| 100% | MARAT | 5 | Jean-Paul —, politician stabbed to death in his bath by Charlotte Corday in 1793 |
| 52% | MARAT | 5 | Jean-Paul —, journalist and politician assassinated by Charlotte Corday in 1793 |
| 52% | MARAT | 5 | Jean-Paul -, journalist and politician assassinated by Charlotte Corday in 1793 |
| 32% | ASSASSIN | 8 | Charlotte Corday, to Jean-Paul Marat |
| 27% | GAULTIER | 8 | Fashion's Jean Paul __ held his final show in 2020 |
| 26% | ICARUS | 6 | Escapee who fell to his death in the sea |
| 26% | ATAHUALPA | 9 | Inca emperor put to death by the Spaniards in 1533 |
| 24% | WELCOME | 7 | "___ to the Jungle," 1987 song whose riff by Slash was composed in his mom's basement |
| 24% | OOLA | 4 | Twi'lek dancer sentenced to death by Jabba the Hutt in Return of the Jedi |
| 24% | HIRT | 4 | Trumpeter referred to by Leut. "swingin" Steven Hauk in his "Good Morning, Vietnam" comedy routine |
| 24% | BARD | 4 | Term for a person hired by a nobleman in medieval times to compose verses in his praise |
| 23% | CHARLOTTE | 9 | & 18D Assassin of Jean-Paul Marat executed in 1793 |
| 23% | MARAT | 5 | Jean-Paul ___ (French revolutionary whose death was painted by Jacques-Louis David) |
| 22% | MIDAS | 5 | Man who changed 10 letters in this puzzle by touching them (the original letters describe his daughter, to his dismay) |
| 22% | MASS | 4 | M, to Einstein in his famous equation |
| 22% | AMIES | 5 | Hardy —, dressmaker by appointment to Queen Elizabeth II who founded his own fashion house in 1946 |
| 22% | ARP | 3 | Surrealist Jean who dodged the draft by writing his birthdate in every space on his induction form |
| 22% | ADOLPHCOORS | 11 | American Beer maker who in 1873 founded a brewery in Golden, Co & later leaped to his death |
| 22% | LYKEWAKE | 8 | & 18D Traditional English song set to music by Benjamin Britten in his 1943 Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings (4-4,5) |
| 22% | VALKYRIE | 8 | Woman in Norse mythology linked to deaths in battle |
| 22% | PELOPS | 6 | Son of Tantalus in Greek mythology killed by his father and served to the gods as a meal |
| 21% | CLICHES | 7 | In language, overused expressions, done to death |
| 21% | JELLY | 5 | ___ shoes, fashion trend popularized in the '80s by Jean-Paul Gaultier's fashion shows |
| 21% | SEVENDAYSINMAYO | 15 | Thriller about a US government takeover led by a deviant who spends most of his time sitting in a bath full of dressing? |
| 21% | THRENODY | 8 | Poem or song of mourning or lamentation such as that written by Ralph Waldo Emerson on the death of his son in 1842 |
| 21% | ZOO | 3 | "At the ___" single by Simon & Garfunkel written by Paul Simon as one of his tributes to New York City |
| 21% | SARGASSO | 8 | "Wide ___ Sea," 1966 novel by Jean Rhys that was written as a prequel to Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre" |
| 21% | RECOIL | 6 | To react by cringing; to flinch in fear |
| 21% | LIFECYCLE | 9 | Stages in from birth to death |