| 100% | ALICE | 5 | "How Doth the Little Crocodile" reciter of an 1865 novel |
| 40% | LIANEMORIARTY | 13 | Author of the novel "Big Little Lies" which was adapted into an Emmy-winning TV series: 2 wds. |
| 36% | DOTH | 4 | "How ___ the little crocodile...": Lewis Carroll |
| 35% | LORD | 4 | "___ of the Flies" (dystopian novel about boys marooned on an island) |
| 34% | DOTH | 4 | "How ___ the little crocodile improve his shining tail...": Lewis Carroll |
| 34% | ANDRE | 5 | Author of the novels An Act of Terror and Other Lives |
| 34% | SETH | 4 | Vikram —, author of novels The Golden Gate and An Equal Music |
| 34% | SETH | 4 | Vikram —, author of the novels The Golden Gate and An Equal Music |
| 34% | ASASET | 6 | How you might purchase "The Lord of the Rings" novels |
| 33% | SOPHIEHANNAH | 12 | Author of the novels A Game for All the Family and Little Face |
| 33% | HOME | 4 | 2012 novel by 43-Across about an African-American veteran of the Korean War |
| 32% | SELMA | 5 | Southern site of an 1865 battle |
| 32% | FIELDING | 8 | Henry —, author of novels Amelia and An Apology for the Life of Mrs Shamela Andrews |
| 32% | ANY | 3 | The least bit of |
| 32% | EVILS | 5 | The lesser of two ___ |
| 32% | TWO | 3 | The lesser of ___ evils |
| 32% | EVILS | 5 | The lesser of two __ |
| 32% | OLIVER | 6 | 1968 musical based on an 18-/41-Across novel, winner of the Oscar for Best Picture |
| 32% | RENO | 4 | "Make the biggest little mistake of your life in ___" (tourism slogan in an Arrested Development gag) |
| 32% | THERESA | 7 | The Little Flower of Jesus |
| 32% | HOOT | 4 | The least bit of concern |
| 31% | GODS | 4 | "The Food of the ___ and How It Came to Earth," 1904 sci-fi novel by H.G. Wells |
| 31% | ALCOTT | 6 | Author of the semi-autobiographical novel “Little Women” |
| 31% | AMYDORRIT | 9 | Title character of an 1857 novel by Charles Dickens born and raised in the Marshalsea debtors' prison |
| 31% | AKBAR | 5 | Kaveh whose novel “Martyr!” follows an Iranian American writer grappling with the meaning of death (January, 2024) |
| 31% | CANYOU | 6 | & 10D First of the Palliser novels by Anthony Trollope published in serial form in 1864 and 1865 |
| 31% | EVILS | 5 | The lesser of two ___ (unpleasant actions) |
| 31% | FRIENDSGIVING | 13 | Holiday gathering of one's chosen family ... or an explanation of how the themed answers have been transformed |