| 100% | THINMAN | 7 | Dashiell Hammett's last novel, with "The" |
| 54% | THINMAN | 7 | Dashiell Hammett whodunnit, with “The” |
| 52% | LOLITA | 6 | 1955 novel with the line "It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight" |
| 51% | FALCON | 6 | "The Maltese ___," 1930 Dashiell Hammett novel featuring the fictional detective Sam Spade |
| 50% | FATMAN | 6 | Old Dashiell Hammett radio series, with "The" |
| 49% | DUNE | 4 | Novel with the desert planet Arrakis |
| 49% | THIN | 4 | Dashiell Hammett's "The ___ Man" |
| 49% | OMOO | 4 | Novel with the chapter "Farming in Polynesia" |
| 48% | GLASSKEY | 8 | The —, 1931 novel by Dashiell Hammett |
| 48% | JANEEYRE | 8 | Novel with the line "Reader, I married him" |
| 48% | BELOVED | 7 | 1987 novel with the opening lines “124 was spiteful. Full of a baby’s venom” |
| 47% | UNCAS | 5 | The last of the Mohicans, in Cooper's novel |
| 47% | OPIONEERS | 9 | Classic novel with the heroine Alexandra Bergson |
| 46% | MOBYDICK | 8 | Melville novel with the line "Call me Ishmael" |
| 46% | OMOO | 4 | 1847 novel with the chapter "Life at Loohooloo" |
| 46% | THINMAN | 7 | The —, 1934 Dashiell Hammett novel whose central characters are Nick and Nora Charles |
| 46% | TINT | 4 | Color, like you might want to do with the title's last word |
| 46% | CLUEIN | 6 | Provide with the latest |
| 45% | ATALEOFTWOCITIES | 16 | Dickens novel with the 56-Across as its backdrop |
| 45% | LEN | 3 | Late "Dancing With the Stars" judge Goodman |
| 45% | YAAGYASI | 8 | Writer with the novel Homegoing |
| 45% | UPDATE | 6 | Provide with the latest info |
| 45% | HIP | 3 | Up with the latest fashions |
| 45% | NEVER | 5 | With 6-Across, "That's the last time I'll do that!" |
| 45% | ASTA | 4 | Dog in Dashiell Hammett's "The Thin Man" |
| 45% | UGLIES | 6 | 2005 Scott Westerfeld sci-fi novel with the sequel "Pretties" |
| 44% | NEE | 3 | Originally with the last name of |
| 44% | UPDATE | 6 | Fill in with the latest information |
| 44% | SCORPIO | 7 | Zodiac starts with the letter S |