| 100% | ARON | 4 | Cal's twin, in a Steinbeck novel |
| 65% | JOAD | 4 | Ma or Pa in a Steinbeck novel |
| 65% | TORTILLAFLAT | 12 | Titular California district in a Steinbeck novel |
| 53% | ARON | 4 | Cal's twin in "East of Eden" |
| 51% | FLATTORTILLA | 12 | John Steinbeck novel about an enchilada wrap eaten in a British apartment? |
| 49% | ARON | 4 | Cal's twin brother in "East of Eden" |
| 49% | LOTTE | 5 | Werther's love in a Goethe novel |
| 49% | THESEA | 6 | Santiago's milieu in a Hemingway novel |
| 49% | PAUPER | 6 | Prince's counterpart in a Twain novel |
| 49% | HORIZON | 7 | It's lost in a hilton novel |
| 48% | SAID | 4 | Common word in a novel's dialogue |
| 48% | BYATT | 5 | A S —, author of the novels Still Life and The Virgin in the Garden |
| 47% | LANDOFOZ | 8 | Magical country introduced in a 1900 children's novel |
| 47% | WEB | 3 | Charlotte's creation in a children's novel |
| 47% | HUR | 3 | Judah's house in a Lew Wallace novel |
| 47% | KARENINA | 8 | Vronsky’s lover, in a nineteenth-century novel |
| 47% | KARENINA | 8 | Oblonsky's sister, in a classic novel |
| 47% | EAST | 4 | Direction in a Steinbeck title |
| 47% | EDEN | 4 | Site in a Steinbeck title |
| 47% | EDEN | 4 | Utopia in a Steinbeck title |
| 47% | MICE | 4 | Word in a Steinbeck title |
| 46% | FLICKA | 6 | Title horse in a Mary O'Hara children's novel |
| 46% | CANNERY | 7 | First word of a Steinbeck novel |
| 46% | EDEN | 4 | Place name in a Steinbeck title |
| 46% | EDEN | 4 | Biblical locale in a Steinbeck title |
| 46% | ESAU | 4 | Hairy twin in a Bible story |
| 46% | ANEW | 4 | In a novel way |
| 45% | TESS | 4 | Joan Durbeyfield’s daughter, in a Thomas Hardy novel |
| 45% | PEARL | 5 | Symbol of greed in a Steinbeck novella |
| 45% | DEVITO | 6 | Schwarzenegger is his twin in a movie |