| 100% | CANON | 5 | Group of books that an educated person is supposed to be familiar with |
| 40% | BEER | 4 | Brewed drink that is believed to be an ideal combination with different varieties of cheese |
| 37% | STEEL | 5 | "___ Magnolias," 1989 film with an ensemble cast that is about a group of women in a small, Southern community |
| 36% | LINE | 4 | Group of people standing and waiting to be served |
| 36% | COOKERY | 7 | Genre of books that are filled with recipes |
| 36% | LIBRARIAN | 9 | Person urges you to be quiet in a place with books |
| 35% | FRIENDCRUSH | 11 | "I sooo want to be besties with that person" feeling |
| 35% | EXISTENCE | 9 | "The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very __ is an act of rebellion": Camus (attributed) |
| 34% | EXCLUSIVE | 9 | To only be available to a specific group of people |
| 34% | LOAN | 4 | To give, with an expectation of being returned with interest |
| 34% | PARTY | 5 | A group of people trying to win an election |
| 34% | RACIST | 6 | "How to Be an Anti-___" (best-selling book of 2020) |
| 33% | HAT | 3 | Item of clothing that a man is supposed to remove when indoors |
| 33% | TARGET | 6 | Person or place that is the aim of an attack |
| 33% | KORAN | 5 | Book that refers to "People of the Book" |
| 33% | STEALTH | 7 | With 88 Across, what this diagram is an aerial view of (eight, to be exact) |
| 32% | HATS | 4 | A person with lots of responsibilities is said to wear many of these |
| 32% | HOBBIT | 6 | "The ___," book that is a prequel to "The Lord of the Rings" series |
| 32% | ARKHAM | 6 | With 33-Across, institution for the criminally insane that is central to the plot of "Gotham" |
| 32% | BLYTHE | 6 | Fashion doll with an oversized head that was released to rival Barbie in 1972 |
| 32% | TROUPES | 7 | Word that would seem to be a portmanteau of "traveling groups," but isn't |
| 32% | XENO | 4 | Prefix with phobia that refers to dislike of foreign people |
| 32% | ACTS | 4 | Book that's the source of the line "It is more blessed to give than to receive" |
| 32% | MOHICANS | 8 | Group whose name means "the people of the waters that are never still" |
| 31% | MOO | 3 | Type of game that "Sindome" is which is an example of a precursor to the MMORPGs of today |
| 31% | ANT | 3 | Bug that the more than 1 million members of a certain Facebook group pretend to be |
| 31% | PLY | 3 | Tissue paper layer that was reduced to half by Dwight in an episode of "The Office" |
| 31% | MONKEY | 6 | Proboscis ___, reddish-brown primate with a long nose that is endemic to the island of Borneo |
| 31% | LEMUR | 5 | Primate with large eyes and a long tail that is endemic to the island of Madagascar |
| 31% | ONEDIRECTION | 12 | Group that Zayn Malik was a part of from 2010 to 2015: 2 wds. |