| 100% | MOB | 3 | Subject of the 2011 Jon Roberts memoir "American Desperado," with "the" |
| 41% | PALIN | 5 | Subject of the 2011 book "The Rogue" |
| 39% | GULFWAR | 7 | Subject of the 2003 memoir "Jarhead" |
| 39% | ESPN | 4 | Subject of the 2011 book "These Guys Have All the Fun" |
| 39% | REAGAN | 6 | Subject of the biography "An American Hero" |
| 38% | LENO | 4 | Subject of the bio Leading with My Chin |
| 37% | DURST | 5 | Robert ___, subject of the Emmy-nominated HBO series "The Jinx" |
| 37% | LOISLANE | 8 | Subject of the 2023 TV series "My Adventures With Superman" |
| 37% | NAM | 3 | Subject of the 1977 best-selling memoir "A Rumor of War," for short |
| 37% | ADOPTION | 8 | Subject of the Nicole Chung memoir "All You Can Ever Know" |
| 37% | RONREAGAN | 9 | Author of the 2011 memoir "My Father at 100" |
| 37% | SCALIA | 6 | Political subject of the 2018 memoir "Nino and Me" |
| 36% | WVA | 3 | American state that is the subject of the song "Country Roads": Abbr. |
| 36% | URN | 3 | Subject of the poem with the words "Beauty is truth, truth beauty" |
| 36% | RONREAGAN | 9 | Author of the 2011 political memoir "My Father at 100" |
| 36% | SEURAT | 6 | Subject of "Sunday in the Park With George" |
| 36% | ECONOMICS | 9 | Subject that deals with the wealth of nations, say |
| 35% | DURST | 5 | Robert who was the subject of the 2003 true crime book "A Deadly Secret" |
| 35% | ANCIENT | 7 | With 42-Across, subject of the poem that contains the line 17-/65-Across |
| 35% | FAB | 3 | With the circled squares of 35-Across, subject of this puzzle |
| 35% | ANAT | 4 | Subject dealing with the structure of humans and animals, for short |
| 35% | ASHE | 4 | Sports great with the 1993 memoir "Days of Grace" |
| 34% | SHAUNWHITE | 10 | American snowboarder with the most number of X-Games gold and three Olympic golds: 2 wds. |
| 34% | SCI | 3 | Subject with the periodic table and the laws of motion, for short |
| 34% | ANN | 3 | With 12-Down, founder of the American Shakers (born 2/29/1736) |
| 34% | OAKLEY | 6 | Annie ___, American sharpshooter whose life was the subject of the musical "Annie Get Your Gun" |
| 34% | TAYLORSWIFT | 11 | *Singer with the most American Music Awards of all time (29) |
| 33% | ITSJUST | 7 | With 96- and 105-Across, how 122-Across explained the subject of this puzzle |
| 33% | GEO | 3 | Prefix with "graphy" for a subject dealing with the study of Earth |
| 33% | ZINNIA | 6 | Genus of American plants of the daisy family with brightly-coloured flowers |