| 100% | NOM | 3 | ___ de plume (author's pen name) |
| 91% | NOM | 3 | ___ de plume (an author's pen-name) |
| 86% | NOM | 3 | ___ de plume (writer's pen name) |
| 74% | NOM | 3 | ___ de plume (author's other name) |
| 67% | NOM | 3 | ___ de plume (pen name) |
| 64% | NOMDE | 5 | ___ plume (author's pen-name): 2 wds. |
| 64% | SAKI | 4 | When William Came author's pen name |
| 62% | ISAK | 4 | "Out of Africa" author's pen name, ___ Dinesen |
| 61% | NOM | 3 | ___ de plume (author's alias) |
| 61% | ROBERTGALBRAITH | 15 | Pen name of the female author of "The Cuckoo's Calling" |
| 59% | OUIDA | 5 | Louise de la Ramee's pen name |
| 59% | OUIDA | 5 | Novelist de la Ramee's pen name |
| 58% | NOM | 3 | ___ de plume (pen-name) |
| 58% | NOM | 3 | ___ de plume (fake name) |
| 56% | STENDHAL | 8 | "Le Rouge et le Noir" French author's pen name |
| 55% | CHARLOTTE | 9 | Author whose pen name was Currer Bell: __ Brontë |
| 54% | GEORGEELIOT | 11 | Pen name of the female author of "Silas Marner" |
| 54% | ELLISBELL | 9 | Pen name of the female author of "Wuthering Heights" |
| 53% | ISAKDINESEN | 11 | Pen name of the author of 19-Across: 2 wds. |
| 53% | ANDYSTACK | 9 | Pen name of the female author of True Detective stories |
| 53% | ISAKDINESEN | 11 | Pen name of the female author of "Out of Africa" |
| 53% | HERRIOT | 7 | James __; pen name of vet author Alf Wight |
| 53% | OHENRY | 6 | William Sydney Porter's pen name |
| 53% | MOLIERE | 7 | Jean Baptiste Poquelin's pen name |
| 53% | TSELIOT | 7 | Thomas Stearns Eliot's pen name |
| 53% | SAKI | 4 | Hector Hugh Munro's pen name |
| 53% | ELIA | 4 | Essayist Charles Lamb's pen name |
| 51% | LEWIS | 5 | ___ Carroll, pen name for the author and poet Charles Dodgson |
| 51% | OUIDA | 5 | Novelist Louise de la Ramée's pen name |
| 50% | SAKI | 4 | H. H. Munro's pen name |