| 100% | CANYOU | 6 | & 10D First of the Palliser novels by Anthony Trollope published in serial form in 1864 and 1865 |
| 39% | LUCKOF | 6 | & 6D The —, William Thackeray novel first published in serial form in 1844 |
| 37% | THESPOILS | 9 | 1897 Henry James novel first published in serial form as The Old Things |
| 35% | KINGJOHN | 8 | The Life and Death of —, stage play by William Shakespeare first published in 1623 |
| 34% | ASTUDYIN | 8 | & 16D First of four Sherlock Holmes novels by Arthur Conan Doyle, published in book form in 1888 |
| 33% | GIFT | 4 | The —, Vladimir Nabokov novel originally published in serial form in 1938 whose central character is Fyodor Godunov-Cherdyntsev |
| 32% | AYALASANGEL | 11 | Anthony Trollope novel first published in 1881 |
| 32% | SALLY | 5 | "The Adventures of ___," novel by P.G. Wodehouse first published as a book in 1922 |
| 32% | WARDROBE | 8 | "The Lion, the Witch and the ___," first novel in the fantasy series "The Chronicles of Narnia" by C.S. Lewis |
| 32% | JOY | 3 | "___ in the Morning," novel by P.G. Wodehouse first published in 1946 |
| 31% | STRANGER | 8 | "The ___," novel by Albert Camus published in 1942 which follows the life of a character named Meursault |
| 31% | SHE | 3 | H Rider Haggard novel subtitled A History of Adventure first published in book form in 1887 |
| 31% | NARNIA | 6 | Setting of seven fantasy novels by C S Lewis published in the 1950s |
| 30% | BERTRAMS | 8 | The —, 1859 novel by Anthony Trollope |
| 30% | SUNDAYSIMMONS | 13 | "___ and Charlie Brick," third novel by the English novelist Jackie Collins published in 1971: 2 wds. |
| 30% | ATOMICPILE | 10 | The first one of these was built by Fermi and his team in 1942 |
| 30% | ANITA | 5 | &25A Author of novels In Custody and The Village by the Sea |
| 30% | NINABALATKA | 11 | 1867 novel by Anthony Trollope set in Prague |
| 30% | AMYDORRIT | 9 | Title character of an 1857 novel by Charles Dickens born and raised in the Marshalsea debtors' prison |
| 30% | DESAI | 5 | Anita —, author of the novels In Custody and The Village by the Sea |
| 30% | GIRONDE | 7 | Estuary in France formed by the confluence of the Rivers Dordogne and Garonne |
| 30% | SONS | 4 | Word in the titles of novels by Ivan Turgenev and D. H. Lawrence |
| 30% | UNISON | 6 | Trade union formed in 1993 by the amalgamation of COHSE, NALGO, and NUPE |
| 30% | DAVID | 5 | With 43-Across, singer of the lyric formed by the first parts of 20-, 24-, 40-, 51- and 58-Across |
| 30% | NANCYDREW | 9 | Fictional girl detective who first appeared in 1930 novel The Secret of the Old Clock by Carolyn Keene |
| 29% | EMILYBRONTE | 11 | Author of novel Wuthering Heights, first published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell |