| 100% | IOU | 3 | Written promise from a borrower |
| 58% | IOU | 3 | Debt paper from a borrower |
| 56% | IOU | 3 | Promise from a debtor |
| 55% | IDO | 3 | Promise from a groom: 2 wds. |
| 55% | IOU | 3 | Note from a borrower |
| 54% | ANOTHERTRAINISCOMING | 20 | Promise from a prolific wedding dress designer? |
| 54% | SOON | 4 | Common promise from a procrastinator |
| 52% | POSTCARD | 8 | Written souvenir from a tourist |
| 50% | ISHALL | 6 | Words from a promising individual? |
| 50% | IDO | 3 | Words from a promising couple? |
| 48% | GUARANTEE | 9 | A written promise or assurance |
| 48% | GARDENER | 8 | Borrower from a seed library |
| 48% | MFA | 3 | Degree from a creative writing program: Abbr. |
| 46% | EXCERPT | 7 | Short section from a film or piece of writing |
| 46% | IOU | 3 | Note written by a borrower |
| 45% | MEMOIR | 6 | A biography written from one's personal knowledge |
| 45% | WHATSTODAYSDATE | 15 | Question from someone writing a check |
| 45% | LOANSHOCK | 9 | Unexpectedly high interest rate for a borrower from a Boston bank? |
| 44% | ERASE | 5 | Remove writing from a surface |
| 44% | ERASE | 5 | Remove writing from a whiteboard |
| 43% | QUILLPEN | 8 | Writing implement made from a feather |
| 43% | PSALM | 5 | A bit of writing from the Judaean Desert's Qumran Caves |
| 43% | EGAN | 4 | Jennifer who wrote A Visit from the Goon Squad |
| 42% | IOU | 3 | Promise to pay from a broke gambler |
| 41% | ALCOTT | 6 | Louisa May ___, novelist who comes from a transcendentalist family who wrote the novel "Little Women" |
| 41% | MEMOIR | 6 | Term for a historical account written from one's personal knowledge |
| 40% | ATTIRE | 6 | "...Put on, to welcome spring, their best ___..." (4th line from a spring-themed poem written by 14a) |
| 40% | DESIRE | 6 | "...And humbler growths as moved with one ___..." (3rd line from a spring-themed poem written by 14a) |
| 39% | AESOP | 5 | A storyteller from ancient Greece, credited with writing 17-Across, 31-Across and 41-Across |
| 39% | IOU | 3 | Written promise |