| 100% | HITMEN | 6 | Guys whose work is in the offing? |
| 61% | MARILYNNANCE | 12 | Photographer also known as Soulsista whose work is in the Smithsonian's permanent collection (2 wds.) |
| 59% | THEGOGOS | 8 | Band whose work is featured in the musical "Head Over Heels" |
| 56% | LOOMS | 5 | Is in the offing |
| 56% | IMPEND | 6 | Be in the offing |
| 54% | NICHELLENICHOLS | 15 | Actress whose work with NASA is the focus of the documentary “Woman in Motion” |
| 53% | BREWS | 5 | Is in the works |
| 53% | BREW | 4 | Be in the works |
| 53% | RUMI | 4 | Poet whose work was set to music by Philip Glass and Robert Wilson in the chamber opera “Monsters of Grace” |
| 49% | TINSMITH | 8 | Artisan whose work is featured in this puzzle? |
| 49% | VICTOR | 6 | __ Hugo, French novelist whose work is set in Paris |
| 49% | HISTORIAN | 9 | Scholar whose work is a thing of the past? |
| 49% | SPENGLER | 8 | Oswald —, German philosopher whose two-volume work The Decline of the West was published in 1918 and 1923 |
| 49% | ROOFER | 6 | One whose work is on the house? |
| 49% | WRITER | 6 | One whose work is on the books? |
| 49% | SNOB | 4 | One whose nose is in the air |
| 48% | EUBIE | 5 | Jazzman Blake whose work was showcased in a Broadway musical |
| 47% | SEUSS | 5 | Popular author most of whose work is written in anapestic tetrameter |
| 47% | RYU | 3 | Main character in Capcom's Street Fighter series whose "special move" was the subject of a scientific work last year |
| 47% | BEETHOVEN | 9 | Composer whose works are hidden in 30-, 39- and 48-Across |
| 47% | ABBA | 4 | Band whose songs are in the "Mamma Mia!" movies |
| 47% | CSLEWIS | 7 | *Deceased writer whose work was the basis for a hit 2005 film |
| 47% | OWL | 3 | Bird whose eye is in the Wise potato chips logo |
| 46% | BACH | 4 | Composer whose work is featured in Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance” music video |
| 46% | IKEA | 4 | Store whose logo is in the colors of the Swedish flag |
| 46% | ADEN | 4 | Port whose harbor is in the crater of an extinct volcano |
| 46% | FBI | 3 | Agency whose headquarters is in the J. Edgar Hoover Building: Abbr. |
| 46% | WALES | 5 | Principality in the United Kingdom whose capital is Cardiff |
| 46% | SAUDI | 5 | Kingdom in the Middle East whose capital is Riyadh |
| 46% | JULES | 5 | With 141-Down, author whose work is the basis of this puzzle's theme |