| 100% | LUCE | 4 | Henry ___, founder of Time, Life and Sports Illustrated |
| 50% | WOODS | 5 | Sports Illustrated's first two-time Sportsman of the Year, 1996 and 2000 |
| 44% | REZA | 4 | "Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth" author Aslan |
| 44% | HER | 3 | "On ___ Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker" |
| 43% | SECRETARIAT | 11 | 95-Across who made the covers of Time, Newsweek and Sports Illustrated in the same week |
| 42% | FRANKDEFORD | 11 | Former Sports Illustrated writer who was Sportswriter of the Year six times (2 wds.) |
| 42% | AINTTOOPROUD | 12 | Tony-nominated jukebox musical about the life and times of 34-Across: 3 wds. |
| 42% | BEN | 3 | Grizzly bear from Charles E. Sellier Jr.'s "The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams" |
| 41% | MIDDLEAGE | 9 | Time of life … and a hint to 17-, 28- and 45-Across |
| 41% | AVA | 3 | Actress Gardner of "The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean" |
| 41% | ANDERSON | 8 | Lindsay —, director of the films Britannia Hospital and This Sporting Life |
| 41% | EPS | 3 | The Time of Our Lives and She Is Coming, for Miley Cyrus |
| 39% | ASHE | 4 | Subject of four Sports Illustrated covers between 1966 and 1993 |
| 39% | WISECRACKER | 11 | William J Mann's 1998 book "___: The Life and Times of William Haines, Hollywood's First Openly Gay Star" |
| 39% | MAGAZINES | 9 | Publications like People and Sports Illustrated |
| 39% | GOLFBALL | 8 | Sports item that can be found at the starts of 17-, 21-, 32-, 42- and 54-Across |
| 38% | OUR | 3 | "Time of ___ Lives" (Pitbull and Ne-Yo song) |
| 38% | COETZEE | 7 | J M —, 1983 Booker Prize winner for Life and Times of Michael K; 2003 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 38% | OUR | 3 | "Time of ___ Lives" (song by Pitbull and Ne-Yo) |
| 38% | OUR | 3 | "Time of ___ Lives" (2014 Pitbull and Ne-Yo song) |
| 38% | MAG | 3 | Sports Illustrated or Time, for short |
| 38% | OUR | 3 | Pitbull and Ne-Yo's "Time of ___ Lives" |
| 38% | FREUD | 5 | Founder of psychoanalysis and talk therapy |
| 37% | ALI | 3 | Sports Illustrated's Sportsman of the Century |
| 37% | LEWIS | 5 | Sports Illustrated's "Olympian of the Century" |
| 37% | LUCE | 4 | Time founder Henry |
| 37% | EFFORTS | 7 | Expenditures of time and energy |
| 37% | WEAR | 4 | Effect of time and use |
| 37% | TEENS | 5 | Time of life |
| 37% | OLDAGE | 6 | Time of life |