| 100% | ANNIE | 5 | Author E. __ Proulx |
| 91% | ANNIE | 5 | Pulitzer-winning author E. _____ Proulx |
| 61% | ANNIE | 5 | Novelist E. __ Proulx |
| 58% | NESBIT | 6 | “The Railway Children” author E. ___ |
| 57% | THESHIPPINGNEWS | 15 | E. Annie Proulx novel |
| 55% | JAMES | 5 | "Fifty Shades of Grey" author E.L. ___ |
| 53% | JAMES | 5 | E.L. ___, author of 18-Across |
| 53% | WOMEN | 5 | This puzzle's authors, e.g. |
| 50% | BENSON | 6 | E F —, author of 1920 novel Queen Lucia |
| 50% | CRICHTON | 8 | Author Michael, who created TV's E.R. |
| 50% | ADVICEGURUS | 11 | Life coaches and self-help authors, e.g. |
| 50% | VOGT | 4 | Science fiction author A. E. van ___ |
| 49% | FIFTY | 5 | "___ Shades of Grey," romance novel by British author E. L. James |
| 49% | FORSTER | 7 | Author of Howard's End and Maurice, E. M. __ |
| 49% | BENSON | 6 | E F —, English author of 1920 novel Queen Lucia |
| 47% | HINTON | 6 | S E —, author of 1967 novel The Outsiders |
| 47% | HINTON | 6 | S E -, author of 1967 novel The Outsiders |
| 46% | DELAFIELD | 9 | E M —, author of 1930 novel Diary of a Provincial Lady |
| 46% | HORNUNG | 7 | E W —, author of 1899 short story collection The Amateur Cracksman |
| 46% | WARPOET | 7 | John McCrae, author of "In Flanders Fields," e.g. |
| 44% | BARRYMORE | 9 | Drew __, author of Wildflower and co-star on E.T. |
| 44% | JOHNS | 5 | Captain W E —, pilot and author; creator of adventurer Biggles |
| 43% | FORSTER | 7 | E M —, author of novels Howards End and A Room with a View |
| 42% | BRADDON | 7 | M E —, author of novels Aurora Floyd and Lady Audley's Secret |
| 41% | THESHIPPING | 11 | & 22D E Annie Proulx novel that won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 40% | ADAIR | 5 | Gilbert ___, author of "A Void," a 290-page novel without the letter E |
| 40% | LAWRENCE | 8 | T E —, British military officer who authored 1926 volume Seven Pillars of Wisdom |
| 37% | BATES | 5 | H E —, author of novels Love for Lydia and Fair Stood the Wind for France |
| 36% | JKROWLING | 9 | Author who received an O.B.E. in 2001 |
| 36% | MASON | 5 | A E W —, author of the novels The Prisoner in the Opal and The Four Feathers |