| 100% | AKIND | 5 | "___ of Loving" (Stan Barstow novel) |
| 57% | STAN | 4 | "A Kind of Loving" novelist Barstow |
| 54% | CHOLERA | 7 | Novel by García Márquez: Love in the Time of __ |
| 52% | CHOLERA | 7 | Garcia-Márquez novel: Love in the Time of __ |
| 52% | PEACOCK | 7 | Thomas Love —, author of 1831 novel Crotchet Castle |
| 52% | SEGAL | 5 | Erich —, author of novels Only Love and Prizes |
| 52% | ERICHSEGAL | 10 | Author of novels Doctors, Only Love and Prizes |
| 51% | BARSTOW | 7 | Stan —, author of novels A Kind of Loving and The Watchers on the Shore |
| 51% | IANMCEWAN | 9 | Author of novels Enduring Love and The Cement Garden |
| 50% | SCHEINMANN | 10 | Danny —, author of 2007 novel Random Acts of Heroic Love |
| 50% | SONGS | 5 | "The Love ___ of W.E.B. Du Bois" (2021 novel) |
| 50% | MILWARD | 7 | Richard —, author of novels Apples and Ten Storey Love Song |
| 50% | PEACOCK | 7 | Thomas Love —, author of novels Gryll Grange and Crotchet Castle |
| 49% | QUIXOTE | 7 | Fictional nobleman whose love of romantic novels makes him go crazy |
| 49% | MANNING | 7 | Olivia —, author of novels The Rain Forest and School for Love |
| 48% | MALCOLM | 7 | & 22A Author of novels From Aberystwyth with Love and Aberystwyth Mon Amour |
| 47% | BADDIEL | 7 | David —, comedian and author of novels Time for Bed and Whatever Love Means |
| 47% | AKIND | 5 | & 24A 1960 novel by Stan Barstow |
| 47% | AMATORY | 7 | Of love |
| 46% | WYNDHAMLEWIS | 12 | Vorticist painter; author of novels The Revenge for Love and The Apes of God |
| 46% | ADAIR | 5 | Gilbert —, author of novels The Holy Innocents and Love and Death on Long Island |
| 46% | LABOR | 5 | ___ of love |
| 46% | SEA | 3 | "____ of Love" |
| 45% | BATES | 5 | H E —, author of novels Love for Lydia and Fair Stood the Wind for France |
| 45% | ADAIR | 5 | Gilbert —, author of the novels The Holy Innocents and Love and Death on Long Island |
| 44% | LOTS | 4 | "___ of love" (letter ender) |