| 100% | STALINERA | 9 | Setting for "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" |
| 65% | IVAN | 4 | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s “One Day in the Life of ___ Denisovich” |
| 64% | IVAN | 4 | "One Day in the Life of ___ Denisovich" (novel by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn) |
| 60% | ULYSSES | 7 | Novel about one day in the life of three Dubliners |
| 46% | FIVEGOLDENRINGS | 15 | One set of gifts in "The 12 Days of Christmas" ... as suggested by the circled squares? |
| 46% | MPS | 3 | Ones serving in the House of Commons, for short |
| 45% | ROLE | 4 | One of 12 for Lily Tomlin in The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe |
| 44% | LEI | 3 | The record for the world's longest one of these, at 5,336 feet, was set in Honolulu at Kapiolani Park in 2008 |
| 44% | MRSDALLOWAY | 11 | Virginia Woolf's novel about a day in the life of a woman in England post World War I: 2 wds. |
| 43% | AMEBA | 5 | One of the little things in life? |
| 43% | OAT | 3 | One of the four grains in Life cereal |
| 43% | MONDAY | 6 | Day of the week for Thanksgiving in Canada |
| 43% | ARIA | 4 | One of two for the devil in ''Faust'' |
| 43% | NONET | 5 | Name for one of the 3x3 regions in a Sudoku grid |
| 42% | TUES | 4 | Day of the week for Tet in 2022: abbr. |
| 42% | REP | 3 | Short for one movement in a set of exercises |
| 42% | VLADIMIR | 8 | One of the men waiting in "Waiting for Godot" |
| 42% | SEC | 3 | One of the sixty in a minute, for short |
| 42% | COMICBOOK | 9 | Setting for each of the places in 15-, 21-, and 41-Across: 2 wds. |
| 42% | IDES | 4 | Day cited in ''The Lives of the Twelve Caesars'' |
| 42% | CAESAR | 6 | One of the lives in Plutarch's "Lives" |
| 41% | KAMA | 4 | One of the four proper objectives of human life, in Hinduism |
| 41% | NATIONAL | 8 | What one of the letters in 29-Across stands for |
| 41% | ENERGY | 6 | What one of the letters in E = mc2 stands for |
| 41% | ELF | 3 | Legolas in "The Lord of the Rings," for one |
| 41% | CCC | 3 | Year in the life of Constantine |
| 40% | SCULPTUREGARDEN | 15 | The Museum of Modern Art’s outdoor “Oasis in the City,” for one |
| 40% | OIL | 3 | What lasted for eight days, in the story of Hanukkah |
| 40% | CANISTER | 8 | One of a set in the kitchen |
| 40% | MII | 3 | Year in the life of Leif Ericson |