens |
| 40% | THEPURSUED | 10 | 1935 novel by C S Forester first published in 2011 |
| 40% | ERAGON | 6 | First novel in Christopher Paolini's Inheritance Cycle |
| 40% | LBO | 3 | Bit of news in the W.S.J. |
| 40% | LEAF | 4 | Bit of greenery in 3-Down's logo |
| 40% | OPIONEERS | 9 | First novel in Cather's "Great Plains" trilogy |
| 40% | XRAYCAMERA | 10 | Bit of equipment in a dentist's office |
| 40% | ROLLINGSTONE | 12 | First publisher of Hunter S. Thompson's "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" |
| 39% | OPIONEERS | 9 | First novel in Willa Cather's Great Plains trilogy |
| 39% | GAMMARAY | 8 | Bit of radiation in the Hulk’s origin story |
| 39% | THUS | 4 | First word in the translated title of Nietzsche's 1885 novel "Also sprach Zarathustra" |
| 39% | THEBLUESTEYE | 12 | 18-Across's first novel, published in 1970: 3 wds. |
| 38% | DARKOFTHEMOON | 13 | First book in a series of novels by John Sandford featuring 46-Across (4 wds.) |
| 38% | THELAST | 7 | & 17D 1956 novel in The Chronicles of Narnia series by C S Lewis |
| 38% | NARNIA | 6 | Setting of seven fantasy novels by C S Lewis published in the 1950s |