100% | DOE | 3 | Jane ___ (unknown, like the author of this puzzle) |
62% | INTERCHANGEABLE | 15 | Like the parts of this puzzle's toy, as depicted throughout the grid |
62% | FALLINGDOWN | 11 | Like the contents of this puzzle's circled squares, in a nursery rhyme |
59% | MEGROSOFF | 9 | Author of the 2022 YA novel, Friends Like These |
58% | ERNESTHEMINGWAY | 15 | Author of the concise yet evocative story told in this puzzle |
55% | JAMESMICHENER | 13 | Author of the novels whose titles are the starts of nine answers in this puzzle |
55% | JEFFERSON | 9 | Author of this puzzle's quote |
55% | SERPENTINE | 10 | Snaking, like the arrangement of circled letters in this puzzle |
55% | ANON | 4 | Like the author of "Beowulf," in brief |
53% | YOU | 3 | The solver of this puzzle |
53% | ROCKSET | 7 | Description of this puzzle's theme answers, sounding like "The Look" singers? |
52% | ODD | 3 | Like the number of this clue |
52% | PRIME | 5 | Like the number of this clue |
52% | EVEN | 4 | Like the number of this clue |
52% | ACROSS | 6 | Like the direction of this answer |
52% | PUN | 3 | The title of this puzzle, e.g. |
52% | TRIO | 4 | The constructors of this puzzle, e.g. |
51% | JULES | 5 | With 49-Across, author of the novel suggested by this puzzle's theme; the movie debuted 10/17/1956 |
51% | MISPELLED | 9 | Like the six longest answers in this puzzle |
51% | KCALB | 5 | The middle of this puzzle's grid, symbolically |
51% | NOTUPTOPAR | 10 | Like the duffer in this puzzle? |
51% | QUINTUPLE | 9 | Like each letter of the alphabet in this puzzle, at minimum |
50% | PARENTHETIC | 11 | Like the end of this clue (in terms of punctuation) |
50% | HOT | 3 | The opposite of the theme of this puzzle |
50% | RATEDNC17 | 9 | Like the film "Henry & June" (and this puzzle) |
50% | PERSONAL | 8 | Like the 52-Across featured in this puzzle |
49% | SPUNAROUND | 10 | Like the answers to this puzzle's starred clues |
49% | ACROSS | 6 | Like approximately half of this puzzle’s clues, directionally |
49% | EMBEDDED | 8 | Like aleph in the central black squares of this puzzle's grid |
48% | HALFBAKED | 9 | Like the answers to this puzzle's 12 asterisked clues? |