| 100% | DEWEY | 5 | Melvil —, US inventor of a system for the classification of library books |
| 49% | DEWEY | 5 | Inventor of a library classification system |
| 46% | BRAILLE | 7 | Louis —, 19th-century French inventor of a system of raised writing for the blind |
| 46% | DEWEY | 5 | Melvil _, US librarian who founded a system of decimal classification |
| 46% | DUE | 3 | ___ date (date for the return of a library book, say) |
| 46% | MOON | 4 | William —, 19th-century inventor of a writing system for the blind |
| 41% | OTIS | 4 | Inventor of a braking system for cars |
| 40% | DOLBY | 5 | Ray —, US inventor of a noise reduction system who died in 2013 |
| 39% | BRAILLE | 7 | Louis —, 19th-century French inventor of a system of raised writing for blind people |
| 38% | UNTO | 4 | "For ___ us a child is born" (line from the Book of Isaiah) |
| 38% | BRITS | 5 | Inventors of linoleum and the A.T.M., for example |
| 38% | RENEW | 5 | Extend, as the loan of a library book |
| 37% | RENEW | 5 | Extend the due date of, as a library book |
| 36% | MORMON | 6 | The Book of __, musical based on a US religion |
| 36% | JASONMOTT | 9 | Writer whose novel "Hell of a Book" won the 2021 National Book Award for Fiction (2 wds.) |
| 36% | ROBREINER | 9 | Director of 33-Across who will write a foreword for the book by 15-Across: 2 wds. |
| 36% | RACHELMADDOW | 12 | MSNBC host who won a 2021 Grammy for the audiobook of her nonfiction book "Blowout": 2 wds. |
| 36% | SHADOWS | 7 | "___ of Forgotten Ancestors: A Search for Who We Are," 1993 book co-authored by Carl Sagan |
| 36% | EXISTENTIALDRE | 14 | Good title for a reflective book on the life of a rap Dr.? |
| 35% | TRASHCAN | 8 | A container for the disposal of garbage |
| 35% | DOL | 3 | A measurement for the intensity of pain |
| 35% | BAZAAR | 6 | A place for the sale of goods, store |
| 35% | SUN | 3 | *Star at the center of our solar system, and a bright name for a newspaper |
| 35% | BETTYWHITE | 10 | "The Proposal" actress who won a Grammy for the spoken word recording of her book "If You Ask Me": 2 wds. |
| 34% | SKINNER | 7 | B F —, US behavioural psychologist who devised a box for studying the learning capacity of animals |
| 34% | RICHTER | 7 | Charles —, US seismologist after whom a scale for expressing the magnitude of an earthquake is named |
| 34% | PLOTLINE | 8 | The story of a book |
| 34% | PUTNAM | 6 | Herbert —, American librarian who originally developed the Library of Congress Classification system |
| 34% | MERCATOR | 8 | Flemish cartographer who coined the term “atlas” for a book of maps |
| 34% | OBAMA | 5 | Former U.S. president who won a Best Spoken Word Album Grammy Award for the audiobook of "Dreams from My Father" |