| 100% | IJEOMAOLUO | 10 | Writer of the bestseller "So You Want to Talk About Race" (2 wds.) |
| 61% | OLUO | 4 | "So You Want To Talk About Race" writer Ijeoma |
| 60% | ROBINDIANGELO | 13 | Writer of the bestseller "White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism" (2 wds.) |
| 59% | IJEOMA | 6 | So You Want to Talk About Race author __ Oluo |
| 54% | ISIT | 4 | "What ___ that you wanted to talk about?": 2 wds. |
| 54% | OLUO | 4 | “So You Want to Talk About Race” author Ijeoma |
| 54% | OLUO | 4 | "So You Want to Talk About Race" author Ijeoma ___ |
| 54% | OLUO | 4 | "So You Want to Talk About Race" author Ijeoma |
| 52% | RACE | 4 | "So You Want to Talk About ___" (Ijeoma Oluo bestseller) |
| 46% | RACE | 4 | "So You Want to Talk About ___" |
| 45% | RACE | 4 | "So You Want To Talk About ___" (Ijeoma Oluo book) |
| 45% | RACE | 4 | Ijeoma Oluo's "So You Want to Talk About ___" |
| 45% | RACE | 4 | Ijeoma Oluo's "So You Want to Talk About __" |
| 43% | LETSNOT | 7 | "___ go there!" ("I don't want to talk about that!"): 2 wds. |
| 42% | ASKA | 4 | "I want to ___ favor of you.": 2 wds. |
| 42% | ASKA | 4 | "I want to ___ favor of you": 2 wds. |
| 42% | BEVERLYCLEARY | 13 | Writer of the Ramona Quimby children's books who lived to age 104: 2 wds. |
| 41% | APEEP | 5 | "I don't want to hear ___ out of you!": 2 wds. |
| 41% | CHRISHARRISON | 13 | Host of the game show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire": 2 wds. |
| 40% | BONNIERAITT | 11 | "Something to Talk About" singer who received the Billboard Women in Music Icon Award in 2021: 2 wds. |
| 39% | LAYLAFSAAD | 10 | Writer of the bestseller "Me and White Supremacy" (3 wds.) |
| 38% | FOODCOMA | 8 | Feeling of being so full that you don't want to move: 2 wds. |
| 38% | SPEAKOFTHEDEVIL | 15 | "We were just talking about you!" and a hint to the first words of the answers to the starred clues |
| 37% | UNCLESAM | 8 | Symbol of the United States on "I want you" posters (2 wds.) |
| 37% | ORNOT | 5 | "Do you want to eat now ___?": 2 wds. |
| 37% | HEADOVERHEELS | 13 | 1985 Top 10 song by 42-Across that begins, "I wanted to be with you alone / And talk about the weather" (3 wds.) |
| 37% | DRSEUSS | 7 | Writer of the children's book, "The Cat in the Hat": 2 wds. |
| 37% | BEATRIXPOTTER | 13 | Writer of the children's story, "The Tale of Tom Kitten": 2 wds. |
| 37% | IMUP | 4 | "___ for anything" ("Whatever you want to do"): 2 wds. |
| 37% | BORISPASTERNAK | 14 | Russian writer of the novel "Doctor Zhivago": 2 wds. |