| 100% | POE | 3 | Edgar Allan —, US short-story writer who died in 1849 |
| 100% | POE | 3 | Edgar Allan —, US short story writer who died in 1849 |
| 45% | ALICE | 5 | With 7-Across, short story writer who won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 42% | SELMALAGERLOF | 13 | Swedish novelist and short story writer who was the first woman honored with the Nobel Prize in Literature (2 wds.) |
| 42% | SINCLAIRLEWIS | 13 | Minnesota novelist and short story writer who was the first American honored with the Nobel Prize in Literature (2 wds.) |
| 42% | WILLIAMGIBSON | 13 | Writer who coined the word "cyberspace" in his short story "Burning Chrome" (2 wds.) |
| 41% | POE | 3 | Writer of eerie short stories, Edgar Allan ___ |
| 41% | THEGOLDBUG | 10 | Short story by Edgar Allan Poe first published in 1843 whose central character is William Legrand |
| 39% | THEPITANDTHE | 12 | & 1D 1842 short story by Edgar Allan Poe adapted for the cinema by Richard Matheson in 1961 |
| 39% | POE | 3 | Short-story writer: Edgar Allan ___ |
| 39% | POE | 3 | Edgar Allan, US writer |
| 38% | TYNAN | 5 | Kenneth —, English theatre critic and writer who died in 1980 |
| 38% | DEMOSTHENES | 11 | Athenian orator and prose writer who died in 322 BC |
| 37% | SOBSISTER | 9 | Writer who specializes in sentimental stories |
| 36% | POE | 3 | Early short story author Edgar Allan ___ |
| 36% | FALL | 4 | "The ___ of the House of Usher," gothic short story by Edgar Allan Poe which is about two ailing siblings living in a strange mansion |
| 36% | ELEONORA | 8 | Autobiographical short story by Edgar Allan Poe |
| 35% | THEPREMATURE | 12 | & 15A 1844 short story by Edgar Allan Poe |
| 35% | POE | 3 | Edgar Allan ___, writer who's considered the inventor of detective fiction |
| 33% | RENO | 4 | Former US Attorney General Janet who died in November |
| 33% | HAMILTON | 8 | US Founding Father who died in 1804; 2015 musical |
| 33% | RUE | 3 | "The Murders in the ___ Morgue," short story by Edgar Allan Poe |
| 33% | THIEN | 5 | Madeleine ___, Canadian short story writer and novelist known for her novel "Do Not Say We Have Nothing" |
| 33% | HEMINGWAY | 9 | US writer who won a Nobel Prize in lit in 1954 |
| 32% | WESLEY | 6 | Charles —, English Methodist preacher and hymn-writer who died in 1788 |
| 32% | AUTH | 4 | Short story writer? |
| 32% | OBITS | 5 | Horror short story by Stephen King that was nominated for an Edgar Award in 2016 |