| 100% | READA | 5 | Mortimer Adler's "How to ___ Book" |
| 77% | READA | 5 | "How to ___ Book," book by Mortimer J. Adler: 2 wds. |
| 60% | ADLER | 5 | "How to Read a Book" author Mortimer |
| 56% | STEPONE | 7 | How-to book's starting point |
| 50% | MANUAL | 6 | How-to book |
| 49% | OFMICEANDMENDING | 16 | Book on how to repair rodent damage? |
| 48% | THEJOYOFCOOING | 14 | How-to book for lovebirds? |
| 47% | COLLAPSE | 8 | "___: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed" (Jared Diamond book) |
| 46% | TIEA | 4 | How to ___ knot (Boy Scout's lesson) |
| 46% | IDIOTS | 6 | Some how-to book targets? |
| 46% | INSTRUCTIVE | 11 | Like a how-to book |
| 45% | FREEASSOCIATION | 15 | How to solve this puzzle's starred clues |
| 45% | PUTNI6ELETTERSINORDER | 21 | How to get this puzzle's final word |
| 45% | RAFT | 4 | How to reach Disneyland's Tom Sawyer Island |
| 45% | SHAKEN | 6 | How to serve Bond's Martini, not stirred |
| 45% | DUMMIES | 7 | "For ___" (popular how-to book series) |
| 44% | IDIOTS | 6 | Word in many how-to book titles |
| 44% | MADEEASY | 8 | Ending for a how-to book title |
| 43% | AOLE | 4 | How to say no at Paia's Mama's Fish House |
| 42% | ALOUD | 5 | How children's books are often read |
| 42% | ONONEFOOT | 9 | How to pirouette |
| 42% | SLYLY | 5 | How to cheat |
| 42% | LEHMANN | 7 | Lilli —, German operatic soprano whose publications include 1902's How to Sing |
| 42% | ROTATECLOCKWISE | 15 | How to see the image formed by this puzzle's circled letters |
| 42% | UPSIDEDOWN | 10 | How to read the "words" written on this puzzle's 108-Across |
| 41% | SHOWINTELL | 10 | Demonstratin' how to shoot an apple off someone's head? |
| 41% | WIN | 3 | "How to ___ Friends and Influence People" (Dale Carnegie book) |
| 41% | ASFARASICANTELL | 15 | "That's how it looks to me, anyway" |
| 41% | IMO | 3 | "Here's how I see it," to texters |
| 41% | THEDAVINCIODE | 13 | Book that's a paean to a painter? |