| 100% | DANCER | 6 | Little __ of Fourteen Years, by Edgar Degas |
| 38% | DANCER | 6 | Little __, Degas sculpture of ballet student |
| 37% | TARTS | 5 | Little pies baked by the Queen of Hearts |
| 37% | AGE | 3 | Number of years spent by anyone |
| 36% | LIGHTGREENE | 11 | Less serious works by the author of "Brighton Rock"? |
| 36% | DRAWINTO | 8 | Make a member of little by little |
| 36% | TENCENT | 7 | Like some stores of years gone by |
| 35% | GABRIEL | 7 | One Hundred Years of Solitude by __ García Márquez |
| 35% | REHAB | 5 | 2007 Record of the Year by Amy Winehouse |
| 35% | PHDS | 4 | Degrees held by less than 2% of Americans |
| 35% | THESTRIP | 8 | Desert stretch walked by tens of millions each year |
| 34% | PEARLS | 6 | "___ of Wisdom: Little Pieces of Advice," 2020 memoir by Barbara Bush |
| 34% | TUTU | 4 | Any of many painted by Degas |
| 33% | NEA | 3 | Mary Anne Carter was appointed last year by the President as chairperson of this agency |
| 33% | ISRAELPOTTER | 12 | 1855 novel by Herman Melville subtitled His Fifty Years of Exile |
| 33% | REHAB | 5 | 2007's Record of the Year by Amy Winehouse |
| 33% | REHAB | 5 | 2008 Grammy Song of the Year by Amy Winehouse |
| 33% | BLACK | 5 | "The ___ Cat," gothic story by Edgar Allan Poe which follows the story of an unreliable narrator |
| 33% | ANNABEL | 7 | "___ Lee," last complete poem by Edgar Allan Poe which follows the death of a beautiful woman |
| 32% | VIVALAVIDA | 10 | 2009 Grammy Song of the Year by Coldplay: 3 wds. |
| 32% | ONE | 3 | "___ Hundred Years of Solitude," authored by Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
| 32% | RAVEN | 5 | "The ___," gothic narrative poem by Edgar Allan Poe which follows the story of the titular talking bird |
| 32% | BESTMUSICAL | 11 | Tony Award won by the starred answers in the years of their clues |
| 32% | CAVEANIMAL | 10 | U.S.A. ___ of the Year (award given to the little brown bat by the National Speleological Society, in 2022) |
| 32% | GRAMMY | 6 | Song of the Year award won by Lorde for 36-Across |
| 32% | NEEDYOUNOW | 10 | 2011 Grammy Song of the Year by Lady Antebellum: 3 wds. |
| 31% | TELLTALE | 8 | "The ___ Heart," gothic story by Edgar Allan Poe which follows the story of the narrator's hamartia: Hyph. |
| 31% | ASA | 3 | Chemical (abbr.) still registered as a trademark of Bayer for at least 120 years |
| 31% | SMA | 3 | Little of Scotland |
| 31% | POCO | 4 | Little of Verdi? |