| 100% | THEWIND | 7 | Scarlett O'Hara's way of life was gone with this |
| 42% | VIVIEN | 6 | Leigh, was Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind |
| 40% | TARA | 4 | Scarlett O'Hara's plantation in "Gone With the Wind" |
| 40% | TARA | 4 | Scarlett O'Hara's homestead in "Gone With the Wind" |
| 39% | HARA | 4 | Scarlett O' ____ of "Gone With the Wind" |
| 39% | HARA | 4 | Scarlett O' ___ of "Gone With the Wind" |
| 36% | LEADROLE | 8 | Scarlett O'Hara in "Gone With the Wind" |
| 36% | BUTLER | 6 | Rhett ___, Scarlett O'Hara's main romantic interest in Margaret Mitchell's novel "Gone With The Wind" |
| 35% | MOZART | 6 | Amadeus was the movie of this composer's life |
| 34% | AVOID | 5 | Go out of one's way to not deal with |
| 34% | JULES | 5 | With 141-Down, author whose work is the basis of this puzzle's theme |
| 34% | RUNDMC | 6 | Trio with a hip-hop cover of Aerosmith's "Walk This Way" |
| 34% | CABARET | 7 | Life is one of these, or so sang Liza Minnelli |
| 34% | KICKSTART | 9 | Get a motorbike going with one of these |
| 33% | FASTLANE | 8 | Jet-setter's way of life |
| 33% | FASTLANE | 8 | Jet- setter's way of life |
| 33% | THROW | 5 | Light bed cover ... and a verb that goes with the first parts of this puzzle's four longest answers |
| 32% | SALTWATER | 9 | Oceans are filled with this type of liquid |
| 32% | OHARA | 5 | Scarlett of Gone With the Wind |
| 32% | TIC | 3 | With 40- and 43-Across, game that's been played in each of this puzzle's corners |
| 32% | INTHISECONOMY | 13 | "... with the way things are currently going?!" |
| 32% | NOS | 3 | There are eight of these before "baby" in Elvis's "A Big Hunk o' Love" |
| 32% | TARA | 4 | Scarlett O'Hara lived on this plantation |
| 32% | SPREADTHEWEALTH | 15 | Be generous with one's good fortune, as depicted by the movement of this puzzle's circled letters |
| 32% | LING | 4 | CNN's "This Is Life with Lisa ___" |
| 32% | LING | 4 | CNN's "This Is Life With Lisa __" |
| 32% | EVIL | 4 | "Most of the ___ in this world is done by people with good intentions": T.S. Eliot |
| 32% | SCARLETT | 8 | Ms O'Hara, the heroine of Gone With The Wind |
| 31% | LOATH | 5 | "I am ___ to let go of this" (Reluctant) |
| 31% | URUGUAY | 7 | Montevideo is capital of this S American country |