| 100% | GARTH | 5 | Greenwell whose novel “Small Rain” was called “an exquisite addition to the literature of illness” in The Yale Review (September, 2024) |
| 30% | CATS | 4 | 2019 flop whose Variety review began "Nine may not be enough lives for some of the stars to live down their involvement in this …" |
| 29% | EDITHWHARTON | 12 | 13-Across and 25-Across writer who was the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize in Literature, for her 1920 novel "The Age of Innocence" (2 wds.) |
| 29% | UKE | 3 | The art of being able to respond to an oncoming attack in Judo |
| 29% | ADEN | 4 | Port whose harbor is in the crater of an extinct volcano |
| 29% | GMC | 3 | Automaker whose Hummer E.V. was called a “ghastly behemoth” in a review by The Verge |
| 28% | AKBAR | 5 | Kaveh whose novel “Martyr!” follows an Iranian American writer grappling with the meaning of death (January, 2024) |
| 28% | SIDEWALKCHALK | 13 | 2020 addition to the Toy Hall of Fame that may be sold in a bucket (2 wds.) |
| 28% | NAT | 3 | Turner whose slave revolt was the subject of an 1861 article in The Atlantic |
| 28% | JAMESMICHENER | 13 | Author of the novels whose titles are the starts of nine answers in this puzzle |
| 28% | NSO | 3 | Public res. inst., HQed in Boulder, whose mission is to advance understanding of the sun |
| 28% | MARSODYSSEY | 11 | NASA's unmanned mission to the Red Planet launched in 2001, named in honor of an Arthur C. Clarke novel |
| 27% | QUAIDORSAY | 10 | Street in Paris whose name is used figuratively to refer to the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs |
| 27% | PRESIDENTSDAY | 13 | February occasion, some of whose honorees can be found in the answers to the five starred clues |
| 27% | TEAK | 4 | Plant whose name becomes that of a meat product when an s is added to the beginning |
| 27% | TIME | 4 | "Love in the ___ of Cholera," Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 1985 novel that was translated to English in 1988 |
| 27% | ERA | 3 | 2021 addition to the Russian segment of the ISS that will include two limbs, two grippers, two wrists and an elbow joint (abbr.) |
| 27% | ATOM | 4 | Length of time that was compared to the "twinkling of an eye" in the Greek text of Paul's 1 Corinthians 15:52 |
| 27% | CUSK | 4 | Rachel whose novel “Parade” features a procession of visual artists, all referred to by the initial “G“ (June, 2024) |
| 27% | ACDC | 4 | Australian rock band with the song "Highway to Hell" whose name is an abbreviation referring to types of electricity |
| 27% | TEG | 3 | Miles ___, the former Supreme Bashar of the Bene Gesserit in the "Dune" novels, reputed to be 296 years old |
| 26% | ANDREGIDE | 9 | French author of 1909 novel Strait is the Gate; 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature winner |
| 26% | RONWEASLEY | 10 | The character Rupert Grint - whose birthday it is today - shot to fame playing in the "Harry Potter" series of films: 2 wds. |
| 26% | SONGOFSOLOMON | 13 | 1977 novel by Toni Morrison which is about the life of an African-American man living in Michigan: 3 wds. |
| 26% | RUMI | 4 | Poet whose work was set to music by Philip Glass and Robert Wilson in the chamber opera “Monsters of Grace” |
| 26% | REMBRANDT | 9 | ___ van Rijn, Dutch painter whose painting "The Adoration of the Magi" was confirmed to be original in 2021 |
| 26% | GIDE | 4 | Andre —, French author of 1909 novel Strait is the Gate; 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature winner |
| 26% | NED | 3 | Only Springfield resident whose house is destroyed by a hurricane, in an episode of The Simpsons |
| 26% | RETAIL | 6 | The sale of goods to the public in small amounts |