100% | WHITENOISE | 10 | Don DeLillo novel whose original dust jacket touted it as “a brilliant story about death and the fear of death . . . a comedy, of course” |
28% | RICHTER | 7 | Artist Gerhard whose portraits of the Baader-Meinhof group inspired a Don DeLillo story |
25% | ONLY | 4 | & 19D The —, 1978 Nell Dunn novel subtitled A Simple Story of Heaven and Hell |
24% | CALEBCARR | 9 | Writer whose novels "The Alienist" and "The Angel of Darkness" were adapted as a TV series starring 16-Across and 32-Across (2 wds.) |
24% | WHITE | 5 | Edmund —, author of novels A Boy's Own Story and The Farewell Symphony |
24% | TARBABY | 7 | 1981 novel about the interplay of privilege and poverty in a Caribbean romance |
24% | SUKENICK | 8 | Ronald, wrote Death of the Novel and Other Stories |
24% | BURN | 4 | Gordon —, author of novels Alma Cogan and Born Yesterday: The News as a Novel |
24% | OPERA | 5 | Peter Benchley described it as "where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings" |
24% | NOTHINGDOING | 12 | "Forget about it!" ... or a clue to the starts of 20-, 27- and 47-Across |
23% | EYRE | 4 | "Jane ___," novel by Charlotte Bronte which tells the story of the eponymous character as a governess |
23% | CHUCKPALAHNIUK | 14 | Writer whose novel "Fight Club" was adapted as a 1999 film of the same name (2 wds.) |
23% | THECIDERHOUSELURES | 18 | Story of a youth who says to hell with it and goes to the pub? |
23% | JAMES | 5 | P D —, author of the novels Original Sin and A Mind to Murder |
23% | CROODS | 6 | "The ___," 2013 animated comedy movie about a family of cavemen, starring the voices of Nicolas Cage and Ryan Reynolds |
23% | ALANHANSEN | 10 | Former Liverpool and Scotland footballer whose credits as a pundit include BBC TV's Match of the Day |
23% | GOONIES | 7 | "The ___," 1985 adventure comedy film starring Sean Astin, Josh Brolin, and an ensemble cast as a group of kids living in the "Goon Docks" |
23% | THEAWFULTRUTH | 13 | 1937 comedy starring Cary Grant and Irene Dunne as a couple in the midst of divorce proceedings: 3 wds. |
23% | MIND | 4 | “The Life of the ___,” Christine Smallwood novel about lost opportunities to become a mother and professor (March, 2021) |
22% | LOLITA | 6 | About whom Nabokov said "She was like the composition of a beautiful puzzle - its composition and its solution at the same time" |
22% | ROCK | 4 | "30 ___," satirical sitcom about the behind the scenes of a live sketch comedy show created by and starring Tina Fey |
22% | DIOR | 4 | Designer whose name, as noted by Jean Cocteau, sounds like a portmanteau of the French words for “God” and “gold” |
22% | REALISM | 7 | The practice of accepting a situation as it is |
22% | GRAHAM | 6 | With 35-Across, writer whose novel "The End of the Affair" was adapted as a 1999 film of the same name |
22% | DORIAN | 6 | "The Picture of ___ Gray," gothic novel by Oscar Wilde which tells the story of a man and his unusual portrait |
22% | MAO | 3 | Titular chairman of a 1991 Don DeLillo novel |
22% | JONATHANFRANZEN | 15 | Author of a 2001 novel about the Lambert family and a 2010 novel about the Berglund family |
22% | GARDNER | 7 | Erle Stanley —, author of 1937 novel The D. A. Calls It Murder and others featuring Doug Selby |
22% | SEVERANCE | 9 | Apple TV+ drama about a company that separates the work and non-work memories of its employees |
22% | WILLIENELSON | 12 | Country music legend whose 73rd solo studio album is "I Don't Know a Thing About Love: The Songs of 17-Across" (2 wds.) |