| 100% | AUGUST | 6 | Month I've often written to the governor about asking "Where's the holiday?" |
| 30% | TOPLINE | 7 | Where to write your name on an I.R.S. form |
| 30% | FACEBOOKPROFILE | 15 | Where to see the writing on the wall? |
| 29% | GRID | 4 | Where to write the answers! |
| 29% | DANTE | 5 | Poet who wrote "In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost" |
| 29% | END | 3 | Where to write "Q.E.D." when you think you've proved the Beal conjecture |
| 29% | HEIDI | 5 | Schreck who wrote "What the Constitution Means to Me" |
| 29% | COMMENTCARD | 11 | Where to write feedback about a company |
| 28% | SHERYL | 6 | I wrote "Lean In" and became the first woman to join Facebook's board of directors |
| 28% | PINACOLADA | 10 | What I'm going to have after I've finished writing these clues and it's spelled out with the first two letters of five of the longest puzzle answers |
| 28% | SINATRA | 7 | He asks for someone to "Fly Me to the Moon" |
| 28% | SEP | 3 | Often the "Back to school" month, for short |
| 28% | WSJ | 3 | Where to read about the 50-Across: Abbr. |
| 28% | RIVER | 5 | Joni Mitchell song about heartbreak that's popular around the holidays but wasn't originally written as a Christmas song |
| 28% | NOONE | 5 | Garcia Mérquez's "_____ Writes to the Colonel" |
| 28% | NONFICTION | 10 | Type of book where the author writes about real events like Michelle Obama's "Becoming": Hyph. |
| 27% | ALDA | 4 | Actor who wrote the memoir “Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself” |
| 27% | HOMETEAM | 8 | Words often replaced when singing "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" |
| 27% | BBS | 3 | Item I used often to chat with others in the '90s with my super-fast 14.4 kbit/s modem (abbr.) |
| 27% | OLIVIA | 6 | Laing who wrote “Everybody: A Book About Freedom,” which asks the reader to “imagine, for a minute, what it would be like to inhabit a body without fear” (April, 2021) |
| 27% | TAX | 3 | It's often added to the retail price |
| 27% | GOLDENHOUSE | 11 | Salman Rushdie's work, "The ___" where he writes about the problem of nationwide identity crisis: 2 wds. |
| 27% | ALDA | 4 | Actor Alan who wrote the memoir "Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself" |
| 27% | CHAST | 5 | The New Yorker cartoonist who wrote "What I Hate: From A to Z" |
| 27% | CANDLEWITHHAIR | 14 | "... and I write '___' on the box, which seems to reassure him" |
| 27% | NIETZSCHE | 9 | German philosopher who wrote about the "will to power" |
| 27% | CRUELLEST | 9 | According to T. S. Eliot, April is the __ month |
| 27% | ALDA | 4 | Actor Alan who wrote the 2007 memoir "Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself" |
| 27% | WHIPPINGPOST | 12 | 1969 song written by the late Gregg Allman that begins, "I've been run down and I've been lied to" (2 wds.) |
| 27% | CALIFORNIA | 10 | The state where Arnold Schwarzenegger served as Governor from 2003 to 2011 |