| 100% | BREVITYIS | 9 | With 24 and 15 Across, quote from "Hamlet" |
| 47% | BEASHAMEDTO | 11 | With 24-, 38-, 52-, and 61-Across, Horace Mann quote that's the motto of Antioch College |
| 45% | TWOHUNDREDTH | 12 | With 41 and 55 Across, what 15 Across is |
| 43% | ABRIEF | 6 | With 38 and 47 Across, best-seller written by 24/49 Across |
| 43% | TWOTHINGSALWAYS | 15 | With 10- and 15-Down, a Fellini quote |
| 42% | NOTWHILE | 8 | With 24-Across, song from 18-Across |
| 41% | KILLERSOF | 9 | With 24- and 28-Across, 2023 film directed by Martin Scorsese |
| 40% | GIN | 3 | With 24-Across, card game with runs and sets |
| 40% | SELA | 4 | With 24-Across, Emmy winner for "Once and Again" |
| 40% | CARDIGAN | 8 | Hit single from 15-Across with the lyrics "You put me on and said I was your favorite" |
| 40% | PROTESTANT | 10 | With 24-Across, movement resulting from the "Ninety-Five Theses" |
| 40% | ELEMENTARY | 10 | With 24-Across, well-known line of literature and film |
| 40% | ALAN | 4 | With 24-Across, Emmy winner for acting, writing and directing |
| 39% | TIC | 3 | With 24- and 45-Across, game represented by this completed puzzle's grid |
| 39% | THOMAS | 6 | With 9 Down and 71 Across, source of quote |
| 39% | IFYOUAREFREE | 12 | With 34- and 49-Across, Toni Morrison quote |
| 38% | WAKANDA | 7 | With 15-Across, inspirational salute from T'Challa |
| 38% | CHANGE | 6 | With 36- and 39-Across, go from 1- to 61-Across |
| 38% | FIRE | 4 | With 15-Across, station with a hook and ladder |
| 37% | DREAMSARE | 9 | With 36 Across and 61 Across, a quote by Lupita Nyong'o |
| 37% | JOHNB | 5 | With 65-Across, Irish writer and author of the quote |
| 37% | LYNDA | 5 | With 13-Across, model and actress born July 24, 1951 |
| 37% | ZAKIYA | 6 | With 15 and 16 Across, writer with the 2021 debut novel "The Other Black Girl" |
| 37% | EARTHIN | 7 | With 24 Across, 1992 best-seller |
| 37% | ERROR | 5 | With 24 Across, quality control concern |
| 37% | COOL | 4 | With 66- and 67-Across, source of this puzzle theme's quote |
| 37% | DAYS | 4 | With 32- and 33-Across, 15-Across's first full-length album |
| 36% | SOFTANIMAL | 10 | With 62-Across, oft-quoted phrase from Mary Oliver's "Wild Geese" ... and a hint to this puzzle's theme |
| 36% | WHATA | 5 | With 15 and 20 Across, a 1967 song sung by Louis Armstrong in "Good Morning, Vietnam" |
| 36% | ABOOKMUSTBE | 11 | With 31-, 46- and 61-Across, comment from Franz Kafka |