| 100% | LESSING | 7 | Doris, prize-winning writer of The Golden Notebook |
| 67% | DORISLESSING | 12 | British author of "The Golden Notebook" who won the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature: 2 wds. |
| 51% | JHUMPALAHIRI | 12 | Short-story writer whose "Interpreter of Maladies" won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2 wds.) |
| 50% | RUSHDIE | 7 | Indian-born writer of the 1981 Booker Prize |
| 49% | AARONSORKIN | 11 | "The Trial of the Chicago 7" writer who won the 2020 Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay - Motion Picture (2 wds.) |
| 46% | CURIE | 5 | Surname of the first woman to win a Nobel prize |
| 46% | OLGA | 4 | Nobel Prize-winning writer Tokarczuk who wrote "The Books of Jacob" |
| 45% | MARIE | 5 | First name of the first woman to win a Nobel Prize |
| 45% | LESSING | 7 | Doris who won the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 45% | OLDS | 4 | Writer Sharon who won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry |
| 45% | ELIOT | 5 | Writer of the 1950 Tony-winning play "The Cocktail Party" |
| 44% | GRENVILLE | 9 | Kate —, 2006 winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for novel The Secret River |
| 44% | REMAINS | 7 | "The ___ of the Day" (Kazuo Ishiguro novel that won the Booker Prize) |
| 44% | DAYTIMEMEAWARDS | 15 | Prizes won by Acadia National Park for the first sight of sunrise in the U.S.? |
| 44% | TONI | 4 | First name of the first Black woman to win a Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 43% | MUNRO | 5 | Canadian writer Alice who won the Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 43% | OURS | 4 | "One of ___" (Willa Cather novel that won the Pulitzer Prize) |
| 43% | EDITHWHARTON | 12 | 13-Across and 25-Across writer who was the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize in Literature, for her 1920 novel "The Age of Innocence" (2 wds.) |
| 43% | CROSS | 5 | International Committee of the Red ___, humanitarian institution which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1963 |
| 43% | GOLDMEDAL | 9 | Olympic prize won by Pat Summitt as coach of the 1984 US team: 2 wds. |
| 43% | ALICE | 5 | Canadian writer Munro who won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 43% | MANN | 4 | German writer Thomas who won the 1929 Nobel Prize for Literature |
| 43% | NADINE | 6 | ___ Gordimer, South African writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 43% | MANN | 4 | German writer Thomas who won the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 43% | RENT | 4 | One of 10 musicals to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama |
| 43% | RENT | 4 | Seventh of 10 musicals to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama |
| 42% | BOHR | 4 | Surname of the father and son who won Nobel Prizes for Physics in 1922 and 1975 |
| 42% | LENIN | 5 | Writer of the "April Theses" |
| 42% | TACITUS | 7 | Writer of the ethnography "Germania" |
| 42% | QUILLPEN | 8 | Writer of the Magna Carta |