| Date | Grid | Clue | Author | Editor |
| Sat, Feb 25, 2023 | 12D | Who wrote "Our life is frittered away by detail … Simplify, simplify" | Trent H. Evans | Shortz |
| Fri, Aug 19, 2022 | 49A | He wrote "All good things are wild and free" | Patrick John Duggan | Shortz |
| Tue, Jun 28, 2022 | 35D | Transcendentalist who wrote "Walden" | Scott Graham | Shortz |
| Fri, Jan 24, 2020 | 21D | "Civil Disobedience" essayist, 1849 | Scott Earl | Shortz |
| Mon, Oct 07, 2019 | 22A | Philosopher who wrote "Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty" | Keiran King | Shortz |
| Sat, Dec 23, 2017 | 15A | He wrote "In wildness is the preservation of the world" | Matthew Sewell | Shortz |
| Sun, Sep 25, 2016 | 2D | "Walden" writer | Jim Holland and Jeff Chen | Shortz |
| Sun, Aug 25, 2013 | 20D | He wrote "It is life near the bone where it is sweetest" | Victor Barocas | Shortz |
| Wed, Sep 30, 2009 | 55A | See 70-Across | Kevin G. Der | Shortz |
| Sun, Nov 26, 2006 | 95D | "Nothing is so much to be feared as fear" penner | Manny Nosowsky | Shortz |
| Sat, Nov 09, 1996 | 12D | Noted transcendentalist | F. Longo | Shortz |
| Wed, May 18, 1994 | 12A | Walden Pond habitue | Daniel R. Stark | Shortz |