| 100% | PARTV | 5 | Final section of T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" |
| 74% | STEARNS | 7 | Middle name of T S Eliot, author of 1922 poem The Waste Land |
| 71% | APRIL | 5 | "___ is the cruellest month" (opening of T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land") |
| 63% | THAMES | 6 | "Sweet" locale in T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" |
| 62% | ELEGANT | 7 | Word rhymed with "intelligent" in T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" |
| 61% | THAMES | 6 | River that "sweats oil and tar" in T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" |
| 56% | STEARNS | 7 | The S. of T.S. Eliot |
| 54% | WASTELAND | 9 | The —, modernist poem in five sections by T S Eliot first published in 1922 |
| 51% | STEARNS | 7 | The "S" of T.S. Eliot |
| 50% | MAGI | 4 | T.S. Eliot's 'The Journey of the ___' |
| 46% | ZED | 3 | Final section of the 40-Across |
| 46% | ILEUM | 5 | Final section of the small intestine |
| 46% | NAMING | 6 | T.S. Eliot's "The __ of Cats" |
| 45% | ELIOT | 5 | Poet T.S. who wrote "The Waste Land" |
| 45% | CAT | 3 | Any of T. S. Eliot's "practical" creatures |
| 45% | MAGI | 4 | "Journey of the ___," 43 line Christmas poem by T.S. Eliot |
| 44% | MURDER | 6 | T. S. Eliot’s “___ in the Cathedral” |
| 44% | ELIOT | 5 | "The Waste Land" poet T.S. ___ |
| 44% | ELIOT | 5 | "The Waste Land" poet T.S. |
| 44% | ELIOT | 5 | "The Waste Land" poet T.S. ___ who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948 |
| 43% | STEARNS | 7 | The S in poet T. S. Eliot's name |
| 43% | ELIOT | 5 | T S —, winner of the 1948 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 43% | ELIOT | 5 | T S ---, winner of the 1948 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 43% | TSE | 3 | "The Waste Land" poet's monogram (anagram of "set") |
| 42% | STEARNS | 7 | Middle name of the author of "The Waste Land" |
| 42% | EVIL | 4 | "Most of the ___ in this world is done by people with good intentions": T.S. Eliot |
| 41% | HANDFUL | 7 | "I will show you fear in a __ of dust": T S Eliot |
| 41% | EATA | 4 | "Do I dare to ___ peach?" (words of T. S. Eliot): 2 wds. |
| 41% | LAND | 4 | "The Waste ___," poem by T.S. Eliot |
| 41% | CRUELLEST | 9 | According to T. S. Eliot, April is the __ month |