| 100% | RUMI | 4 | Poet whose work was set to music by Philip Glass and Robert Wilson in the chamber opera “Monsters of Grace” |
| 45% | HEINE | 5 | Poet whose works were set to music by Schumann, Strauss and Brahms |
| 29% | AMANITA | 7 | Psychedelic mushroom whose color and role in Nordic shamanic rituals is believed by some to be the source of Santa Claus’s red-and-white suit |
| 29% | LEAN | 4 | "___ In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead" (bestseller by Sheryl Sandberg) |
| 27% | BROWNING | 8 | Robert —, poet whose works include How they Brought the Good News From Ghent To Aix and Love Among the Ruins |
| 27% | SPENGLER | 8 | Oswald —, German philosopher whose two-volume work The Decline of the West was published in 1918 and 1923 |
| 27% | BROWNING | 8 | Robert —, poet whose works include How they Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix and The Ring and the Book |
| 26% | LEAD | 4 | "Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to ___" (bestseller by Sheryl Sandberg) |
| 26% | RICHARD | 7 | ___ Rodgers, composer with works like "Oklahoma!' and "The Sound of Music" who was the first person to win the EGOT |
| 26% | ROLL | 4 | "Rock and ___ Music," hit released by The Beach Boys in 1976 which was a cover of a song by Chuck Berry |
| 26% | FIG | 3 | Fruit tree whose leaves were reportedly used by Adam and Eve in the Bible to cover themselves |
| 26% | SHELLEY | 7 | Percy Bysshe —, poet whose works include The Masque of Anarchy and Queen Mab |
| 26% | ROSSETTI | 8 | Christina —, 19th-century English poet whose works include Remember and The Lambs of Grasmere |
| 25% | ASTRO | 5 | Member of the M.L.B. team whose manager and G.M. were suspended and dismissed in January, 2020, due to a sign-stealing scandal |
| 25% | FIG | 3 | Fruit-bearing tree whose leaves were used by Adam and Eve in the Bible to clothe themselves |
| 25% | ORGAN | 5 | Tommy, lead guitarist in The Jacksons' "Unity Tour" of 2012 and 2013, who would seem to be playing the wrong instrument, judging by his name |
| 25% | LYKEWAKE | 8 | & 18D Traditional English song set to music by Benjamin Britten in his 1943 Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings (4-4,5) |
| 25% | FIG | 3 | Fruit-bearing tree whose leaves were reportedly used by Adam and Eve in the Bible to cover themselves |
| 25% | NICHELLENICHOLS | 15 | Actress whose work with NASA is the focus of the documentary “Woman in Motion” |
| 25% | HIDDENGEM | 9 | Diamond in the rough, and what can be found in each set of circles |
| 24% | AFTAB | 5 | Artist Arooj whose work draws on jazz, reggae, Sufi music, and the poetry of Rumi |
| 24% | SATYAGRAHA | 10 | 1979 opera by Philip Glass loosely based on the life of Mahatma Gandhi |
| 24% | WWI | 3 | Setting of the Robert Graves memoir "Good-bye to All That," in brief |
| 24% | MARENMORRIS | 11 | 1-Across, 12-Across, 27-Across, and 50-Across country/pop singer who was named Female Vocalist of the Year by the Country Music Association in 2020 (2 wds.) |
| 24% | ATOZ | 4 | The works ... or how each set of circled letters in this puzzle is arranged |
| 24% | TOLLS | 5 | "For Whom the Bell ___," novel by Ernest Hemingway, set in the Spanish Civil War and is regarded as one of his best works |
| 24% | STABATMATER | 11 | Hymn set to music by Vivaldi and Haydn |
| 24% | AVEMARIA | 8 | Prayer set to music by Schubert and Gounod |
| 24% | OWED | 4 | "Never in the field of human conflict was so much ___ by so many to so few": Churchill |
| 24% | RUISLIP | 7 | Town in the London Borough of Hillingdon whose two current MPs are Boris Johnson and Nick Hurd |