| 100% | UTOPIA | 6 | Ideal, perfect state written about by Thomas More |
| 62% | UTOPIA | 6 | Ideal and perfect state authored by Thomas More |
| 44% | UTOPIA | 6 | Thomas More work about a perfect society |
| 38% | UTOPIA | 6 | Word coined by Thomas More in an eponymous book that's now also the word for a perfect imaginary society |
| 36% | ETHAN | 5 | Brand written about by Hawthorne |
| 36% | UTOPIAN | 7 | Describes ideal society coined by Sir Thomas More |
| 36% | LICORICEPIZZA | 13 | 2021 film about 1970s California culture written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson (2 wds.) |
| 36% | PHANTOMTHREAD | 13 | 2017 film about a fashion designer written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson (2 wds.) |
| 36% | OWEN | 4 | Meany written about by John Irving |
| 36% | OHARAS | 6 | Family written about by Margaret Mitchell |
| 35% | ARGO | 4 | Ship written about by Apollonius of Rhodes |
| 35% | OPTICS | 6 | Science of light, written about by Leonardo |
| 35% | ERIE | 4 | Canal written about by Twain and Melville |
| 35% | UTOPIA | 6 | Thomas More's perfect world |
| 35% | BOOGIE | 6 | With 31-Across, 1997 film about the adult film industry written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson |
| 34% | HAND | 4 | "The ___ of Ethelberta: A Comedy in Chapters," 1876 novel by Thomas Hardy about Ethelberta who reinvents herself to find a perfect match |
| 34% | ODYSSEY | 7 | Long epic journey such as written about by Homer |
| 32% | NEUTRALTONES | 12 | 1867 melancholic poem written by Thomas Hardy about the end of a relationship: 2 wds. |
| 31% | HUSBAND | 7 | Oscar Wilde wrote about An Ideal one in 1895 |
| 31% | ODES | 4 | Many poems written by Keats and Shelley |
| 31% | UTOPIA | 6 | 1516 socio-political satirical novel by Thomas More that is set on an island |
| 31% | UTOPIA | 6 | Imaginary and perfect society, first coined by Sir Thomas More |
| 31% | ESSAY | 5 | Many a piece of writing by Joan Didion |
| 31% | UVA | 3 | State sch. founded by Thomas Jefferson |
| 30% | BLAH | 4 | Not much to write home about |
| 30% | LATIN | 5 | What many state mottoes are written in |
| 30% | PETITION | 8 | A formal written request signed by many |
| 29% | WOLFHALL | 8 | Epic novel about Thomas Cromwell by Hilary Mantel |
| 29% | IOWA | 4 | Its state fair is much visited by politicians |
| 29% | HUSBAND | 7 | Oscar Wilde wrote a play about An Ideal one |