| 100% | INNOCENT | 8 | What "I Is for," in a Sue Grafton book title |
| 93% | UNDERTOW | 8 | What "U Is for," in a Sue Grafton book title |
| 93% | HOMICIDE | 8 | What "H Is for," in a Sue Grafton book title |
| 83% | DEADBEAT | 8 | What "D Is for," in a book title in Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone detective series |
| 80% | NOOSE | 5 | What "N Is for" in a Sue Grafton title |
| 79% | ALIBI | 5 | What "A is for," in a Sue Grafton book |
| 78% | NOOSE | 5 | What "N" is for, in a Sue Grafton title |
| 66% | NOOSE | 5 | What "N Is for" in one of Sue Grafton's titles |
| 58% | ALIBI | 5 | What "A" is for, in Sue Grafton's mystery series |
| 49% | REB | 3 | Title for Tevye in "If I Were a Rich Man" |
| 49% | TITLE | 5 | What 7a is for a book |
| 46% | LIBEL | 5 | What a tabloid may be sued for |
| 46% | LIBEL | 5 | What a newspaper might be sued for |
| 46% | ITALS | 5 | A book title may be in it: Abbr. |
| 44% | ALIBI | 5 | Sue Grafton’s “A Is for ___” |
| 44% | LWORD | 5 | What might be "love" or "lesbian" in a TV show title |
| 44% | CDS | 3 | What there may be a lot of interest in, for short? |
| 43% | VISFORVENGEANCE | 15 | *22nd in a Sue Grafton series |
| 43% | COSTUME | 7 | I am a type of "designer" responsible for all the iconic outfits in a film. Who am I? |
| 43% | TEAPOT | 6 | What "I" am, in a kid's song |
| 43% | EARTH | 5 | What is the only planet in our solar system not named for a deity? |
| 42% | PITS | 4 | "If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries What Am I Doing in the ___?" (Erma Bombeck book) |
| 42% | IOTA | 4 | What I will represent in Greece |
| 42% | PINK | 4 | I was a member of the girl group "Choice" before going solo and I played Dede in "Thanks for Sharing" |
| 41% | PLANET | 6 | What each word in "My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Noodles" is a stand-in for |
| 41% | YES | 3 | ''Just what I was hoping for'' |
| 41% | YES | 3 | ''Just what I was hoping for!'' |
| 41% | YES | 3 | ''Exactly what I was hoping for!'' |
| 41% | ACT | 3 | Anagram of the animal in 23a which is what Ryan Reynolds does for a living |
| 40% | NODRAMA | 7 | What most hope for in a relationship |