| 100% | ROTH | 4 | “The Plot Against America” author Philip |
| 86% | ROTH | 4 | Philip —, author of novels The Plot Against America and Portnoy's Complaint |
| 83% | ROTH | 4 | Philip —, author of the novels The Plot Against America and Portnoy's Complaint |
| 80% | ROTH | 4 | "The Plot Against America" novelist Philip |
| 70% | ROTH | 4 | Philip who wrote "The Plot Against America" |
| 63% | ZOE | 3 | "The Plot Against America" actress Kazan |
| 63% | RYDER | 5 | "The Plot Against America" actress Winona |
| 54% | MORGANSPECTOR | 13 | "The Plot Against America" actor who plays robber baron George Russell on 44-Across (2 wds.) |
| 53% | AGAINST | 7 | Philip Roth's "The Plot ___ America" |
| 48% | EMIGRES | 7 | French exiles plotted against the Revolutionaries |
| 40% | JOHNRINGO | 9 | US author of novels Against the Tide and Live Free or Die |
| 40% | BATES | 5 | Katharine Lee —, poet who authored the words to anthem America the Beautiful |
| 39% | ZADIESMITH | 10 | Author of “The Fraud,” whose plot involves the celebrated nineteenth-century Tichborne case (September, 2023) |
| 39% | BRAUTIGAN | 9 | Richard —, author of the novels In Watermelon Sugar and Trout Fishing in America |
| 39% | OLUO | 4 | Ijeoma ___, author of 2020's "Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America" |
| 39% | ROTH | 4 | Author Philip |
| 39% | ROTH | 4 | Author Philip ____ |
| 39% | HADITINFOR | 10 | Plotted against |
| 38% | SHOUT | 5 | Author and journalist Philip Norman's first book which is considered a biography of The Beatles |
| 38% | DICK | 4 | Author Philip K. ___ |
| 37% | ROTHS | 5 | Author Philip and others |
| 37% | ROTH | 4 | "Goodbye, Columbus" author Philip |
| 37% | EDEN | 4 | The plot of Genesis? |
| 36% | WYLIE | 5 | "Generation of Vipers" author Philip |
| 36% | ROTH | 4 | "Portnoy's Complaint" author Philip |
| 36% | MAURO | 5 | Religious author Philip |
| 36% | ROTH | 4 | Everyman author Philip __ |
| 36% | DICK | 4 | Philip K —, author of science fiction novels The Man in the High Castle and The Game-Players of Titan |
| 35% | CAPUTO | 6 | "A Rumor of War" author Philip |
| 35% | THICKENS | 8 | The plot __; things are getting interesting |