| 100% | NARRATES | 8 | Reads Sleeping Beauty as a bedtime story, say (again and again, no doubt) |
| 32% | NARRATE | 7 | Read out, as a story |
| 32% | ALOUD | 5 | How a bedtime story is read |
| 32% | SLEEP | 5 | Goal of a bedtime story reading |
| 32% | READTO | 6 | Entertain, as with a bedtime story |
| 31% | RESCAN | 6 | Read again, as a UPC |
| 31% | YEP | 3 | "Without a doubt," as a cowboy might say |
| 31% | DENY | 4 | Say no to, as a request |
| 30% | RETELL | 6 | Share again, as a story |
| 30% | RETOLD | 6 | Shared again, as a story |
| 30% | PITHY | 5 | Short and sweet, as a saying |
| 29% | REBOOTS | 7 | Turns off and on again, as a computer |
| 29% | LOOP | 4 | Play over and over again, as a video |
| 29% | BOMBARDED | 9 | Struck over and over again, as a military target |
| 29% | PAN | 3 | A 2015 American fantasy film which serves as an alternative story for Peter and Captain Hook |
| 28% | SHAGGYDOG | 9 | Long, rambling and ultimately pointless, as a story or joke |
| 28% | REPEAT | 6 | Say again and again |
| 28% | ROTE | 4 | Saying again and again |
| 28% | REPETITION | 10 | Saying again and again |
| 28% | REPEATED | 8 | Said again and again |
| 27% | THECIDERHOUSELURES | 18 | Story of a youth who says to hell with it and goes to the pub? |
| 27% | MAKESABOOBOO | 12 | Misspells, say, as a ghost might at 20-, 28-, 37- and 50-Across? |
| 27% | STEFANI | 7 | No Doubt lead singer Gwen who has a voice role in "Trolls" and "Trolls World Tour" |
| 27% | SWIFT | 5 | Taylor ___, singer who also released a song called "Love Story" in 2008 and again in 2021 |
| 26% | ROMANTASY | 9 | Portmanteau genre for a love story about a dragon tamer and a rebellious princess, say |
| 26% | PILEITON | 8 | Assign two projects, a long reading and several writing assignments, say |
| 26% | DUMBQUESTION | 12 | There's no such thing as this, according to a saying |
| 26% | AMOS | 4 | Prophet who said "But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream" |
| 26% | REPETITIOUS | 11 | Saying same again and again |
| 26% | TRUE | 4 | "Based on a ___ story" (can be said for 16a, 32a, and 50a) |