| 100% | SKY | 3 | "All the Birds in the ___" (Nebula Award-winning novel by Charlie Jane Anders) |
| 87% | SKY | 3 | "All the Birds in the ___" (2017 Nebula Award winner by Charlie Jane Anders) |
| 61% | CHARLIE | 7 | "All the Birds in the Sky" Nebula winner __ Jane Anders |
| 48% | PDJELICLARK | 11 | Writer whose "A Master of Djinn" won the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 2022 (3 wds.) |
| 45% | AMERICANGODS | 12 | Novel by 39-Across that won the Hugo Award for Best Novel and the Nebula Award for Best Novel (2 wds.) |
| 45% | EMMY | 4 | Award won multiple times by "Modern Family" and "All in the Family" |
| 44% | INVISIBLEMAN | 12 | Novel written by Ralph Waldo Ellison (birthday today) which won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1953: 2 wds. |
| 43% | OSCAR | 5 | Award won by the director Chloé Zhao in 2021 |
| 43% | ASLEEP | 6 | "When We All Fall ___, Where Do We Go?," studio album by Billie Eilish that won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 2020 |
| 42% | GRAMMY | 6 | Award won by "DAMN." in the category of Best Rap Album |
| 41% | ESPY | 4 | Award won by Lance Armstrong in 2005 for the third straight year |
| 41% | LESS | 4 | Novel by Andrew Sean Greer that won the Pulitzer Prize in 2018 |
| 41% | SERPENT | 7 | Award-winning novel by Sarah Perry, The Essex __ |
| 41% | POSTCARDS | 9 | Novel by 29-Across that won the 1992 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction |
| 41% | BESTPLAY | 8 | Award won by "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" |
| 41% | CUJO | 4 | 1981 novel by Stephen King that won the British Fantasy Award |
| 41% | CONNIEWILLIS | 12 | Sci-fi author whose 2010 two-volume novel "Blackout/All Clear" won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards: 2 wds. |
| 40% | AMERICANAH | 10 | Novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie that won the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award |
| 40% | MVP | 3 | Award won by Justin Verlander in 2011, in addition to the Cy Young: Abbr. |
| 40% | EDGAR | 5 | Award won by Deepa Anappara in 2021, for “Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line” |
| 40% | MVP | 3 | Award won four times in the W.N.B.A. by A'ja Wilson |
| 40% | DUNE | 4 | Frank Herbert work that won the inaugural Nebula Award for Best Novel |
| 40% | GIRLFRIDAY | 10 | 2009 novel by Jane Green published in the US as Dune Road |
| 40% | BESTMUSICAL | 11 | Tony Award won by the starred answers in the years of their clues |
| 40% | SLEDGEHAMMER | 12 | Song that accounted for 9 of the 10 MTV Video Music Awards won by 17-Across in 1987 |
| 39% | SHORE | 5 | "Kafka on the ___," 2002 novel by Haruki Murakami which received the World Fantasy Award in 2006 |
| 39% | RULEOFWOLVES | 12 | Novel by 40-Across that won the 2021 Goodreads Choice Award for Young Adult Fantasy (3 wds.) |
| 39% | GAIN | 4 | Novel by Richard Powers that won the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Best Historical Fiction in 1999 |
| 39% | THEECHOMAKER | 12 | 2006 novel by 32-Across that won the National Book Award for Fiction (3 wds.) |
| 39% | GRAMMY | 6 | Award notably won in each of the "big four" categories by this puzzle's honoree |