| 100% | MADLIB | 6 | Story with blanks to be filled in by the reader |
| 46% | ELI | 3 | Name that can fill in the blank to form another name: Am___a |
| 44% | CROSSWORD | 9 | Puzzle containing squares to be filled in with letters |
| 43% | INASCRABBLEGAME | 15 | With 30- and 49-Across, test question to be answered by filling in the correct circle |
| 40% | WIZARD | 6 | In the story, Oz is run by one |
| 40% | LASTSONG | 8 | Novel by Nicholas Sparks about a 17 year old teen who is sent to stay with her father in the summer, "The ___": 2 wds. |
| 40% | FORM | 4 | To be filled in |
| 39% | AVA | 3 | Name that fills in the blanks to make another name: S_ _ _NNAH |
| 39% | TEEM | 4 | Be filled to the brim (with) |
| 38% | ELI | 3 | Name that can fill in the blank to form another name: F___X |
| 38% | IAN | 3 | Name that can fill in the blank to form another name: D___A |
| 38% | FLICKA | 6 | Horse to be tamed in the book by Mary O'Hara |
| 38% | LARGERTHANLIFE | 14 | "Millennium" Top 40 single by 47-Across with the lyrics "There are prices to fame alright / All of our time spent in flashes of light" (3 wds.) |
| 38% | NORA | 4 | Name that can fill in the blank in ME___H to form a word |
| 38% | MARIO | 5 | First video game character to be honored with a figure in the Hollywood Wax Museum |
| 38% | ERA | 3 | ISS attachment to be launched with the Russian Multipurpose Laboratory Module in summer next year |
| 37% | PAR | 3 | "He is on ___ with everyone else in the team." (equal to) |
| 37% | TSELIOT | 7 | He's commemorated by a stone at Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey that reads "the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living" |
| 37% | SNL | 3 | Letters that can fill in the blanks of "_A_D_ER" to make an appropriate surname |
| 37% | LEAD | 4 | "Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to ___" (bestseller by Sheryl Sandberg) |
| 37% | DOMBEYANDSON | 12 | Novel by Charles Dickens that deals with the story of a shipping firm owner who is frustrated at not having a son to take care of the business: 3 wds. |
| 37% | SATE | 4 | Word that can fill in the blanks in _ _ T I A _ _ to form a synonym of itself |
| 37% | DOANDROIDSDREAM | 15 | With 20-Across, story by 42-Across on which the movie "Blade Runner" is based |
| 37% | WECANREMEMBERIT | 15 | With 59-Across, story by 42-Across on which the movie "Total Recall" is based |
| 37% | SIDE | 4 | In billiards, spin imparted to a ball by striking it off-centre with the cue |
| 36% | EMU | 3 | Creature that can fill the blank in L___R to make another creature |
| 36% | LASTLETTERS | 11 | Explanatory information about this puzzle is revealed by reading these in the clues |
| 36% | SONOFMAN | 8 | Magritte work in which a face is obscured by an apple, with The |
| 36% | DRONE | 5 | Male bee in a colony whose function is to mate with the queen |
| 36% | BED | 3 | Place with pillows and blankets that is hard to leave in the morning |