| 100% | SEUSS | 5 | Children's author with the line "Today is gone. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one." |
| 41% | APEA | 4 | "I Got ___" (silly children's song with the line "Why is everyone laughing at me?") |
| 39% | CHARLOTTESWEB | 13 | Children's classic with the line "It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer" |
| 36% | SEUSS | 5 | Author of the line "There is no one alive who is you-er than you" |
| 35% | SAKI | 4 | Author who famously ended a short story with the line "Romance at short notice was her specialty" |
| 35% | TOMORROW | 8 | __ is another day, quote from Gone with the Wind |
| 34% | POEM | 4 | Verse composition like "Monday's Child" with the line "Wednesday's child is full of woe," which inspired the name of the character |
| 34% | GAWKER | 6 | Former website with the slogan "Today's gossip is tomorrow's news" |
| 33% | BAA | 3 | Start of a children's rhyme with the line "Have you any wool?" |
| 33% | CHARLOTTESWEB | 13 | Children's classic by 50-Across with the line, "It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer" (2 wds.) |
| 32% | BRAIN | 5 | "Pinky and the ___," animated show with a theme song that goes "One is a genius, the other's other insane..." |
| 32% | AVI | 3 | One-named author of the children's book "Poppy" |
| 31% | NOEXIT | 6 | Play with the line "Hell is other people" |
| 31% | NOWOMANNOCRY | 12 | Bob Marley tune with the line "Everything's gonna be all right": 4 wds. |
| 31% | UPTOWNGIRL | 10 | 1983 hit with the line "She's been living in her white bread world" |
| 30% | INTHISECONOMY | 13 | "... with the way things are currently going?!" |
| 30% | SQUIDGAME | 9 | Netflix series with the tagline “45.6 billion won is child’s play” |
| 30% | TEMPEST | 7 | Source of the line "What's past is prologue," with "The" |
| 30% | WAR | 3 | 1970 #1 hit with the line "What is it good for?" |
| 30% | SEUSS | 5 | Children's author who wrote "There is no one alive who is you-er than you!" |
| 30% | EDITOR | 6 | One going over the line |
| 30% | TAKEN | 5 | 2008 movie with the line "I will find you, and I will kill you" |
| 30% | WATERLOO | 8 | ABBA song with the line "I was defeated, you won the war" |
| 30% | WATERLOO | 8 | ABBA hit with the line "I was defeated, you won the war" |
| 30% | GETUPSTANDUP | 12 | Bob Marley tune with the line "Life is your right": 4 wds. |
| 30% | RANSOM | 6 | 1996 Mel Gibson film with the tagline "Someone is going to pay" |
| 30% | GEMS | 4 | Uncut ___ (Adam Sandler movie with the line "This is how I win") |
| 30% | GLASSONION | 10 | Allusive Beatles song with the line “the Walrus was Paul” |
| 30% | APPLEGATE | 9 | With 21-Across, the actress - whose birthday it is today - who played Kelly, the daughter, on "Married... with Children" |
| 30% | CHRISTINA | 9 | With 36-Across, the actress - whose birthday it is today - who played Kelly, the daughter, on "Married... with Children" |