| 100% | GROUNDBREAKING | 14 | Book-jacket blurb for The Quake Book-Finding Faults in L.A.? |
| 66% | BETTERTHANPULPFICTION | 21 | Book-jacket blurb for Not a Seed in the House-How the Navel Orange Changed L.A.? |
| 52% | ITGREWONME | 10 | Book-jacket blurb for L.A.-The Ever-Expanding City? |
| 51% | ITCOVERSEVERYTHING | 18 | Book-jacket blurb for All About Asphalt-The Complete L.A. Guide? |
| 51% | SENSATIONAL | 11 | Book-jacket blurb for Hearst's L.A. Examiner-The True Story? |
| 48% | WELLWORTHIT | 11 | Book-jacket blurb for Oil of L.A.? |
| 48% | BIO | 3 | Blurb on a book jacket, for short |
| 46% | RUNOUTANDGRABACOPY | 18 | Book-jacket blurb for The Riot Prevention Handbook? |
| 45% | HUMOR | 5 | Funny genre for "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" or "Good Omens"... or a book section you may find in the library |
| 43% | MOOCOW | 6 | Animal you might find only in a book for young children? |
| 42% | ATLAS | 5 | A book in which you find the map of the world |
| 42% | BIO | 3 | "About the author" section in a book, for short |
| 42% | ITLEFTALASTING | 14 | With 122 Across, book-jacket blurb for Written in Concrete-A Pictorial History of Grauman's Chinese Theatre? |
| 42% | BIO | 3 | Book jacket blurb, for short |
| 42% | CARON | 5 | Leslie —, Best Actress in a Leading Role Oscar nominee for The L-Shaped Room |
| 41% | BAKER | 5 | "I used to be a ___ until I found out I was in it for the dough!" |
| 41% | ROMANCE | 7 | "The Notebook" genre... or a book section you may find in the library |
| 40% | CLARENCE | 8 | Darrow referred to as the "Attorney for the Damned" in a 2011 book by John A. Farrell |
| 40% | FICTION | 7 | "The Great Gatsby" genre... or a book section you may find in the library |
| 40% | POETRY | 6 | Haikus, odes, e.g.... or a book section you may find in the library |
| 40% | TRAVEL | 6 | "Eat, Pray, Love" genre... or a book section you may find in the library |
| 40% | CHEMLAB | 7 | Place to find the solution for a test, in more ways than one, informally |
| 39% | WHERESWALDO | 11 | ''Find the boy in a ski cap'' book |
| 39% | SCI | 3 | ___-fi, "The Three-Body Problem" genre... or a book section you may find in the library |
| 39% | BRIEFHISTORYOF | 14 | "A ___Time," 1988 book on cosmology by Stephen Hawking which is written in a non-technical way for the masses: 3 wds. |
| 38% | FLIPPERANDERSON | 15 | Former L.A. Ram who holds the N.F.L. record for most receiving yards in a game (336) |
| 38% | DOUBLEDAY | 9 | Big name in American book publishing for 120+ years ... and a hint to the answers to the starred clues |
| 38% | MARS | 4 | Planet that was the origin for a two-billion-year-old rock found in the Sahara desert |
| 38% | PARKING | 7 | Finding a spot for the car |
| 38% | PARK | 4 | Find a spot for the car |