| 100% | BINDING | 7 | Glue and material fixing a cover to a book's pages |
| 45% | ANNOTATE | 8 | Add comments to a book's pages |
| 40% | TITLE | 5 | Key info on a book's spine and cover |
| 38% | BINDING | 7 | Covering in a book that binds the pages |
| 38% | BINDS | 5 | Fixes cover to book |
| 37% | PASTE | 5 | Glue to fix a step |
| 37% | ATLAST | 6 | Song covered by Celine, Beyoncé and Aretha, and a hint to this puzzle's theme |
| 36% | PATCHED | 7 | Having put material over a hole to fix it |
| 36% | DOWN | 4 | "I am reading a book on the history of glue. It's impossible to put ___!" |
| 35% | BARCODE | 7 | Black-and-white-striped printing on a book's cover |
| 35% | ARTWORK | 7 | Illustrations and other drawn material in a book |
| 35% | PAINTING | 8 | Illustrating a book page with brushes and oils |
| 35% | TIMEALONE | 9 | Chance to unwind and read a book, perhaps |
| 35% | MOO | 3 | “___, Baa, La La La!” (children’s book whose cover features a cow, a sheep, and three pigs) |
| 35% | RIFFLES | 7 | Turns over a book's pages |
| 34% | LOOSE | 5 | Ready to fall out, as pages from a book |
| 34% | CRY | 3 | React to a book's ending, perhaps |
| 34% | ENDPAPERS | 9 | Often marbled pages at front and back of a book |
| 34% | WRITTENINSTONE | 14 | Firmly fixed, and a hint to the answers with circles |
| 34% | OED | 3 | Book whose first vol. covered A to Ant |
| 34% | DOGEAR | 6 | Fold the corner of a book's page |
| 34% | RIBBON | 6 | Silky marker that keeps a book's page |
| 34% | THEDAVINCIODE | 13 | Book that's a paean to a painter? |
| 33% | FOLIO | 5 | Sheet of paper folded to make the pages of a book |
| 33% | BLURB | 5 | Quote from a reviewer on a book's cover |
| 33% | NAILDOWN | 8 | Fix to the ground using a hammer and pins |
| 33% | DOGEAR | 6 | Bend the corner of a book's page (Hyph.) |
| 33% | FINGERPAINTS | 12 | Materials for a preschool artist … or a hint to 20-, 32- and 40-Across |
| 33% | ROYALTY | 7 | Percentage paid to a book's author based on sales |
| 33% | BANDAGE | 7 | Strip of material used to cover a wound |