| 100% | DIARY | 5 | Book of secrets with a lock? |
| 59% | DIARY | 5 | Book with a lock |
| 58% | DIARY | 5 | Book with a lock, maybe |
| 55% | SEDER | 5 | Feast with a Book of Exodus story |
| 54% | PSALMS | 6 | Book of the Bible that starts with a silent letter |
| 54% | ATLAS | 5 | Book that comes with a set of keys |
| 54% | ALBUM | 5 | Book with a collection of photos |
| 53% | FIRE | 4 | What you can start with a book of matches |
| 52% | HALEY | 5 | Author with a book subtitled "The Saga of an American Family" |
| 51% | ALBUM | 5 | A book with a collection of photographs |
| 51% | READSTO | 7 | Shares part of a book with, say |
| 50% | BLACKMAIL | 9 | Demand for money with threat of revealing a secret |
| 50% | LIBRARY | 7 | A place with a collection of books and records |
| 50% | REDHEAD | 7 | A person with flaming locks of hair |
| 49% | DIARY | 5 | Book of secrets, maybe |
| 49% | NONAME | 6 | Rapper and activist with a book club dedicated to authors of color and abolitionist texts |
| 49% | NBAJAM | 6 | Game with a secret additional roster of players that includes Bill Clinton and Al Gore |
| 49% | DREW | 4 | Nancy ___, iconic teen detective with a series of books published under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene |
| 48% | ESTHER | 6 | One of a pair of Old Testament books with female names |
| 48% | THOR | 4 | Superhero with a hammer who appeared in the first issue of the comic book "The Avengers" |
| 48% | AYN | 3 | The Book of ___ (2023 novel whose protagonist becomes fascinated with a certain writer's "individualist egoism") |
| 48% | JEKYLL | 6 | One of two title characters in a book with one title character |
| 48% | NARRATE | 7 | To give a spoken or written account of something, as with books |
| 47% | GARRY | 5 | With 36-Across, first host of "I've Got a Secret," which debuted in 1952 |
| 47% | HASPED | 6 | Closed with a lock |
| 47% | DIARY | 5 | Journal with a lock |
| 47% | DIARY | 5 | Log with a lock |
| 47% | STANLEE | 7 | Comic book writer with a National Medal of Arts |
| 47% | MEATBALLS | 9 | Children's book: Cloudy With a Chance of these |
| 46% | STAIRCASE | 9 | This puzzle has a secret one, starting with the third letter of 4-Down |