| 100% | OZEKI | 5 | Ruth, writer of A Tale For The Time Being |
| 73% | OZEKI | 5 | Ruth ___, author of "A Tale for the Time Being" and "The Book of Form and Emptiness" |
| 52% | FROSTBITE | 9 | Hazard of being outside in the cold for a long time |
| 51% | TAN | 3 | Color of skin that has been in the sun for a long time |
| 50% | ROWLING | 7 | Best-selling author who was a runner-up for Time's 2007 Person of the Year |
| 47% | LEY | 3 | Writer Willy who wrote "The Conquest of Space" ('49) and for whom a crater is named on the far side of the moon |
| 47% | HEIRS | 5 | Ones gathering for the reading of a will |
| 47% | TEMP | 4 | Person filling in a job for the time being, for short |
| 46% | EPS | 3 | The Time of Our Lives and She Is Coming, for Miley Cyrus |
| 46% | ICON | 4 | Image of a singing bowl, for the Insight Timer app |
| 46% | PETERFONDA | 10 | Actor who is the son of legendary actor Henry, famous for playing the villain in "Once Upon a Time in the West": 2 wds. |
| 45% | ADINTERIM | 9 | For the time being |
| 45% | PROTEM | 6 | For the time being |
| 45% | NOW | 3 | For the time being |
| 45% | INTERIM | 7 | For the time being |
| 45% | PROVISIONAL | 11 | For the time being |
| 45% | LIFESPAN | 8 | The length of time for which a person lives |
| 45% | ACTV | 4 | Time for the closing monologue of a Shakespeare play |
| 45% | MLK | 3 | Writer of the quote "Any law that uplifts human personality is just," for short |
| 44% | LOSER | 5 | Beck song that begins "In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey" |
| 44% | RIM | 3 | Part of a glass which is rolled in salt for the cocktail Margarita |
| 44% | STARR | 5 | Ringo ___, drummer for The Beatles whose name is reminiscent of a Christmas night |
| 44% | QUEEN | 5 | "Royal" title for the leader of a hive, who is followed by 11a |
| 44% | BOYHOOD | 7 | Time of being a child, for a male |
| 44% | PROTEM | 6 | For the time being, in some titles |
| 44% | LETRIDE | 7 | Ignore for the time being |
| 43% | ERA | 3 | Stretch of time that may be named for a leader |
| 43% | HANOI | 5 | Bank of ___ (institution the A-Team was jailed for robbing) |
| 43% | ORR | 3 | Winner of the Norris Trophy for a record eight times |
| 43% | EDITHWHARTON | 12 | 13-Across and 25-Across writer who was the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize in Literature, for her 1920 novel "The Age of Innocence" (2 wds.) |