| 100% | NEWSPEAK | 8 | Language of fictional superstate Oceania in 1949 George Orwell novel Nineteen Eighty-Four |
| 54% | WINSTONSMITH | 12 | Protagonist of 1949 George Orwell novel Nineteen Eighty-Four |
| 34% | OCEANIA | 7 | Fictional superstate of "Nineteen Eighty-Four" |
| 33% | EURASIA | 7 | Superstate in Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four" |
| 28% | NINETEEN | 8 | George Orwell's cautionary tale, __ eighty four |
| 28% | NEWSPEAK | 8 | Language of propaganda in Orwell's 1984 |
| 28% | GEORGEORWELL | 12 | Author of the novels Nineteen Eighty-Four and Coming Up for Air |
| 27% | EASTASIA | 8 | One side of a perpetual war in Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four" |
| 26% | ORWELL | 6 | Nineteen Eighty-Four writer George |
| 26% | BABBITT | 7 | Novel set in the fictional town of Zenith |
| 25% | SCOTTTUROW | 10 | Author of novels set in the fictional Kindle County |
| 25% | INGSOC | 6 | Ideology of Oceania in Orwell's 1984 |
| 24% | GISSING | 7 | George —, author of novels The Nether World and Workers in the Dawn |
| 24% | FOUR | 4 | "Nineteen Eighty-___," novel by George Orwell that seemingly predicted facial recognition technology |
| 24% | VERNE | 5 | Jules —, French author of 1873 novel Around the World in Eighty Days |
| 24% | JULES | 5 | & 4D French author of 1873 novel Around the World in Eighty Days |
| 23% | NINETEEN | 8 | "___ Eighty-Four" (George Orwell novel) |
| 23% | ANIMAL | 6 | — Farm, 1945 George Orwell novel |
| 23% | DOCSAVAGE | 9 | Fictional character created by Lester Dent who first appeared in 1933 pulp novel The Man of Bronze |
| 22% | PROSE | 5 | Language of a novel |
| 22% | MANORFARM | 9 | Napoleon's home in George Orwell's animal novel |
| 22% | NANCYDREW | 9 | Fictional girl detective who first appeared in 1930 novel The Secret of the Old Clock by Carolyn Keene |
| 22% | THEBURGESSBOYS | 14 | Elizabeth Strout novel set in the fictional town of Shirley Falls about two brothers (3 wds.) |
| 22% | MASON | 5 | A E W —, author of the novels The Prisoner in the Opal and The Four Feathers |
| 22% | NORSK | 5 | Language of Oslo, in Oslo |
| 22% | OBRIEN | 6 | Nefarious double agent of the Thought Police, in Nineteen Eighty-Four |
| 22% | GEORGEORWELL | 12 | Author of the classic dystopian novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four": 2 wds. |
| 22% | THOMASLYNLEY | 12 | Fictional Scotland Yard inspector featured in 20 novels by Elizabeth George, including 16-Across and 49-Across (2 wds.) |
| 22% | MYRONBOLITAR | 12 | Fictional basketball player-turned-sports agent who solves mysteries in a series of novels by 35-Across (2 wds.) |