| 100% | RENEW | 5 | Extend, as the loan of a library book |
| 84% | RENEW | 5 | Extend, as the loan on a library book |
| 67% | RENEW | 5 | Extend the due date of, as a library book |
| 53% | RENEW | 5 | Extend, as a library loan |
| 53% | RENEWER | 7 | One extending a library book loan |
| 51% | DUE | 3 | ___ date (date for the return of a library book, say) |
| 51% | REBIND | 6 | Fix the spine of, as a book |
| 50% | DEWEY | 5 | Melvil —, US inventor of a system for the classification of library books |
| 49% | LEAFING | 7 | Idly turning (through), as the pages of a book |
| 49% | RENEWING | 8 | Extending loan period of library books |
| 48% | LENTOUT | 7 | Offered free use of, as a library book |
| 46% | PAPERBACK | 9 | The opposite of a hardcover book |
| 46% | WIMPY | 5 | Meek, as in the title of a "Diary" series of kids' books |
| 45% | PLOTLINE | 8 | The story of a book |
| 45% | GAD | 3 | Ancient pan-Semitic god of fortune also mentioned as a deity in the Biblical Book of Isaiah |
| 44% | NARRATOR | 8 | The storyteller of a book or film |
| 44% | NOBODY | 6 | The Diary of a __, humorous book by the Grossmiths |
| 44% | STORYLINE | 9 | The plot of a book or a film |
| 44% | INDEX | 5 | Listing in the back of a nonfiction book |
| 44% | NOUN | 4 | The subject of a sentence, as a rule |
| 43% | RENEW | 5 | Extend a library loan |
| 43% | UNHOOK | 6 | Release, as the end of a chain |
| 43% | LATETO | 6 | Missing, as the start of a party |
| 43% | SPOIL | 5 | Ruin, as the end of a movie |
| 43% | HEMMING | 7 | Fixing, as the bottom of a skirt |
| 43% | TUNE | 4 | Adjust, as the strings of a guitar |
| 43% | EROSE | 5 | Uneven, as the border of a leaf |
| 43% | CLOCK | 5 | Measure, as the speed of a fastball |
| 43% | REHEEL | 6 | Fix, as the back of a shoe |
| 43% | HEM | 3 | Sew, as the bottom of a skirt |