| 100% | SWIFT | 5 | Jonathan —, author of A Tale of a Tub and A Modest Proposal |
| 80% | SWIFT | 5 | Jonathan —, author of satires A Tale of a Tub and A Modest Proposal |
| 44% | JONATHANSWIFT | 13 | Author of "A Modest Proposal" |
| 41% | AMOSOZ | 6 | "A Tale of Love and Darkness" author, 2003 |
| 41% | DONLEAVY | 8 | J P —, author of novels A Fairy Tale of New York and The Onion Eaters |
| 40% | AMOSOZ | 6 | Israeli author who wrote "A Tale of Love and Darkness" |
| 40% | EMFORSTER | 9 | Author of Howards End and A Room With A View |
| 39% | TINDERBOX | 9 | Andersen's tale of a firestarter and three dogs |
| 39% | OZEKI | 5 | Ruth ___, author of "A Tale for the Time Being" and "The Book of Form and Emptiness" |
| 39% | JEREMIAH | 8 | Hebrew prophet and author of a Book of the Bible |
| 38% | IDIOT | 5 | Teller of a tale "full of sound and fury," per Macbeth |
| 38% | MOUSE | 5 | Tom and Jerry, a tale of a cat chasing this animal |
| 38% | FRANZEN | 7 | Jonathan __; author of Freedom and The Corrections |
| 38% | AMBLER | 6 | Eric —, author of novels Epitaph for a Spy and Judgment on Deltchev |
| 38% | ATALE | 5 | Jonathan Swift's "___ of a Tub" |
| 38% | TORISPELLING | 12 | Author of a bestselling 2008 autobiography, and a hint to some pictographs in this puzzle |
| 37% | GASH | 4 | Jonathan —, author of the novels Every Last Cent and The Ten Word Game |
| 37% | COE | 3 | Jonathan —, author of novels The Rotters' Club and The Closed Circle |
| 37% | SWIFTWALKER | 11 | Jonathan and Alice's account of a pedestrian in a hurry? |
| 37% | IDIOT | 5 | Teller of a tale “full of sound and fury,” per Macbeth |
| 37% | DAVEPELZER | 10 | Author of memoirs A Child Called It and The Lost Boy |
| 37% | COE | 3 | Jonathan —, author of novels Number 11 and Expo 58 |
| 37% | PHOENIX | 7 | The __ and the Carpet, tale of a talking bird |
| 37% | SMILEY | 6 | Jane —, author of novels Moo and A Thousand Acres |
| 37% | KENNEDY | 7 | A L —, author of story collections All the Rage and What Becomes |
| 37% | HORNBY | 6 | Nick, author of Fever Pitch and A Long Way Down |
| 36% | FRANKMUIR | 9 | Author of 1993 novel The Walpole Orange and 1997 autobiography A Kentish Lad |
| 36% | PERRAULT | 8 | Charles —, French author of fairy tales Cinderella and The Sleeping Beauty |
| 36% | BELLHOOKS | 9 | Author of “Ain’t I a Woman?: Black Women and Feminism” |
| 36% | ITALOSVEVO | 10 | Author of novels A Life and Zeno's Conscience |