| 100% | SATIRES | 7 | Works of Swift and Wilde |
| 52% | DIARIES | 7 | Works of Pepys and others |
| 51% | OSCAR | 5 | ___ Wilde, Irish playwright known for his famous works like "A Woman of No Importance" and "An Ideal Husband" |
| 48% | PRINTS | 6 | Works of art made by a raised surface and inking |
| 47% | SATIRE | 6 | A literary work of cutting ridicule and wit |
| 47% | POETIC | 6 | Like works of Kipling and Browning |
| 47% | EPICNOVEL | 9 | Work of fiction with many characters and story lines: 2 wds. |
| 46% | ENGAGED | 7 | Like Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce, as of August |
| 46% | FORGE | 5 | Blacksmith's work of creating with fire and metal |
| 46% | JUVENILIA | 9 | Early works of Branwell and Charlotte Brontë |
| 44% | BAROQUE | 7 | Like the works of Handel and Bach |
| 44% | IRELAND | 7 | Home of James Joyce and Oscar Wilde |
| 44% | RUSHHOUR | 8 | Start and finish of the work day |
| 44% | HIGHMAINTENANCE | 15 | Requiring a lot of work and attention |
| 44% | BIRDERS | 7 | Followers of jays and swifts |
| 44% | ABSTRACTART | 11 | Category for the works of Piet Mondrian, Mark Rothko, and Wassily Kandinsky |
| 43% | MACDONALD | 9 | Norm __ of SNL, Billy Madison, and Dirty Work |
| 41% | BIO | 3 | Brief outline of life and work |
| 41% | ILIAD | 5 | Work hinted at by the starts of 17-, 26-, 42- and 56-Across |
| 41% | PURNELL | 7 | James —, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions from 2008-09 |
| 41% | BLOODHOUND | 10 | Large breed of dog formerly used in tracking and police work |
| 41% | ROBOTS | 6 | Subject in Aaron Benanav’s “Automation and the Future of Work” |
| 41% | DEIMOS | 6 | Home of the Swift and Voltaire craters |
| 40% | IVES | 4 | Charles —, composer of the works Robert Browning Overture and Variations on America |
| 40% | GRAY | 4 | "The Picture of Dorian ___," 1980 gothic and philosophical novel by Oscar Wilde |
| 40% | AMORES | 6 | Title shared by works of Ovid and D. H. Lawrence |
| 39% | GOODALL | 7 | Jane ___ Institute, organization that works towards community-centered conservation and protection of primates |
| 39% | POWER | 5 | "Simon Schama's ___ of Art," documentary that profiles eight artists and their works |
| 39% | MEN | 3 | "Of Mice and ___" (Steinbeck work) |
| 39% | CMA | 3 | Org. that awarded Taylor Swift "Entertainer of the Year" in 2009 and 2011 |