| 100% | CORRIDA | 7 | Subject of Hemingway's "Death in the Afternoon" |
| 57% | DIANA | 5 | Subject of Elton's "Candle in the Wind 1997" |
| 53% | STARR | 5 | Subject of James Carville's "... And the Horse He Rode In On" |
| 53% | HOLYGRAIL | 9 | Subject in Tennyson's "Idylls of the King" |
| 52% | TOREROS | 7 | Subjects in the Hemingway book "Death in the |
| 52% | WIVES | 5 | Subject of the mnemonic "Divorced, Beheaded, Died. Divorced, Beheaded, Survived" in Broadway's "Six" |
| 51% | DIANA | 5 | Subject of Elton John's "Candle in the Wind 1997" |
| 50% | EDSEL | 5 | Subject of the book "Disaster in Dearborn" |
| 50% | ROWERS | 6 | Subjects of "The Boys in the Boat" |
| 50% | MACINTOSH | 9 | Subject of the book "Revolution in the Valley" |
| 50% | SEURAT | 6 | Subject of "Sunday in the Park With George" |
| 50% | DDAY | 4 | Subject of the book "Six Armies in Normandy" |
| 50% | POLIO | 5 | Subject of the 1954 Nobel Prize in Medicine |
| 50% | TESLA | 5 | Subject of the biography "Lightning in His Hand" |
| 50% | DNA | 3 | Subject of the 1962 Nobel Prize in Medicine |
| 50% | HISTORY | 7 | Subject of the yellow questions in Trivial Pursuit |
| 50% | TULIP | 5 | Subject of an annual festival in the Netherlands |
| 50% | OLDMACDONALD | 12 | Subject of a children's song associated with the vowels in the answer to each starred clue |
| 50% | GONZO | 5 | In the style of Hunter S. Thompson, say |
| 50% | FATAL | 5 | Resulting in the death of someone |
| 50% | MATADORS | 8 | "Death in the Afternoon" figures |
| 50% | ELTONJOHN | 9 | "Candle in the Wind" singer/pianist who's the subject of 41-Across: 2 wds. |
| 49% | FOSSEY | 6 | Subject of the 1997 biography "Woman in the Mists" |
| 49% | ROYORBISON | 10 | Subject of the 2013 musical biography "Rhapsody in Black" |
| 49% | ATHENA | 6 | Subject of a massive statue in the ancient Parthenon |
| 49% | AREAMAN | 7 | Frequent subject of headlines in The Onion |
| 49% | SCIENCE | 7 | The S in STEM subjects |
| 49% | GRIMREAPER | 10 | Personification of death seen in “Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life” |
| 48% | ERNEST | 6 | Name on the cover of "Death in the Afternoon" |
| 48% | ARK | 3 | Subject of the quest in the first Indiana Jones film |