| 100% | VAMPIRE | 7 | Interview with the __, novel by Anne Rice |
| 60% | INTERVIEW | 9 | "___ with the Vampire," 1976 gothic horror novel by Anne Rice that was adapted into a film starring Brad Pitt |
| 57% | VAMPIRE | 7 | Anne Rice is the author of Interview with the __ |
| 51% | LOVESTORY | 9 | Novel by Erich Segal starts with the death of Jenny |
| 50% | EROTICA | 7 | Works by Anne Rice under the pen name of A. N. Roquelaure, e.g. |
| 50% | ANNE | 4 | Rice whose debut novel was "Interview With the Vampire" |
| 50% | TARR | 4 | 1918 novel by Wyndham Lewis with the character Otto Kreisler |
| 50% | TYLER | 5 | Anne with the Pulitzer-winning novel "Breathing Lessons" |
| 50% | ACCIDENTAL | 10 | The —, 1985 novel by Anne Tyler |
| 49% | ANNE | 4 | “Interview with the Vampire” author Rice |
| 48% | GIDGET | 6 | 1957 novel by Frederick Kohner subtitled The Little Girl with Big Ideas |
| 48% | RICE | 4 | "Interview With the Vampire" author Anne |
| 48% | RICE | 4 | "Interview with the Vampire" novelist Anne |
| 48% | ANNE | 4 | "Interview With the Vampire" author Rice |
| 48% | ANNE | 4 | "Interview with the Vampire" novelist Rice |
| 48% | RICE | 4 | Anne who adapted her novel "Interview with the Vampire" for the screen |
| 48% | INFERNO | 7 | 2013 novel by Dan Brown, with prominent references to the medieval poet Dante |
| 47% | EVITA | 5 | Musical with the song "Another Suitcase in Another Hall" with lyrics by Tim Rice |
| 46% | ARM | 3 | "The Man with the Golden ___" (National Book Award-winning novel by Nelson Algren) |
| 46% | BASKETCASE | 10 | Novel by 44-Across that highlights a song by the same name cowritten with Warren Zevon: 2 wds. |
| 45% | MAUS | 4 | Graphic novel by Art Spiegelman that depicts an interview with his father who is a Holocaust survivor |
| 45% | AMATEUR | 7 | & 13D The —, 2004 novel by Anne Tyler |
| 45% | TENANTOF | 8 | & 22A The —, 1848 novel by Anne Bronte |
| 45% | GOLDFINCH | 9 | Pulitzer-winning novel by Donna Tartt, with "the" |
| 45% | CASCA | 5 | Roman soldier in a series of novels by Barry Sadler beginning with 1979's The Eternal Mercenary |
| 44% | CHANGE | 6 | Autobiographical novel by Édouard Louis that begins with the intention “to fix the past in writing” (March, 2024) |
| 44% | TIGEREYES | 9 | Young adult novel by 38-Across about a girl coping with the death of her father (2 wds.) |
| 44% | AGNESGREY | 9 | Novel by Anne Bronte about a governess |