| 100% | DESADE | 6 | Infamous libertine and novelist of the 18th century, Marquis ___ |
| 51% | CASANOVA | 8 | Libertine of the 18th century |
| 43% | MDCCI | 5 | Start of the 18th century |
| 42% | EDO | 3 | Samurai stronghold of the 18th century |
| 42% | BACH | 4 | Mass producer of the 18th century |
| 42% | IMMANUEL | 8 | __ Kant, German philosopher of the 18th century |
| 42% | CASANOVA | 8 | Romantic Italian adventurer of the 18th century |
| 42% | HOYLE | 5 | Card game expert of the 18th century |
| 38% | EULER | 5 | Mathematician Leonard of the 18th century who first wrote f(x) to denote a function |
| 37% | CORNELIAFUNKE | 13 | Novelist of 18-Across and the "Inkheart" trilogy (2 wds.) |
| 37% | CRAFTS | 6 | Turn of the century art movement, Arts and __ |
| 37% | HUGUENOT | 8 | French Calvinist of the 16th and 17th centuries |
| 37% | LINNAEUS | 8 | Carolus —, 18th-century Swedish botanist who originated the modern scientific classification of plants and animals |
| 36% | HGWELLS | 7 | "War of the Worlds" and "The Invisible Man" novelist |
| 36% | PAVANE | 6 | Slow processional dance of the 16th and 17th centuries |
| 36% | INCA | 4 | South American empire of the 15th and 16th centuries |
| 36% | PUNIC | 5 | ___ Wars (conflicts of the second and third centuries B.C.) |
| 35% | JOAN | 4 | Actress and sister of the English novelist Jackie Collins |
| 35% | URDU | 4 | Language of the 18th-century poet Mir Taqi Mir |
| 35% | CARAVEL | 7 | Small Spanish or Portuguese sailing ship of the 15th and 16th centuries |
| 34% | MAY | 3 | First name of the pen name that novelist and poet Eleanore Marie Sarton used |
| 34% | PAT | 3 | "The Silence of the Girls" and "The Women of Troy" novelist Barker |
| 34% | JAMIE | 5 | "Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet" novelist Ford |
| 34% | FORD | 4 | "Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet" novelist Jamie |
| 34% | LIGNE | 5 | Unit of length that became obsolete in the 18th century, but is still used by French and Swiss watchmakers |
| 34% | JEN | 3 | Gish ___, novelist of "The Resisters" and "Typical American" |
| 33% | GOTH | 4 | Germanic invader of the Roman Empire from the east between the 3rd and 5th centuries |
| 33% | HUGUENOT | 8 | Member of the French Protestants of the 16th and 17th centuries influenced by John Calvin |
| 33% | ANNE | 4 | ___ Bronte, novelist and poet who wrote under the pseudonym of Acton Bell |
| 33% | TAD | 3 | "The Dragonbone Chair" and "Brothers of the Wind" novelist Williams |