| SWINGTIME | Zadie Smith novel which borrows its title from a Fred Astaire film |
| RIO | Title city in a Fred Astaire hit |
| ERASERHEAD | David Lynch film that gets its title from a scene at a pencil factory |
| OFMICE | Steinbeck novel that took its title from a poem by Robert Burns (2,4,3,3) |
| ANDMEN | Steinbeck novel that took its title from a poem by Robert Burns (2,4,3,3) |
| ONBEAUTY | Best-selling 2005 Zadie Smith novel |
| WHITE | "___ Teeth" (award-winning Zadie Smith novel) |
| TEETH | "White ___" (2000 Zadie Smith novel) |
| BLUE | Dennis Potter drama that took its title from A.E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad (4,10,5) |
| THATLLBETHEDAY | 1973 British film starring David Essex, Rosemary Leach and Ringo Starr that took its title from a Buddy Holly hit |
| OFWRATH | Steinbeck novel that took its title from a song by Julia Ward Howe (3,6,2,5) |
| GRAPES | Steinbeck novel that took its title from a song by Julia Ward Howe (3,6,2,5) |
| THE | Steinbeck novel that took its title from a song by Julia Ward Howe (3,6,2,5) |
| VANITYFAIR | William Makepeace Thackeray's novel that takes its title from a place of frivolity and corruption in John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress (6,4) |
| HIGHSCHOOL | What 1986 ___ romantic comedy got its title from a song by the Psychedelic Furs? |
| OFMICEANDMEN | Steinbeck work that takes its title from a Burns poem |
| OMG | #1 hit for Usher and will.i.am that got its title from a text abbreviation |
| DADDYLONGLEGS | 1955 Fred Astaire film taken from a novel by Jean Webster (5,4,4) |
| KINGS | Which Cambridge college was founded by King Henry VI and counts among its alumni Robert Walpole, John Maynard Keynes. Salman Rushdie and Zadie Smith? (5) |
| AUTOGRAPHMAN | The ___, 2002 novel by Zadie Smith (9,3) |