| 100% | JANEAUSTEN | 10 | 19th-century author whose novel "Pride and Prejudice" has had numerous film and TV adaptations: 2 wds. |
| 81% | BRAMSTOKER | 10 | 19th-century author whose novel "Dracula" has had numerous film and TV adaptations: 2 wds. |
| 79% | CHARLESDICKENS | 14 | 19th-century author whose novella "A Christmas Carol" has had numerous film and TV adaptations: 2 wds. |
| 40% | HANDMAIDSTALE | 13 | Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel, "The ___" which has been adapted into a film, an opera and a TV series: 2 wds. |
| 37% | JUDIDENCH | 9 | British actress, made a "Dame," whose career spans film, theater, and TV: 2 wds. |
| 37% | ANNLECKIE | 9 | Sci-fi author whose 2013 novel "Ancillary Justice" won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards: 2 wds. |
| 36% | JESMYNWARD | 10 | Author whose novels "Salvage the Bones" and "Sing, Unburied, Sing" each won a National Book Award: 2 wds. |
| 36% | JANEAUSTEN | 10 | Author of "Pride and Prejudice": 2 wds. |
| 35% | JASONREYNOLDS | 13 | Author who has written "Ghost," "Patina," and other novels for kids in the middle school years: 2 wds. |
| 34% | JANEAUSTEN | 10 | Author of "Sense and Sensibility," "Pride and Prejudice," and 44-Across: 2 wds. |
| 34% | FIGHTCLUB | 9 | 1996 novel by Chuck Palahniuk featuring an unnamed protagonist, with a film adaptation starring Brad Pitt and Edward Norton: 2 wds. |
| 33% | CONNIEWILLIS | 12 | Sci-fi author whose 2010 two-volume novel "Blackout/All Clear" won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards: 2 wds. |
| 33% | LARRYMCMURTRY | 13 | American novelist whose 1985 novel "Lonesome Dove" won the Pulitzer Prize and whose six novels were adapted into films: 2 wds. |
| 32% | BREAKINGPOINT | 13 | "The ___," a 1950 film noir starring John Garfield and Patricia Neal, based on Ernest Hemingway's novel "TO Have and Have Not": 2 wds. |
| 32% | IDRISELBA | 9 | Actor whose birthday is today, who played the titular role in the TV series "Luther" and also appears in the "Thor" films: 2 wds. |
| 32% | TATEDONOVAN | 11 | "Argo" actor who voiced Hercules in Disney's animated "Hercules" films and TV series: 2 wds. |
| 31% | CARLHIAASEN | 11 | Author of such novels as "Skin Tight" and "Stormy Weather": 2 wds. |
| 31% | LIANEMORIARTY | 13 | Author of the novels "Nine Perfect Strangers" and 47-Across: 2 wds. |
| 31% | JAMESMICHENER | 13 | Author of 26 novels including "Texas" and "Alaska": 2 wds. |
| 31% | NEILGAIMAN | 10 | Author whose YA novel "The Graveyard Book" won the Newbery Medal in 2009: 2 wds. |
| 31% | DROZ | 4 | TV host and surgeon whose first name is Mehmet: 2 wds. |
| 31% | SAND | 4 | George —, 19th-century author of novels Indiana and Consuelo |
| 31% | ALASDAIRGRAY | 12 | "Lanark" writer whose novel "Poor Things" was adapted as a film starring Emma Stone, 17-Across, and 35-Across (2 wds.) |
| 31% | BETTYWHITE | 10 | Entertainer whose TV career has spanned seven decades: 2 wds. |
| 30% | PETERBENCHLEY | 13 | Author of "Jaws" who cameoed as a reporter in the 1975 film adaptation: 2 wds. |
| 30% | GILLIANFLYNN | 12 | Author who wrote the film adaptation of her own "Gone Girl": 2 wds. |
| 30% | LITTLEWOMEN | 11 | 2019 film adaptation of a Louisa May Alcott novel: 2 wds. |
| 30% | ANNAMAZZOLA | 11 | Author whose novel "The Unseeing" won the 2018 Edgar Award in the Best Paperback Original category: 2 wds. |
| 30% | NORMANMAILER | 12 | Author of the classic 1948 World War II novel "The Naked and the Dead": 2 wds. |
| 30% | AKIRAKUROSAWA | 13 | Japanese film director whose movies include "Seven Samurai" and "Rashomon": 2 wds. |