| 100% | ROTHFUSS | 8 | Author of The Name of the Wind, Patrick __ |
| 67% | UMBERTOECO | 10 | Author of "The Name of the Rose" |
| 65% | ECO | 3 | Umberto ___, author of "The Name of the Rose" |
| 64% | ECO | 3 | Umberto ___, Italian author of "The Name of the Rose" |
| 63% | ECO | 3 | Author Umberto of "The Name of the Rose" |
| 63% | ECO | 3 | Author Umberto ___ of "The Name of the Rose" |
| 63% | ECO | 3 | The Name of the Rose author |
| 62% | ECO | 3 | The Name of the Rose author Umberto |
| 60% | ECO | 3 | "The Name of the Rose" author |
| 60% | ECO | 3 | ''The Name of the Rose'' author |
| 60% | ECO | 3 | “The Name of the Rose” author |
| 60% | UMBERTOECO | 10 | "The Name of the Rose" author |
| 59% | ECO | 3 | "The Name of the Rose" author Umberto |
| 59% | POE | 3 | Author who inspired the name of the NFL's Baltimore Ravens |
| 59% | ECO | 3 | Author Umberto who wrote "The Name of the Rose" |
| 59% | ECO | 3 | Umberto ___, "The Name of the Rose" author |
| 59% | ECO | 3 | Umberto ___ ("The Name of the Rose" author) |
| 57% | UMBERTO | 7 | ___ Eco (Author of "The Name of the Rose") |
| 56% | UMBERTOECO | 10 | Author of the novels The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum |
| 55% | BOBDYLAN | 8 | Famous US musician author of "Blowin' in the Wind" |
| 55% | STEARNS | 7 | Middle name of the author of "The Waste Land" |
| 55% | GEORGEELIOT | 11 | Pen name of the female author of "Silas Marner" |
| 55% | ELLISBELL | 9 | Pen name of the female author of "Wuthering Heights" |
| 55% | RAND | 4 | Ayn ___ (pen name of the author of "Atlas Shrugged") |
| 55% | HONORE | 6 | First name of the author of “La Comédie Humaine” |
| 55% | ROALD | 5 | First name of the author that Patricia Neal married |
| 55% | WOLFE | 5 | Author of the 1968 work named in the circled letters (reading clockwise) |
| 55% | ISAKDINESEN | 11 | Pen name of the female author of "Out of Africa" |
| 55% | ISAKDINESEN | 11 | Pen name of the author of 19-Across: 2 wds. |
| 55% | KARENBLIXEN | 11 | Real name of the author of 19-Across: 2 wds. |