| 100% | EXLOVER | 7 | Subject of a kiss-and-tell story |
| 62% | RIDE | 4 | Subject of a Car and Driver rating |
| 62% | ROADTEST | 8 | Subject of a Car and Driver report |
| 60% | CHEGUEVARA | 10 | Subject of a classic black, white and red poster |
| 58% | MARILYN | 7 | Subject of a painting by Andy and a song by Elton |
| 58% | CENTRALBANK | 11 | Subject of a rap battle between Hamilton and Jefferson in "Hamilton" |
| 58% | THELIONKING | 11 | Animated film released in 1994 which was influenced by Shakespeare's "Hamlet" and tells the story of a character named Simba: 3 wds. |
| 57% | NARRATION | 9 | Telling of a story |
| 56% | COMICBOOK | 9 | Publication of a story told through drawings |
| 56% | BREXIT | 6 | Subject of a 2016 U.K. referendum, and a hint to five puzzle answers |
| 55% | TABLEAU | 7 | Painting or photograph of a scene telling a story |
| 55% | ROD | 3 | Stewart of "Every Picture Tells a Story" |
| 54% | TASSO | 5 | Italian poet who was the subject of a Goethe play and a Donizetti opera |
| 54% | EURO | 4 | Currency whose spelling was the subject of a dispute between Bulgaria and the ECB |
| 54% | SNOG | 4 | Passionate kiss and cuddle, to a Brit (anagram of "nogs") |
| 54% | NARRATION | 9 | Telling of a story or a voice track |
| 54% | BREXIT | 6 | Subject of a 2016 U.K. referendum ... or a hint to 16-, 25-, 41- and 55-Across |
| 54% | TUT | 3 | King who's the subject of a song by Steve Martin and the Toot Uncommons |
| 53% | SENTENCE | 8 | A string of words, with a subject and verb |
| 53% | SEDERS | 6 | Meals that tell a story of liberation |
| 53% | ACCOUNT | 7 | Personal telling of a story |
| 52% | PREDICATE | 9 | Part of a sentence, tells what the subject's doing |
| 52% | TMI | 3 | Surplus of private details told in a story |
| 52% | ABEL | 4 | "Cain and ___," a biblical story of two brothers |
| 51% | NARRATIVE | 9 | Record of events, told in a story-like way |
| 51% | MAO | 3 | Subject of Jung Chang and Jon Halliday's 2005 biography subtitled "The Unknown Story" |
| 51% | KENNEDY | 7 | A L —, author of story collections All the Rage and What Becomes |
| 51% | AMAATAAIDOO | 11 | Author of “Our Sister Killjoy” and “Changes: a Love Story” |
| 50% | ABCS | 4 | Nuts and bolts of a subject |
| 50% | ESTATE | 6 | Subject of a will |