| 100% | PRISONEREXCHANGE | 16 | Mission that 24-Across was on when he wrote 65-Across |
| 42% | BALTIMOREHARBOR | 15 | Where 24-Across was inspired to write 65-Across |
| 42% | DETROITTIGERS | 13 | Baseball team that 15-Across was facing when he got his 3,000th hit: 2 wds. |
| 41% | EXILE | 5 | Dante was one when he wrote the Divine Comedy |
| 38% | CARLHIAASEN | 11 | "Squeeze Me" author who wrote the novel that 49-Across is based on (2 wds.) |
| 38% | ASAP | 4 | When the news that your house is on fire should be delivered, briefly |
| 38% | INEXILE | 7 | Like Napoleon when he was on Elba |
| 37% | BRONTEPAPERTOWELS | 17 | Wipes that are strong enough to write on? |
| 37% | VICODIN | 7 | Drug Robin Thicke claimed to be abusing when he co-wrote 15-Across |
| 37% | ELMER | 5 | Howdy Doody's name when he was on radio |
| 37% | PCS | 3 | Notebooks that shouldn't be written on with pen |
| 36% | SARTRE | 6 | He wrote "I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating" |
| 36% | SARTRE | 6 | He wrote, "I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating" |
| 36% | BUTTERFLY | 9 | Pope wrote that this insect was broken on a wheel |
| 36% | TOLSTOY | 7 | He wrote the treatise on nonviolence The Kingdom of God Is Within You |
| 36% | ALIBI | 5 | Criminal's claim that he was elsewhere when the crime occurred |
| 35% | SUNTZU | 6 | He wrote "Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak" |
| 35% | AMBIGRAMS | 9 | Written designs that are also readable when flipped or rotated |
| 35% | TUESDAY | 7 | Those full of grace are born on this 24 hours |
| 35% | LLAMA | 5 | Animal that will spit on you when agitated |
| 35% | LLAMA | 5 | Animal that will spit on you when annoyed |
| 35% | PUGETSOUND | 10 | Body of water that 68-Across is on |
| 35% | POSTOFFICE | 10 | First novel written by Charles Bukowski which was published when he was 50 years old: 2 wds. |
| 35% | MBA | 3 | Degree that Phil Knight of Nike was earning when he came up with his business idea (abbr.) |
| 35% | TACOENO | 7 | ... Looking back on it, the best part of that game was when composer Brian gave you a Tex-Mex treat. That's why we called him ___.
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| 35% | FRANZKAFKA | 10 | He wrote "I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy" |
| 35% | POE | 3 | He wrote "All that we see or seem / Is but a dream within a dream" |
| 35% | DEADSEA | 7 | George Burns quipped that when he was a boy, it was only sick |
| 35% | ORALB | 5 | Dental-hygiene brand that was on the Apollo 11 mission to the moon |
| 34% | CURIOSITY | 9 | NASA rover that is conducting a mission on Mars |