| 100% | EYRE | 4 | "The ___ Affair" (Jasper Fforde novel) |
| 83% | FIRSTAMONG | 10 | & 14D 2007 Jasper Fforde novel |
| 79% | FOURTHBEAR | 10 | The —, 2006 novel by Jasper Fforde |
| 79% | EYREAFFAIR | 10 | The —, 2001 novel by Jasper Fforde |
| 69% | END | 3 | "The ___ of the Affair" (Graham Greene novel) |
| 67% | STYLES | 6 | The Mysterious Affair at __, an A. Christie novel |
| 64% | EYRE | 4 | "The ___ Affair" (murder mystery set in the universe of a Brontë novel) |
| 63% | EYRE | 4 | “The ___ Affair” (2001 novel set partly in the world of an 1847 novel) |
| 62% | END | 3 | "The ___ of the Affair" (1999 film based on a Graham Greene novel) |
| 61% | END | 3 | "The ___ of the Affair" (Graham Greene novel made into a Neil Jordan film) |
| 61% | END | 3 | "The ___ of the Affair" (Neil Jordan film based on a Graham Greene novel) |
| 61% | END | 3 | "The ___ of the Affair" (Julianne Moore film based on a Graham Greene novel) |
| 61% | PETULENGRO | 10 | Jasper —, character in novels by George Borrow including The Romany Rye and Lavengro |
| 61% | ALISON | 6 | Lurie who won the Pulitzer Prize for the novel “Foreign Affairs” |
| 60% | JASPER | 6 | Fforde who writes the "Thursday Next" mystery novels |
| 59% | HOLLINGHURST | 12 | Alan —, author of novels The Sparsholt Affair and The Stranger's Child |
| 59% | THOMPSON | 8 | Kate —, author of novels The O'Hara Affair and The Blue Hour |
| 55% | XYZ | 3 | The _____ Affair |
| 54% | TARBABY | 7 | 1981 novel by 43-Across about a love affair that begins in the Caribbean (2 wds.) |
| 54% | CASE | 4 | The affair of the bag |
| 52% | XYZ | 3 | The ___ Affair (1797 imbroglio) |
| 50% | ATIDE | 5 | "...___ in the affairs of men": Shak. |
| 50% | CIAGATE | 7 | The Plame affair, informally |
| 50% | AMOUR | 5 | Affair of the heart |
| 50% | IRANCONTRA | 10 | Affair of the 1980s |
| 50% | ROMANCE | 7 | Affair of the heart |
| 50% | CASE | 4 | Affair of the bag |