| 100% | ANDMILESTOGO | 12 | With 63-Across, ending lines of a poem by 72-Across |
| 51% | HOPE | 4 | "___ is the thing with feathers," poem by Emily Dickinson with the line "...It asked a crumb of me." |
| 49% | BARBERSHOP | 10 | With 63-Across, singing group ... or a hint to the ends of the answers to the four starred clues |
| 49% | ITSRAINING | 10 | With 63-Across, the opening lines to a nursery rhyme suggested by this puzzle's circled letters |
| 49% | STANZA | 6 | Group of lines in a poem with repeating form |
| 47% | MORAL | 5 | End of a piece by 65-Across |
| 47% | LINE | 4 | With 14 Across, payoff at the end of a joke |
| 46% | MEN | 3 | "The Hollow ___," poem by T.S. Eliot which has the famous lines "...This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but with a whimper" |
| 46% | IFMY | 4 | With 36- and 43-Across, second line of the poem |
| 45% | ITOOAMAMERICA | 13 | Last line of a poem by 6-Down, which follows the lines "They'll see how beautiful I am / And be ashamed" (4 wds.) |
| 45% | ALITTLEMADNESS | 14 | Start of a poem by Emily Dickinson that continues "But God be with the Clown, / Who ponders this tremendous scene" |
| 44% | THE | 3 | With 68-Across, end of a Hemingway title |
| 44% | LILIES | 6 | "...And ___ face the March-winds in full blow..." (2nd line of a spring-themed poem written by 14a) |
| 44% | ENDYMION | 8 | Poem by John Keats, that starts with "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever..." |
| 44% | ALIEN | 5 | With 6-Across, subject of an eerie rural legend ... illustrated by connecting nine identically filled squares in this puzzle with a closed line |
| 43% | MIND | 4 | With 72-Across, motto of a fitness trainer? |
| 43% | SILENT | 6 | With 63 Across, source of quote |
| 43% | KUBLA | 5 | "___ Khan," poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge with the line "...and drunk the milk of Paradise." |
| 43% | NEUTRALTONES | 12 | 1867 melancholic poem written by Thomas Hardy about the end of a relationship: 2 wds. |
| 42% | WHENIPRONOUNCETHEWORD | 21 | Beginning of a thought by the 72-Across 102-Across 80-Across |
| 42% | DESIRE | 6 | "...And humbler growths as moved with one ___..." (3rd line from a spring-themed poem written by 14a) |
| 42% | KIMKARDASHIAN | 13 | TV personality with a line of exercise videos called "Fit in Your Jeans by Friday": 2 wds. |
| 42% | EPODE | 5 | Type of lyric poem composed of couplets in which a long line is followed by a shorter one |
| 42% | CASABLANCA | 10 | 1942 film that ends with the line “Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship” |
| 42% | PEAR | 4 | With 63 Across, ''partridge in a'' place |
| 42% | ODE | 3 | Lines of praise written by a poet |
| 42% | HEM | 3 | Line of stitches made by a tailor |
| 42% | TALL | 4 | With 17 Across, whopper of a story |
| 41% | MENDINGWALL | 11 | Poem by 39-Across with the line "Good fences make good neighbors" (2 wds.) |
| 41% | ICE | 3 | "Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ___..." line from a famous poem by Robert Frost |