| 100% | BEATPOET | 8 | Any of the three authors of "Pull My Daisy" |
| 52% | AMI | 3 | Any of the Three Musketeers |
| 52% | HENRY | 5 | Any of the three Lancaster kings |
| 51% | JAY | 3 | One of the three authors of the Federalist Papers |
| 49% | VEDA | 4 | Any of the three sacred books in the "threefold knowledge" |
| 47% | BRONTE | 6 | Any of three author sisters |
| 47% | BADLUCK | 7 | Supposed consequence of any of the three no-nos in this puzzle |
| 46% | AMOSOZ | 6 | Author of novels My Michael and Panther in the Basement |
| 46% | ASIMOV | 6 | Author of the Three Laws of Robotics |
| 46% | DOT | 3 | Any of three in the word "Beijing" |
| 46% | DOT | 3 | Any of three in the word "Fiji" |
| 46% | STUMP | 5 | Any of the three upright wooden sticks used in cricket to form part of a wicket |
| 45% | ALEXANDRE | 9 | __ Dumas, author of The Three Musketeers |
| 45% | DUMAS | 5 | Alexandre, author of The Three Musketeers |
| 44% | TRIMESTER | 9 | Any one of the three terms into which the US academic year is divided |
| 44% | ASIMOV | 6 | I, Robot sci-fi author who developed the Three Laws of Robotics |
| 44% | BETTYFORD | 9 | Author of the memoir "The Times of My Life" (1978) |
| 43% | ELINORGLYN | 10 | Author of the novels Three Weeks and The Price of Things |
| 43% | GLUTEUS | 7 | Any of three muscles in each buttock that move the thigh |
| 43% | JUDITHKRANTZ | 12 | Late author of the novels Princess Daisy and Scruples |
| 43% | ETAL | 4 | The AMA uses this abbr. with no period and if there are more than six authors, but only lists three of them in any case |
| 43% | KOOMSON | 7 | Dorothy —, author of novels My Best Friend's Girl and The Ice Cream Girls |
| 43% | ROSE | 4 | Author of novels The World My Wilderness and The Towers of Trebizond |
| 43% | JOETORRE | 8 | Author of "Chasing the Dream: My Lifelong Journey to the World Series" |
| 43% | TONYPARSONS | 11 | Author of novels Men from the Boys and One for My Baby |
| 42% | GLYN | 4 | Elinor —, author of novels Three Weeks and The Price of Things |
| 42% | DUMAS | 5 | Alexandre —, author of novels The Three Musketeers and Twenty Years After |
| 42% | MAGUS | 5 | Any one of three wise men in the Bible |
| 42% | HAMSTRING | 9 | Group of three muscles in the thigh; often pulled |