| 100% | THE | 3 | "We ___ Animals" (Justin Torres novel) |
| 49% | NORMA | 5 | Torres of the US House |
| 48% | HARTLEY | 7 | Justin of "This Is Us" |
| 48% | WERE | 4 | "How Beautiful We ___" (Mbue novel) |
| 48% | PIGS | 4 | Animals that give us bacon |
| 48% | HART | 4 | Animal of compassion, we hear |
| 47% | THOMAS | 6 | Justin __, US golfer known as JT |
| 46% | PASSAGE | 7 | Justin Cronin's novel of vampirism outbreak |
| 46% | GOAT | 4 | Animal mascot of the US Naval Academy |
| 46% | CIA | 3 | US organization in many spy novels: Abbr. |
| 45% | HARTLEY | 7 | Justin, star of This Is Us and Revenge |
| 44% | ELKS | 4 | Antlered animals of the western US |
| 44% | ELK | 3 | Grazing animal of the western US |
| 43% | ROSE | 4 | Justin —, golfer who won the 2013 US Open championship |
| 43% | GOAT | 4 | Animal that's the mascot of the US Navy |
| 43% | ELEPHANT | 8 | Animal symbol of the Republican party in the US |
| 43% | SHEEP | 5 | From what animals do we get catgut? |
| 43% | WILLACATHER | 11 | US author of novels O Pioneers! and My Antonia |
| 43% | AMY | 3 | ___ Bloom, author of 2014 novel "Lucky Us" |
| 42% | THERACE | 7 | 2011 novel by Clive Cussler and Justin Scott |
| 42% | COW | 3 | Animal whose milk is used to make most US cheeses |
| 42% | ALL | 3 | "___ the Light We Cannot See" (Anthony Doerr novel) |
| 42% | EARTH | 5 | "On ___ We're Briefly Gorgeous" (Ocean Vuong novel) |
| 42% | DWORKIN | 7 | Andrea —, US feminist who authored 1990 novel Mercy |
| 42% | SHELBY | 6 | & 19A US author of 1952 historical novel Shiloh |
| 42% | VIDAL | 5 | Gore —, US author of novels Julian and Creation |
| 41% | NICOLEKRAUSS | 12 | US author of novels Great House and The History of Love |
| 41% | ELDOCTOROW | 10 | US author of novels Andrew's Brain and Homer and Langley |
| 41% | EVER | 4 | "The Most Fun We ___ Had" (Claire Lombardo bestselling novel) |
| 41% | SEE | 3 | "All the Light We Cannot ___" (2015 Pulitzer-winning novel) |