| 100% | THESTRANGER | 11 | 2015 novel by 40-Across featuring a mysterious man who manipulates people by revealing personal secrets (2 wds.) |
| 39% | THEBURIEDGIANT | 14 | 2015 novel by 41-Across featuring a married couple struggling with memory (3 wds.) |
| 37% | IWILLFINDYOU | 12 | 2023 novel by 40-Across about a man wrongly accused of murdering his son (4 wds.) |
| 36% | SHELLGAME | 9 | 2018 novel by 40-Across featuring 18-Across (2 wds.) |
| 35% | WALTLONGMIRE | 12 | Sheriff of the fictional county of Absaroka, Wyoming, who is featured in 20 books by 40-Across and a 2012-2017 television series (2 wds.) |
| 35% | CRIMSONPEAK | 11 | 2015 gothic romance starring 30-Across as a man hiding many secrets: 2 wds. |
| 35% | MAYBESOMEDAY | 12 | 2014 novel by 33-Across featuring a love triangle with college student Sydney, her boyfriend, and her neighbor: 2 wds. |
| 34% | TIMETRAVELERS | 13 | "The ___ Wife," bestselling debut novel by Audrey Niffenegger published in 2003 about a man who moves through time and his wife: 2 wds. |
| 34% | CILKASJOURNEY | 13 | Novel by 15-Across about a woman who is sent to Siberia after surviving Auschwitz (2 wds.) |
| 34% | THEUNCONSOLED | 13 | 1995 novel by 41-Across featuring a pianist struggling with memory (2 wds.) |
| 34% | THERAINMAKER | 12 | 1956 film featuring Burt Lancaster as a con man who promises to relieve a drought: 2 wds. |
| 33% | TRUEBELIEVER | 12 | Novel by Nicholas Sparks about a science journalist who falls in love with a girl in Boone Creek: 2 wds. |
| 33% | EDIBLEWOMAN | 11 | "The ___," 1969 novel by Margaret Atwood about a young woman named Marian who is a market researcher: 2 wds. |
| 33% | GLASSHOUSES | 11 | Most recent novel in the mystery series by 40-Across featuring 30-Across (2 wds.) |
| 33% | STUARTLITTLE | 12 | Children's novel by E.B. White featuring a boy who is two inches tall and looks like a mouse (2 wds.) |
| 33% | SULFURSPRINGS | 13 | Mystery novel by William Kent Krueger featuring 40-Across (2 wds.) |
| 33% | COPPERRIVER | 11 | Mystery novel by William Kent Krueger featuring 40-Across (2 wds.) |
| 33% | THEFAMILIAR | 11 | 2024 historical fantasy novel by 30-Across featuring two people with magical powers in the Spanish Golden Age (2 wds.) |
| 32% | SPLITSECOND | 11 | First novel by 31-Across featuring former Secret Service agents Sean King and Michelle Maxwell (2 wds.) |
| 32% | BEAUTIFULDAY | 12 | Bestselling novel by Elin Hilderbrand featuring a summer wedding on Nantucket (2 wds.) |
| 32% | VANISHINGACTS | 13 | Jodi Picoult novel about a missing persons investigator who discovers she'd been kidnapped by her father as a child (2 wds.) |
| 32% | BEAUTIFULDAY | 12 | 2013 bestselling novel by Elin Hilderbrand featuring a summer wedding on Nantucket (2 wds.) |
| 32% | ABOUTGRACE | 10 | 28-Across's debut novel, which tells the story of a man who dreams events that later come true (2 wds.) |
| 32% | THETORNSKIRT | 12 | Novel by 47-Across about a high schooler who becomes obsessed with a homeless girl (3 wds.) |
| 31% | THESTAND | 8 | Stephen King novel about a group of people who survive a worldwide pandemic: 2 wds. |
| 31% | THEANTIDOTE | 11 | 2025 novel by 30-Across about a Nebraska town during the Great Depression: 2 wds. |
| 31% | JAMESMCAVOY | 11 | "X-Men: Apocalypse" star who played the title character of 28-Across in a 2015 movie: 2 wds. |
| 31% | MATTHASSELBECK | 14 | Quarterback who was a starter with the Indianapolis Colts in 2015 at age 40: 2 wds. |
| 31% | THELITTLELIAR | 13 | Novel by 43-Across about a boy who always tells the truth (3 wds.) |
| 31% | FIGHTCLUB | 9 | 1996 novel by Chuck Palahniuk featuring an unnamed protagonist, with a film adaptation starring Brad Pitt and Edward Norton: 2 wds. |