| 100% | STARK | 5 | Freya —, traveller; author of 1951 autobiographical work Beyond Euphrates |
| 78% | STARK | 5 | Freya —, traveller who authored 1951 autobiographical work Beyond Euphrates |
| 36% | DURRELL | 7 | Gerald —, author of 1956 autobiographical work My Family and Other Animals |
| 36% | DEQUINCEY | 9 | Thomas —, author of 1821 autobiographical work Confessions of an English Opium Eater |
| 31% | THOMASMORE | 10 | Author of 1516 literary work Utopia |
| 30% | SALINGER | 8 | J D —, author of 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye |
| 30% | NOVEL | 5 | Author's work of fiction |
| 30% | NASHE | 5 | Thomas —, author of 1594 novel The Unfortunate Traveller |
| 29% | ENGELS | 6 | Author of "The Condition of the Working Class in England," 1845 |
| 29% | UTTLEY | 6 | Alison —, author of 1939 novel A Traveller in Time |
| 29% | JOHNGAY | 7 | Author of 1728 stage work The Beggar's Opera |
| 29% | OMNIBUS | 7 | Collection of author's works |
| 28% | WEISS | 5 | Peter —, author of stage works The Investigation and Marat/Sade |
| 28% | LENNON | 6 | John —, musician; author of 1965 volume A Spaniard in the Works |
| 28% | DEFOE | 5 | Author who did part of his work on Friday |
| 28% | DEFOE | 5 | Author who did part of his work on Friday? |
| 28% | DAVEEGGERS | 10 | "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" author |
| 27% | DOYLE | 5 | Arthur Conan —, author of novels Beyond the City and The White Company |
| 27% | SHUTE | 5 | Nevil —, author of novels On the Beach and Beyond the Black Stump |
| 27% | WOLFE | 5 | Author of the 1968 work named in the circled letters (reading clockwise) |
| 27% | LEACH | 5 | Bernard —, Hong Kong-born author of 1940 work A Potter's Book |
| 27% | EGGERS | 6 | “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius” author Dave |
| 27% | DAVE | 4 | "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" author Eggers |
| 27% | ROYALTIES | 9 | Paid to authors for sales of their work |
| 27% | DOYLE | 5 | Arthur Conan —, author of the novels Beyond the City and The White Company |
| 27% | SHUTE | 5 | Nevil —, author of the novels On the Beach and Beyond the Black Stump |
| 27% | JANEITES | 8 | Devotees of the life and works of author Austen |
| 27% | EUCLID | 6 | Greek mathematician of Alexandria who authored the work Elements |
| 26% | CARLVON | 7 | & 6D Prussian general; author of the unfinished On War, a work on military strategy |