| 100% | THEBELLS | 8 | Poe poem with the line "How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle" |
| 59% | ITOO | 4 | Langston Hughes poem with the lines "They'll see how beautiful I am / And be ashamed" |
| 59% | ITOO | 4 | Langston Hughes poem with the lines "They'll see how beautiful I am / and be ashamed-" |
| 57% | ITOOSINGAMERICA | 15 | Opening of the Langston Hughes poem with the lines "They'll see how beautiful I am / And be ashamed" |
| 53% | RAVEN | 5 | "The ___," poem by Edgar Allan Poe with the line "...Merely this, and nothing more." |
| 50% | ITOO | 4 | Hughes poem with the line "They send me to eat in the kitchen" |
| 48% | ITOO | 4 | Langston Hughes poem with the lines "They send me to eat in the kitchen / When company comes" |
| 48% | ITOO | 4 | Langston Hughes poem with the lines “They send me to eat in the kitchen / When company comes” |
| 46% | ITOO | 4 | Poem with the lines "Nobody'll dare / Say to me, / 'Eat in the kitchen'" |
| 46% | GOODWILLHUNTING | 15 | Film with the Boston-accented line "How do you like them apples?" |
| 44% | SESTINA | 7 | Poem with six lines whose name derives from the Italian for "sixth" |
| 44% | BELLS | 5 | Poe poem, with "The" |
| 43% | MENDINGWALL | 11 | Poem by 39-Across with the line "Good fences make good neighbors" (2 wds.) |
| 43% | GEMS | 4 | Uncut ___ (Adam Sandler movie with the line "This is how I win") |
| 43% | ITOO | 4 | Langston Hughes poem with the lines "Nobody'll dare / Say to me, / 'Eat in the kitchen,' / Then" |
| 43% | STILLIRISE | 10 | Classic poem with the lines "Did you want to see me broken? / Bowed head and lowered eyes?" |
| 42% | HUMANFAMILY | 11 | 43-Across poem with the lines "We are more alike, my friends, / Than we are unalike" (2 wds.) |
| 41% | STILLIRISE | 10 | Classic poem with the lines "Leaving behind nights of terror and fear ... Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear" |
| 41% | TIMBER | 6 | Pitbull/Ke$ha hit with the line "The bigger they are, the harder they fall" |
| 41% | KUBLA | 5 | "___ Khan," poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge with the line "...and drunk the milk of Paradise." |
| 41% | UREMINDME | 9 | No. 1 Usher song with the line “Wish I knew how to separate the two” |
| 41% | STILL | 5 | "___ I Rise," poem by Maya Angelou with the line "...I rise, I rise, I rise." |
| 41% | WEEP | 4 | "Immortality," poem by Clare Harner with the line "Do not stand at my grave and ___" |
| 41% | OMOO | 4 | Book with the chapter "How They Dress in Tahiti" |
| 41% | SHE | 3 | "___ Walks in Beauty," poem by Lord Byron with the line "...A heart whose love is innocent!" |
| 41% | MEXICANGOTHIC | 13 | Silvia Moreno-Garcia novel with the lines “The walls speak to me. They tell me secrets” |
| 41% | ANCIENT | 7 | With 42-Across, subject of the poem that contains the line 17-/65-Across |
| 40% | IFMY | 4 | With 36- and 43-Across, second line of the poem |
| 40% | CASEYATTHEBAT | 13 | Ernest L. Thayer poem about baseball with the line "there is no joy in Mudville" (4 wds.) |
| 40% | FISHHEADS | 9 | 1978 novelty song with the line "Eat them up! Yum!" ... and what both parts of the answers to starred clues can be |