| 100% | GMAN | 4 | 2023 Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of J. Edgar Hoover |
| 71% | GMAN | 4 | Book about J. Edgar Hoover that won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Biography |
| 45% | FREEH | 5 | Fourth successor of J. Edgar Hoover |
| 42% | OMAR | 4 | 2023 Pulitzer-Prize winning opera |
| 40% | TWO | 3 | Number of Pulitzer Prizes won by Colson Whitehead |
| 39% | EDNA | 4 | Pulitzer Prize-winning author ___ Ferber (anagram of "dean") |
| 37% | EDEL | 4 | Leon ___ who wrote a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography on Henry James |
| 37% | ANNIEPROULX | 11 | Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Shipping News" and "Brokeback Mountain" |
| 37% | LEE | 3 | Pulitzer Prize winning author Harper |
| 37% | AGEE | 4 | Pulitzer Prize winning novelist James ___ |
| 36% | AGEE | 4 | Pulitzer Prize winning American novelist, James |
| 35% | ART | 3 | Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist ___ Spiegelman who created "Maus" |
| 35% | RELEE | 5 | Pulitzer-winning biography of a Civil War general |
| 34% | LOISLANE | 8 | Pulitzer Prize winner of comics |
| 34% | GMEN | 4 | J. Edgar Hoover underlings |
| 34% | FBI | 3 | J. Edgar Hoover org. |
| 34% | FBI | 3 | J. Edgar Hoover's org. |
| 34% | FBI | 3 | J. Edgar Hoover Building org. |
| 34% | FBI | 3 | J. Edgar Hoover’s org. |
| 34% | FBI | 3 | J. Edgar Hoover Bldg. org. |
| 34% | THEFBI | 6 | J. Edgar Hoover Building org. |
| 34% | FBI | 3 | J. Edgar Hoover's agcy. |
| 34% | FBI | 3 | J. Edgar Hoover Bldg. occupant |
| 33% | EDEL | 4 | Leon who won a Pulitzer for his biography of Henry James |
| 33% | INIT | 4 | J. Edgar Hoover used one: Abbr. |
| 33% | GMAN | 4 | J. Edgar Hoover, e.g., informally |
| 33% | FBI | 3 | J. Edgar Hoover's organization: Abbr. |
| 33% | FBI | 3 | J. Edgar Hoover Building tenant: Abbr. |
| 33% | MICHAELCHABON | 13 | Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist who wrote "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay," 15-Across, and 47-Across (2 wds.) |
| 33% | TOOLE | 5 | Pulitzer Prize winner for “A Confederacy of Dunces” |