| 100% | EGAN | 4 | Jennifer who wrote “A Visit from the Goon Squad” and its follow-up, “The Candy House” (April, 2022) |
| 63% | EGAN | 4 | Jennifer who wrote A Visit from the Goon Squad |
| 59% | EGAN | 4 | Jennifer who wrote "A Visit From the Goon Squad" |
| 50% | EGAN | 4 | Jennifer who wrote the Pulitzer-winning "A Visit From the Goon Squad" |
| 50% | EGAN | 4 | Jennifer who wrote the Pulitzer-winning novel “A Visit from the Goon Squad” |
| 43% | EGAN | 4 | "A Visit From the Goon Squad" novelist Jennifer |
| 43% | EGAN | 4 | "A Visit from the Goon Squad" author Jennifer |
| 43% | EGAN | 4 | "A Visit from the Goon Squad" writer Jennifer |
| 43% | EGAN | 4 | "A Visit from the Goon Squad" author Jennifer ___ |
| 43% | EGAN | 4 | "A Visit From the Goon Squad" Pulitzer winner Jennifer |
| 43% | EGAN | 4 | Jennifer ___, Pulitzer-winning author of "A Visit From the Goon Squad" |
| 43% | EGAN | 4 | "A Visit from the Goon Squad" Pulitzer-winning novelist Jennifer |
| 42% | EGAN | 4 | Jennifer ___, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning "A Visit from the Goon Squad" |
| 38% | EGAN | 4 | "A Visit From the Goon Squad" novelist |
| 38% | EGAN | 4 | "A Visit From the Goon Squad" author |
| 37% | GOON | 4 | Jennifer Egan's "A Visit From the __ Squad" |
| 34% | GOONSQUAD | 9 | Jennifer Egan novel, A Visit from the __ |
| 32% | SANTOS | 6 | Congressman who was expelled from the House of Representatives following a months-long ethics investigation (December, 2023) |
| 31% | NOD | 3 | "And giving a ___, up the chimney he rose" ("A Visit From St. Nicholas" excerpt) |
| 31% | OCEAN | 5 | Vuong who wrote the elegiac poetry collection “Time Is a Mother” (April, 2022) |
| 30% | POE | 3 | Who wrote "It was many and many a year ago, / In a kingdom by the sea ..." |
| 30% | HENRIK | 6 | Ibsen who wrote A Doll's House and Peer Gynt |
| 30% | GOON | 4 | "A Visit From the ___ Squad" |
| 30% | NEILARMSTRONG | 13 | Who said "I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth" |
| 29% | TINA | 4 | Brown who wrote “The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor—the Truth and the Turmoil” (2022) |
| 29% | MARKDONOHUE | 11 | American F1 driver who could "set up his car and drive it to victory"; died in a crash during the 1975 Austrian Grand Prix : 2 wds. |
| 29% | SAND | 4 | It might be picked up from a trip to the beach |
| 29% | GRACEPALEY | 10 | Author and activist who wrote, “It is the poet’s responsibility to learn the truth from the powerless” |
| 29% | QUILL | 5 | Writing tool made from a bird's feather, that preceded the pencil and pen |
| 29% | GILLIANFLYNN | 12 | Author who wrote the novels from which 17-Across and 29-/31-Across were adapted: 2 wds. |