| 100% | DHLAWRENCE | 10 | Author whose book prompted the 1960 court case R. v Penguin Books Ltd. |
| 35% | LAING | 5 | R D —, Scottish psychiatrist whose books include 1960’s The Divided Self |
| 32% | GAYMARRIAGE | 11 | Subject of the Supreme Court case Obergefell v. Hodges |
| 30% | LAING | 5 | R D —, Scottish psychiatrist whose books include The Divided Self |
| 30% | MARRIAGE | 8 | Subject of the Supreme Court cases Loving v. Virginia and Obergefell v. Hodges |
| 30% | ROTH | 4 | Author Veronica who wrote the "Divergent" books |
| 29% | FREESPEECH | 10 | Subject of the Supreme Court cases Schenck v. United States and Tinker v. Des Moines |
| 29% | OBAMACARE | 9 | Subject of the 2020 Supreme Court case California v. Texas, colloquially |
| 29% | STEIG | 5 | William ___, author whose eponymous book the movie "Shrek" is based on |
| 29% | BAUM | 4 | Author of the Oz books |
| 29% | WOODYALLEN | 10 | Author whose memoir the Hachette Book Group dropped this month |
| 28% | BAUM | 4 | Author of the original Oz books |
| 28% | ACLU | 4 | Org. supporting the Lovings in the 1967 Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia |
| 28% | STINE | 5 | R.L. ___ (author of the "Goosebumps" books) |
| 28% | KIERA | 5 | US author Cass, wrote The Selection books |
| 28% | ELJAMES | 7 | Author of the Fifty Shades trilogy of books |
| 28% | NEILGAIMAN | 10 | Author whose YA novel "The Graveyard Book" won the Newbery Medal in 2009: 2 wds. |
| 27% | JESMYNWARD | 10 | Author whose novels "Salvage the Bones" and "Sing, Unburied, Sing" each won a National Book Award: 2 wds. |
| 27% | JAYASHER | 8 | Author whose book "Thirteen Reasons Why" was adapted into a Netflix show of the same name: 2 wds. |
| 27% | CORNWELL | 8 | Patricia, author of the Kay Scarpetta books |
| 27% | ALISMITH | 8 | Author whose novel “Summer” is the final book in her Seasonal Quartet (August, 2020) |
| 27% | CORNWELL | 8 | Bernard __, author of the Sharpe series of books |
| 27% | ZADIESMITH | 10 | Author of “The Fraud,” whose plot involves the celebrated nineteenth-century Tichborne case (September, 2023) |
| 27% | KWAMEALEXANDER | 14 | Author whose children's book "The Crossover" won the Newbery Medal in 2015: 2 wds. |
| 27% | AQUA | 4 | Band whose song “Barbie Girl” led to the case Mattel v. MCA Records |
| 26% | ERNESTHEMINGWAY | 15 | Author of the book whose title is circled in the grid |
| 26% | PERES | 5 | Israeli president who was the author of 11 books |
| 26% | MARTIN | 6 | George RR, author of the Game of Thrones books |
| 26% | BRIGGS | 6 | Raymond —, author and illustrator whose books include When the Wind Blows and The Snowman |
| 26% | ECHO | 4 | "In the Courts of the Conqueror" author Walter R. ___-Hawk |