| 100% | OBREE | 5 | Graeme —, cyclist; author of 2003 autobiography Flying Scotsman |
| 62% | OBREE | 5 | Graeme —, cyclist whose 2003 autobiography is entitled Flying Scotsman |
| 37% | ALI | 3 | Monica —, author of 2003 novel Brick Lane |
| 34% | KESEY | 5 | Author of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" |
| 34% | ERICA | 5 | Ms. Jong, author of Fear of Flying |
| 33% | JONG | 4 | "Fear of Flying" author |
| 33% | JONG | 4 | “Fear of Flying” author |
| 33% | KENKESEY | 8 | Author of the novel One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest |
| 33% | ERICA | 5 | "Fear of Flying" author Jong |
| 33% | JONG | 4 | "Fear of Flying" author Erica |
| 33% | ERICA | 5 | “Fear of Flying” author Jong |
| 33% | ERICA | 5 | Fear of Flying author Jong |
| 33% | JONG | 4 | “Fear of Flying” author Erica |
| 32% | GOLDING | 7 | "Lord of the Flies" author |
| 32% | WILLIAMGOLDING | 14 | ''Lord of the Flies'' author |
| 32% | CRUZ | 4 | Nilo —, author of 2003 Pulitzer Prize for drama-winning stage play Anna in the Tropics |
| 32% | FRANKMUIR | 9 | Author of 1993 novel The Walpole Orange and 1997 autobiography A Kentish Lad |
| 32% | JONG | 4 | Erica —, author of the novels Fear of Flying and Inventing Memory |
| 32% | STEIN | 5 | Gertrude —, author of 1933 book The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas |
| 31% | STEIN | 5 | "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas" author |
| 31% | KESEY | 5 | Ken —, author of 1962 novel One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| 31% | ASTOLDTO | 8 | Part of many an autobiography's author credit |
| 31% | BEN | 3 | "The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist" author Barres |
| 31% | TORISPELLING | 12 | Author of a bestselling 2008 autobiography, and a hint to some pictographs in this puzzle |
| 30% | ERICA | 5 | & 22D Author of novels Fear of Flying, Sappho's Leap and Inventing Memory |
| 30% | WINN | 4 | Godfrey —, author of volumes of autobiography The Positive Hour and The Infirm Glory |
| 30% | WILLIAM | 7 | With 35-Across, author of the classic dystopian novel "Lord of the Flies" |