| 100% | CRY | 3 | "___, the Beloved Country" (Alan Paton novel) |
| 73% | CRY | 3 | Alan Paton's "___, the Beloved Country" |
| 68% | PATON | 5 | "Cry, the Beloved Country" author Alan |
| 68% | PATON | 5 | “Cry, the Beloved Country” author Alan |
| 68% | PATON | 5 | "Cry, the Beloved Country" novelist Alan |
| 67% | ALAN | 4 | "Cry, the Beloved Country" novelist Paton |
| 67% | ALAN | 4 | “Cry, the Beloved Country” author Paton |
| 63% | PATON | 5 | Alan —, author of novels Cry, the Beloved Country and Too Late the Phalarope |
| 60% | ALAN | 4 | Paton of "Cry, the Beloved Country" fame |
| 60% | PATON | 5 | Alan —, author of the novels Cry, the Beloved Country and Too Late the Phalarope |
| 53% | PATON | 5 | "Cry, the Beloved Country" author |
| 53% | ALANPATON | 9 | "Cry, the Beloved Country" author |
| 53% | ALANPATON | 9 | "Cry, the Beloved Country" novelist |
| 53% | ALANPATON | 9 | “Cry, the Beloved Country” author |
| 52% | ALANPATON | 9 | Author of “Cry, the Beloved Country” |
| 51% | ALAN | 4 | With 20-Across, “Cry, the Beloved Country” author |
| 51% | ALANPATON | 9 | South African author of Cry, the Beloved Country |
| 47% | OWLSERVICE | 10 | The —, 1967 novel by Alan Garner |
| 47% | OPENDOOR | 8 | The —, 1989 novel by Alan Sillitoe |
| 46% | KORDA | 5 | Zoltan —, director of film dramas Cry, the Beloved Country and A Woman's Vengeance |
| 42% | HOLLINGHURST | 12 | Alan —, author of novels The Sparsholt Affair and The Stranger's Child |
| 41% | EDNAOBRIEN | 10 | Author of novels The Country Girls and A Pagan Place |
| 39% | DOLLYPARTON | 11 | Country music superstar who wrote the novel "Run, Rose, Run " with 33-Across (2 wds.) |
| 39% | EDNAOBRIEN | 10 | Author of novels The Country Girls and A Pagan Place (4,1’5) |
| 36% | PIE | 3 | "The Sweetness at the Bottom of the ___" (first novel in Alan Bradley's "Flavia de Luce" series) |
| 36% | MORRISON | 8 | Toni __, wrote the prize-winning novel Beloved |
| 36% | BOTTOM | 6 | "The Sweetness at the ___ of the Pie" (first novel in Alan Bradley's Flavia de Luce mystery series) |
| 35% | SCOTT | 5 | The Father of the Historical Novel |
| 34% | MINDS | 5 | "Splinter of the ___ Eye," Star Wars Legends novel written by Alan Dean Foster |
| 34% | JACKSON | 7 | Country singer alan |