| 100% | REALNAMES | 9 | What Voltaire and Mark Twain were not |
| 47% | ELMIRA | 6 | New York city where Mark Twain was married and buried |
| 44% | SEEN | 4 | What children should be, and not heard, they say |
| 43% | BIGTENCONFERENCE | 16 | What Minnesota and Michigan are part of, but not Missouri |
| 42% | DST | 3 | What Ariz. and Hawaii are the only two states not to have |
| 41% | PILOT | 5 | Mark Twain was one |
| 41% | INDOORS | 7 | Not alfresco, and what this puzzle is vis-à-vis its border answers |
| 40% | EUROS | 5 | What marks and francs have been replaced with |
| 40% | SPOKEN | 6 | What ASL, DGS and IPSL are not |
| 39% | WORLDSAPART | 11 | Not remotely on the same page ... and what can literally be found in four puzzle rows |
| 39% | ELMIRA | 6 | Where Mark Twain is buried |
| 39% | ELMIRA | 6 | City where Mark Twain is buried |
| 39% | LOOSELY | 7 | How Mark Twain is often quoted |
| 38% | KAPLAN | 6 | "Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain" author Justin |
| 38% | STYLE | 5 | "___ is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn": Gore Vidal |
| 38% | HUMORIST | 8 | Mark Twain or Will Rogers |
| 37% | ELMIRA | 6 | New York city where Mark Twain is buried |
| 37% | ELMIRA | 6 | Upstate New York city where Mark Twain was born |
| 37% | ELMIRA | 6 | Upstate New York city where Mark Twain was buried |
| 37% | PAUPER | 6 | Mark Twain's "The Prince and the ___" |
| 37% | PENNAMES | 8 | Mark Twain and George Sand, e.g. |
| 37% | PENNAMES | 8 | Mark Twain and George Eliot, for two |
| 37% | FROG | 4 | Mark Twain's Dan'l was one |
| 36% | SEEM | 4 | "Things are not what they ___" |
| 36% | SEEM | 4 | "Things are not always what they ___" |
| 36% | SEEM | 4 | "Things are not always what they __" |
| 36% | SEEM | 4 | "Things are not always what they ___..." |
| 36% | APOLITICAL | 10 | What this year's online DNC and RNC definitely were not |
| 35% | REAL | 4 | What Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy are not |
| 35% | ADOPT | 5 | What Esther and Mark Talley did for Jamie Foxx |