| 100% | NICK | 4 | English writer Hornby whose five novels have been adapted to movies including "Fever Pitch" |
| 68% | JANE | 4 | English writer Austen whose eight novels have been adapted to movies several times including "Pride & Prejudice" |
| 61% | SPARKS | 6 | American writer Nicholas whose eleven novels have been adapted to movies including "A Walk to Remember" |
| 36% | HENRY | 5 | American writer O. ___ whose works have been adapted into several movies worldwide including "The Gift of Love" |
| 29% | AGATHA | 6 | ___ Christie, English writer of detective novels whose books have sold more than 2 billion copies |
| 27% | CHEYNEY | 7 | Peter —, British crime writer whose Lemmy Caution novels include This Man is Dangerous and Poison Ivy |
| 24% | KING | 4 | American writer Stephen whose works have inspired over fifty movies including "The Shawshank Redemption" |
| 24% | SHAKESPEARE | 11 | William ___, English writer whose books have sold more than 2 billion copies |
| 23% | ELKS | 4 | Order whose members have included five U.S. presidents |
| 23% | ELI | 3 | Director Roth whose first movie was 2003's "Cabin Fever" |
| 23% | DIANAGABALDON | 13 | Writer whose novels are the basis of the "Outlander" TV series (2 wds.) |
| 23% | KATHYREICHS | 11 | Writer whose novels are the basis of the "Bones" TV series (2 wds.) |
| 22% | TESSGERRITSEN | 13 | Writer whose novels are the basis of the "Rizzoli & Isles" TV series (2 wds.) |
| 22% | LESMISERABLES | 13 | Victor Hugo's novel which was also adapted into a movie starring Anne Hathaway and has a sentence with 823 words: 2 wds. |
| 22% | LOVELACE | 8 | Richard —, 17th-century English poet whose works include To Althea, from Prison |
| 22% | NICHOLASSPARKS | 14 | 46-Across writer who has had 11 of his novels adapted to film (including 19-Across) (2 wds.) |
| 22% | USCG | 4 | Org. whose academy's motto in English is "The sea yields to knowledge" |
| 21% | SEANANMCGUIRE | 13 | Writer whose "Middlegame" was a finalist for the 2020 Hugo Award for Best Novel (2 wds.) |
| 21% | EDITHWHARTON | 12 | American writer whose novel "The Age of Innocence" was published in 1920 (2 wds.) |
| 21% | ASPS | 4 | The snakes in the movie line "Snakes. Why'd it have to be snakes?" |
| 21% | DECKTHEHALLS | 12 | Song whose refrain has been prefixed to nine answers in this puzzle |
| 21% | HILARYMANTEL | 12 | English writer who has won two Man Booker Prizes for her novels "Wolf Hall" and "Bring Up The Bodies": 2 wds. |
| 21% | EDITORS | 7 | English rock band whose no 1 albums include 2007’s An End Has a Start |
| 21% | PIXAR | 5 | Company whose movies, not counting sequels, are all included in this puzzle [Circled Squares: 2009] |
| 21% | AGATHACHRISTIE | 14 | British writer whose novel "The Mysterious Affair at Styles" was published in 1920 (2 wds.) |
| 21% | BODIDDLEY | 9 | US musician born Ellas Otha Bates whose albums include 1960's Have Guitar Will Travel |
| 21% | SEWELL | 6 | English author Anna ___ whose only novel "Black Beauty" is a bestseller |
| 21% | ASP | 3 | Viper whose bite is said to have killed Cleopatra |
| 21% | MCNEILE | 7 | H C —, author whose novels, including Mufti and Ronald Standish, were published under the name Sapper |