| 100% | STEPHENKING | 11 | "Carrie" author whose stories are usually set in Maine: 2 wds. |
| 81% | CARLHIAASEN | 11 | "Strip Tease" author whose stories are usually set in Florida: 2 wds. |
| 80% | LOUISEERDRICH | 13 | "The Round House" author whose stories are usually set in North Dakota: 2 wds. |
| 45% | JOHNCROWLEY | 11 | Author whose short story "Spring Break" won the 2018 Edgar Award in the Best Short Story category: 2 wds. |
| 39% | STEPHENKING | 11 | Horror writer whose stories are the basis for the Hulu series "Castle Rock": 2 wds. |
| 39% | XXXXXXXXXX | 10 | Thriller author whose novels are set in Kindle County |
| 38% | SUSANNAKAYSEN | 13 | American author whose memoir "Girl, Interrupted" was adapted into a 1999 film: 2 wds. |
| 37% | HARDY | 5 | Author Thomas, whose novels are set in Wessex |
| 37% | ANNAMAZZOLA | 11 | Author whose novel "The Unseeing" won the 2018 Edgar Award in the Best Paperback Original category: 2 wds. |
| 37% | JAYASHER | 8 | Author whose book "Thirteen Reasons Why" was adapted into a Netflix show of the same name: 2 wds. |
| 37% | JASONREYNOLDS | 13 | Author whose novel "Long Way Down" won the 2018 Edgar Award in the Best Young Adult category: 2 wds. |
| 36% | ITOO | 4 | "Am ___ set in my ways?": 2 wds. |
| 36% | OCEANVUONG | 10 | "On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous" author whose first name is a large body of water: 2 wds. |
| 36% | KRISTINHANNAH | 13 | Novelist whose bestseller "The Great Alone" is set in Alaska (2 wds.) |
| 35% | JLO | 3 | Singer whose "This Is Me ... Now" album dropped in 2024, for short: 2 wds. |
| 35% | HOMEALONE | 9 | 1990 comedy whose sequel was subtitled "Lost in New York": 2 wds. |
| 35% | JOHNBROWN | 9 | He led an abolitionist raid on Harpers Ferry, and his story is told in an upcoming 2020 Showtime miniseries: 2 wds. |
| 34% | JONKRAKAUER | 11 | Nonfiction writer whose bestseller "Into the Wild" is set in Alaska (2 wds.) |
| 34% | FAMILYMATTERS | 13 | Sitcom set in Chicago that was a spin-off of "Perfect Strangers" (2 wds.) |
| 33% | GOOD | 4 | "The ___ Shepherd," film starring Matt Damon whose story is partly set in Yale University |
| 33% | TIMRAINES | 9 | Outfielder whose #30 was retired by the Expos in 2004 and then unretired by the Nationals: 2 wds. |
| 33% | NEILGAIMAN | 10 | Author whose YA novel "The Graveyard Book" won the Newbery Medal in 2009: 2 wds. |
| 33% | KWAMEALEXANDER | 14 | Author whose children's book "The Crossover" won the Newbery Medal in 2015: 2 wds. |
| 33% | NEWYORK | 7 | Type of pizza usually sold in wide slices which can be folded: 2 wds. |
| 33% | PAULWALKER | 10 | Actor whose likeness was digitally recreated to complete his scenes as Brian O'Conner in "Furious 7": 2 wds. |
| 33% | PETERCUSHING | 12 | Actor whose likeness was digitally recreated to film his scenes as Grand Moff Tarkin in "Rogue One": 2 wds. |
| 33% | ONCAMPUS | 8 | Where college dorms are usually located: 2 wds. |
| 32% | OCEANSELEVEN | 12 | Ensemble caper movie of 2001 set in Las Vegas: 2 wds. |
| 32% | BLINDTIGER | 10 | 2021 Sandra Brown bestseller set in Texas during Prohibition: 2 wds. |
| 32% | THEGOLDBERGS | 12 | ABC comedy series set in the 1980s: 2 wds. |