| 100% | PAULO | 5 | ___ Coelho, novelist of "The Alchemist" |
| 74% | PAULO | 5 | "The Alchemist" novelist Coelho |
| 74% | PAULO | 5 | "The Alchemist" novelist ___ Coelho |
| 71% | COELHO | 6 | Paulo __, author of The Alchemist |
| 69% | COELHO | 6 | Author of The Alchemist: Paulo __ |
| 68% | LECARRE | 7 | John __, novelist of The Night Manager |
| 68% | DOSPASSOS | 9 | John __, novelist of the USA trilogy |
| 67% | DAN | 3 | ___ Brown, novelist of The Da Vinci Code |
| 66% | LEROUX | 6 | Gaston __, novelist of The Phantom of the Opera |
| 64% | DESADE | 6 | Infamous libertine and novelist of the 18th century, Marquis ___ |
| 64% | SUSANN | 6 | "Valley of the Dolls" novelist |
| 64% | NIN | 3 | "Children of the Albatross" novelist |
| 64% | NIN | 3 | "Cities of the Interior" novelist |
| 64% | MAUPIN | 6 | "Tales of the City" novelist |
| 63% | GREY | 4 | "Riders of the Purple Sage" novelist |
| 63% | ERLE | 4 | "Out of the Silence" novelist Cox |
| 63% | ISABEL | 6 | "City of the Beasts" novelist Allende |
| 63% | GREY | 4 | "West of the Pecos" novelist Zane |
| 63% | ZANE | 4 | "Code of the West" novelist Grey |
| 63% | KEN | 3 | "Eye of the Needle" novelist Follett |
| 62% | IAIN | 4 | "An Instance of the Fingerpost" novelist Pears |
| 62% | ZANE | 4 | "Riders of the Purple Sage" novelist Grey |
| 62% | ODELL | 5 | "Island of the Blue Dolphins" novelist Scott |
| 62% | MACLEAN | 7 | Alistair __, novelist of Fear is the Key |
| 62% | DEFOE | 5 | “A Journal of the Plague Year” novelist |
| 62% | GRADY | 5 | "Six Days of the Condor" novelist James |
| 62% | SUDAN | 5 | Home country of the novelist Tayeb Salih |
| 61% | CORNELIAFUNKE | 13 | Novelist of 18-Across and the "Inkheart" trilogy (2 wds.) |
| 61% | DEFOE | 5 | "A Journal of the Plague Year" novelist, 1722 |