| 100% | BRADBURY | 8 | Author of "Something Wicked This Way Comes" |
| 80% | RAY | 3 | "Something Wicked This Way Comes" author Bradbury |
| 69% | MACBETH | 7 | Source of the line "Something wicked this way comes" |
| 63% | BROWN | 5 | Derren ___, English mentalist behind the stage show "Something Wicked This Way Comes" |
| 53% | WICKED | 6 | Something __ This Way Comes, by Bradbury |
| 48% | WAY | 3 | "Something Wicked This ___ Comes" (Ray Bradbury novel) |
| 45% | WICKED | 6 | "Something ___ This Way Comes," '80s horror film produced by Walt Disney Productions |
| 42% | PDJAMES | 7 | Author of Death Comes to Pemberley |
| 42% | JEFFERSON | 9 | Author of this puzzle's quote |
| 41% | OMEN | 4 | Sign of something to come |
| 40% | METHOD | 6 | Way of doing something |
| 40% | PROCEDURE | 9 | Way of doing something |
| 40% | JOSEPHHELLER | 12 | Author of the novels Something Happened and God Knows |
| 40% | MEGROSOFF | 9 | Author of the 2022 YA novel, Friends Like These |
| 39% | REGARD | 6 | Think of something in a specific way |
| 39% | PERSPECTIVE | 11 | Way of looking at something |
| 39% | DOE | 3 | Jane ___ (unknown, like the author of this puzzle) |
| 39% | PORTENT | 7 | An omen, a sign of something to come |
| 39% | MANNER | 6 | Way of acting, doing something, speaking |
| 38% | ERNESTHEMINGWAY | 15 | Author of the concise yet evocative story told in this puzzle |
| 38% | FREYANORTH | 10 | Author of novels The Turning Point and The Way Back Home |
| 38% | NICKHORNBY | 10 | Author of novels About A Boy and A Long Way Down |
| 38% | STOREY | 6 | David —, author of novels Radcliffe and This Sporting Life |
| 38% | PHILLIPS | 8 | Busy __, author of This Will Only Hurt A Little |
| 38% | LOCKWOOD | 8 | Patricia, author of No One Is Talking About This |
| 38% | OMEN | 4 | Sign of something to come, like a broken mirror |
| 38% | ORWELLIAN | 9 | Author adjective; like something out of 1984 |
| 38% | METHOD | 6 | Way of doing something, steps to follow |
| 38% | INHERIT | 7 | Come into by way of a will |