| 100% | TESS | 4 | Crossword editor Harper in Hallmark's "Crossword Mysteries" series |
| 85% | TESS | 4 | Crossword editor Harper played by Lacey Chabert in Hallmark's "Crossword Mysteries" series |
| 84% | TESS | 4 | Crossword editor/sleuth Harper in Hallmark's "Crossword Mysteries" series |
| 82% | TESS | 4 | Crossword editor/sleuth Harper played by Lacey Chabert in Hallmark's "Crossword Mysteries" series |
| 49% | KELLIEMARTIN | 12 | "ER" actress who stars in Hallmark's "Hailey Dean Mystery" series (2 wds.) |
| 48% | LORILOUGHLIN | 12 | "Full House" actress who stars in Hallmark's "Garage Sale Mystery" series (2 wds.) |
| 40% | ALIBI | 5 | What "A" is for, in Sue Grafton's mystery series |
| 38% | JUSTONEEVILACT | 14 | Eighteenth novel in Elizabeth George's mystery series featuring 32-Across (4 wds.) |
| 38% | PAYMENTINBLOOD | 14 | Second novel in Elizabeth George's mystery series featuring 32-Across (3 wds.) |
| 38% | SEEK | 4 | "Hide and ___" (novel in Ian Rankin's "Inspector Rebus" mystery series) |
| 37% | ENOLA | 5 | Holmes in a young adult mystery series |
| 37% | AUNT | 4 | "___ Dimity's Death" (first volume in a mystery series by Nancy Atherton) |
| 37% | THELASTWIDOW | 12 | 2019 novel in Karin Slaughter's Will Trent mystery series (3 wds.) |
| 37% | THESILENTWIFE | 13 | 2020 novel in Karin Slaughter's Will Trent mystery series (3 wds.) |
| 37% | THEKEPTWOMAN | 12 | 2016 novel in Karin Slaughter's Will Trent mystery series (3 wds.) |
| 37% | AFTERTHATNIGHT | 14 | 2023 novel in Karin Slaughter's Will Trent mystery series (3 wds.) |
| 36% | ARSENIC | 7 | "___ and Adobo" (first book in Mia P. Manansala's Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery series) |
| 36% | MENU | 4 | "Murder on the ___" (second novel in Miranda Bliss's Cooking Class Mystery series) |
| 36% | ONLY | 4 | "___ Murders in the Building" (comedic mystery series) |
| 36% | ALISONSWEENEY | 13 | "Days of Our Lives" actress who stars in Hallmark's "Murder, She Baked" series (2 wds.) |
| 36% | TWINPEAKS | 9 | Mystery series starring Kyle MacLachlan that's named for a fictional town in Washington: 2 wds. |
| 36% | CROOK | 5 | "By Book or by ___" (first novel in Eva Gates's Lighthouse Library mystery series) |
| 35% | RIS | 3 | "___ for Ricochet" (#18 in Sue Grafton's "alphabet series" of mysteries): 2 wds. |
| 35% | SEEK | 4 | "Hide and ___" (Ian Rankin novel in the Inspector Rebus mystery series) |
| 35% | GINA | 4 | Detective Harte in Carla Kovach mystery series |
| 34% | CATS | 4 | Pets in a Lilian Jackson Braun mystery series |
| 33% | CATS | 4 | Title pets in a Lilian Jackson Braun mystery series |
| 33% | BOTTOM | 6 | "The Sweetness at the ___ of the Pie" (first novel in Alan Bradley's Flavia de Luce mystery series) |
| 33% | THETRESPASSER | 13 | 2016 novel that's the sixth volume in 43-Across's Dublin Murder Squad mystery series (2 wds.) |
| 33% | INTHEWOODS | 10 | 2007 novel that's the first volume in 43-Across's Dublin Murder Squad mystery series (3 wds.) |