| 100% | ULTIMA | 6 | & 23A 1929 volume; third part of Henry Handel Richardson novel The Fortunes of Richard Mahony |
| 30% | CLUEGO | 6 | Third part of the description |
| 30% | MAKESSCENTSIF | 13 | Third part of the quip |
| 29% | PLEXUS | 6 | 1953 novel by Henry Miller, second volume of trilogy The Rosy Crucifixion |
| 28% | PALM | 4 | Part of the hand read by a fortune-teller |
| 28% | PALM | 4 | Part of the hand read by some fortune-tellers |
| 28% | SIEGFRIED | 9 | Third part of Der Ring des Nibelungen by Richard Wagner |
| 27% | POYNTON | 7 | The Spoils of __, 1895 novel by Henry James |
| 27% | PALM | 4 | Part of the hand examined by fortune-tellers |
| 27% | PALMS | 5 | Parts of the hand read by fortune-tellers |
| 27% | PALM | 4 | Part of the hand a fortune-teller may "read" |
| 27% | SCENEV | 6 | Part of the act when King Richard III dies |
| 27% | TERTIARY | 8 | Third level; former term for part of the Cenozoic |
| 26% | CLARISSA | 8 | 1748 novel by Samuel Richardson subtitled The History of a Young Lady |
| 26% | DANA | 4 | Richard Henry ___, author of "Two 67-Across Before the Mast" |
| 26% | STACPOOLE | 9 | Henry De Vere —, author of 1908 novel The Blue Lagoon |
| 26% | JAMES | 5 | Henry —, author of novels The Aspern Papers and Roderick Hudson |
| 26% | MEREDITH | 8 | George —, author of novels Beauchamp's Career and The Ordeal of Richard Feverel |
| 26% | CLEA | 4 | 1960 volume; final part of The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell |
| 26% | SOPHIA | 6 | & 16D Heroine of 1749 Henry Fielding novel The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling |
| 25% | HANNAY | 6 | Richard —, hero of John Buchan novels The Thirty-Nine Steps and Greenmantle |
| 25% | WILLIAMSON | 10 | Henry —, author of novels Tarka the Otter and Salar the Salmon |
| 25% | TREECE | 6 | Henry —, author of novels Viking's Dawn and The Dark Island |
| 25% | CLEA | 4 | 1960 novel; final part of The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell |
| 25% | BLIFIL | 6 | Nephew of Squire Allworthy in 1749 Henry Fielding novel The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling |
| 25% | KNEW | 4 | Henry James novel of 1897 about the daughter of divorced, narcissistic parents: "What Maisie ___" |
| 25% | GEORGE | 6 | & 23A Author of the novels The Nether World and Workers in the Dawn |
| 25% | HIRED | 5 | & 14D The —, 1969 Melvyn Bragg novel; first part of The Cumbrian Trilogy |
| 25% | OUTOFTHE | 8 | & 22A 1938 C S Lewis novel; first part of the Space Trilogy |