| 100% | LADY | 4 | ___ Whistledown, author who gossips about the life of the Bridgertons |
| 54% | BAUM | 4 | Author who wrote about the Land of Oz |
| 48% | DANA | 4 | Author Spiotta who wrote “Wayward,” about a woman who flees her suburban family life in the wake of the 2016 Presidential election (July, 2021) |
| 46% | TESS | 4 | Author Gerritsen who writes about the crime-solving duo of Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles |
| 44% | WILLA | 5 | Author who wrote about frontier life |
| 43% | BORE | 4 | One who is hardly the life of the party |
| 42% | SHOWMAN | 7 | The Greatest __; film about the life of PT Barnum |
| 41% | NORTHLAND | 9 | Canadian 1942 documentary about the life of miners |
| 41% | BEYONDTHE | 9 | 2004 biopic about the life of Bobby Darin |
| 41% | TIGERKING | 9 | Smash-hit Netflix show about the life of the former zookeeper Joe Exotic |
| 41% | NELLYSACHS | 10 | 1966 Swedish Literature Nobelist who wrote about the struggles of the Jewish people |
| 41% | ALESSIA | 7 | Singer Cara who knows about The Pains of Growing |
| 41% | TABLE | 5 | "Chef's ___," Netflix show about the lives of the world's most successful chefs |
| 41% | EMILEZOLA | 9 | Author who was the title subject of the Best Picture of 1937 |
| 41% | NAOMIKLEIN | 10 | Author who described her book “Doppelganger” as being about “the horror of the society that flips fascist from within” (September, 2023) |
| 40% | VICAR | 5 | "The ___ of Christ", bestselling 1979 novel about the life of Declan Walsh |
| 40% | INTO | 4 | Sean Penn's "___ the Wild," about the life of Chris McCandless |
| 40% | SOA | 3 | Crime tragedy TV series about the life of Jax Teller: Abbr. |
| 40% | LEROUX | 6 | Author Gaston, who wrote The Phantom of the Opera |
| 40% | WYNDHAM | 7 | Author John, who wrote The Day of the Triffids |
| 40% | ASSASSIN | 8 | Someone who takes the lives of others |
| 39% | SHY | 3 | Like someone who's unlikely to be the life of the party |
| 39% | ACTS | 4 | "Death Defying ___," film about the life of Hungarian-American escapologist Harry Houdini |
| 39% | LAING | 5 | Scottish psychiatrist R.D. ___ who authored "The Facts of Life" |
| 39% | PLINY | 5 | — the Elder, Roman author who died witnessing the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD |
| 39% | TOLKIEN | 7 | Author who wrote "Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards" |
| 39% | BELIEFS | 7 | Convictions a person has about the meaning of life |
| 39% | ECO | 3 | Author Umberto who wrote "The Name of the Rose" |
| 39% | PISA | 4 | Leonardo of ___ (mathematician who wrote about the 33-Across) |