| 100% | ROALD | 5 | British novelist ___ Dahl |
| 64% | BURGESS | 7 | British novelist Anthony |
| 64% | FAY | 3 | British novelist Weldon |
| 64% | ANITA | 5 | British novelist Brookner |
| 63% | WAUGH | 5 | British novelist brothers' surname |
| 63% | BYATT | 5 | British novelist A.S. |
| 61% | ROALDDAHL | 9 | British novelist, creator of Gremlins |
| 61% | ASBYATT | 7 | British novelist with a damehood |
| 60% | IRIS | 4 | British novelist Murdoch, or a flower |
| 57% | BRONTE | 6 | Last name of British novelist sisters |
| 56% | IRIS | 4 | British-Irish novelist ___ Murdoch |
| 56% | LEN | 3 | British spy novelist Deighton |
| 56% | COE | 3 | British satirical novelist Jonathan |
| 55% | HORNBY | 6 | Nick __, British novelist of About a Boy |
| 54% | LENDEIGHTON | 11 | British novelist who wrote "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Spy" (2 wds.) |
| 54% | ANN | 3 | British novelist Cleeves who writes the "Vera Stanhope" crime series |
| 53% | ROALD | 5 | Novelist Dahl who wrote "Matilda" and "James and the Giant Peach" |
| 53% | IANFLEMING | 10 | British novelist who wrote "The Spy Who Loved Me" (2 wds.) |
| 51% | KEY | 3 | "The Turn of the ___" (thriller by British novelist Ruth Ware) |
| 49% | JOHNLECARRE | 11 | British novelist who wrote "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" (3 wds.) |
| 49% | AGATHACHRISTIE | 14 | British novelist who created the fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple (2 wds.) |
| 47% | BRIANJACQUES | 12 | British novelist who wrote the "Redwall" and "Castaways of the Flying Dutchman" series (2 wds.) |
| 47% | GKCHESTERTON | 12 | British novelist who wrote the stories that inspired the "Father Brown" TV series (3 wds.) |
| 45% | CHARLES | 7 | With 41-Across, British novelist whose 200th birthday was celebrated on February 7, 2012 |
| 45% | ROWLING | 7 | British mega-novelist |
| 44% | LEECHILD | 8 | Pen name of the British novelist who writes the Jack Reacher novel series (2 wds.) |
| 43% | RUTHWARE | 8 | British novelist who wrote the bestsellers "The Woman in Cabin 10," 15-Across, and 29-Across (2 wds.) |
| 42% | MARTINAMIS | 10 | *British novelist who wrote "London Fields" |
| 40% | KAZUOISHIGURO | 13 | British novelist who wrote 19-Across and 31-Across and was awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature (2 wds.) |
| 39% | CPSNOW | 6 | British scientist/novelist with a wintry name |