| 100% | SURAT | 5 | Tolstoy wrote about the coffee house in this location in 1893 |
| 37% | ARENDT | 6 | *She wrote about the Eichmann trial in 1963 |
| 37% | PEACE | 5 | Tolstoy wrote about War and this |
| 36% | ICEMAN | 6 | In 1939 Eugene O'Neill wrote about Theodore "Hickey" Hickman joking about finding his wife "rolling in the hay" with this character |
| 35% | END | 3 | Apt answer for this location in the puzzle |
| 34% | JOHNREED | 8 | Journalist who wrote about the October Revolution in "Ten Days That Shook the World" |
| 34% | PEPPER | 6 | The Beatles sang about this Sergeant in 1967 |
| 34% | BLINDING | 8 | The Weeknd sang about these Lights in 2020 |
| 33% | LIPO | 4 | Poet written about in the Books of Tang |
| 32% | ACROSS | 6 | Direction of about half the words in this puzzle |
| 32% | LLOYDS | 6 | Association of London underwriters that began in a coffee house in Tower Street in the late 17th-century |
| 32% | LLOYDS | 6 | Association of London underwriters that began in a coffee house in Tower Street in the late 17th century |
| 32% | ULALUME | 7 | Title name written "on the door of this legended tomb," in poetry |
| 32% | JOYLUCK | 7 | Type of club Amy Tan wrote about in the '80s |
| 32% | YEA | 3 | "I'm for this proposal," in the House |
| 32% | ENG | 3 | The language this clue is written in: Abbr. |
| 32% | WAP | 3 | 2020 megahit that samples the 1993 song "Whores in This House" |
| 32% | XISTHE | 6 | With 46-Across, an observation about the game in this grid |
| 31% | HIDDENFIGURES | 13 | Oscar-nominated film about NASA mathematicians, and a description of the countdown found in this puzzle? |
| 31% | HORSE | 5 | Neiiigghh! I'm the animal you're learning about in this puzzle |
| 31% | TERRIFIC | 8 | Charlotte wrote this about Wilbur in her web |
| 31% | BED | 3 | Under the ___, location in your house where you may find dust bunnies and lost socks |
| 31% | THOMSETT | 8 | Sally —, actress who played Jo in 1970s ITV sitcom Man About the House |
| 30% | ACIDTRIP | 8 | Experience that Michael Pollan wrote about in the book "How to Change Your Mind" |
| 30% | HERE | 4 | In this location |
| 30% | PATMORE | 7 | English poet Coventry ___, who wrote "The Angel in the House" |
| 30% | PERK | 4 | "Central ___," fictional coffee house where all the characters used to hang out together in "Friends" |
| 30% | ATOMICNUMBERS | 13 | What this puzzle's two-letter answers correspond with, given their locations in the grid |
| 29% | TOADHALL | 8 | The finest house in The Wind in the Willows |
| 29% | CAPS | 4 | YOU PUT WRITING IN THESE WHEN YOU WANT TO DRAW THE READER'S ATTENTION TO IT |