| 100% | IMRE | 4 | Nobel-winning novelist ___ Kertész |
| 78% | ERNEST | 6 | Nobel-winning novelist Hemingway |
| 78% | ELIAS | 5 | Nobel-winning novelist Canetti |
| 78% | TONI | 4 | Nobel-winning novelist Morrison |
| 78% | DORIS | 5 | Nobel-winning novelist Lessing |
| 78% | MORRISON | 8 | Nobel-winning novelist toni |
| 78% | SINCLAIR | 8 | Nobel-winning novelist lewis |
| 77% | CELA | 4 | Spanish novelist who won a 1989 Nobel |
| 76% | OLGA | 4 | Novelist Tokarczuk who won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 75% | THOMAS | 6 | __ Mann, German novelist who won the Nobel Prize |
| 70% | NADINE | 6 | ___ Gordimer, South African novelist who won the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 65% | DYLAN | 5 | Nobel winning songwriter Bob ___ |
| 64% | TONIMORRISON | 12 | 18-Across and 32-Across novelist who won the 1993 Nobel Prize for Literature (2 wds.) |
| 60% | AGEE | 4 | Pulitzer Prize winning novelist James ___ |
| 60% | TONI | 4 | Nobel novelist Morrison |
| 58% | KIPLING | 7 | Rudyard ___, Nobel Prize-winning English novelist who was born in December |
| 57% | ELIE | 4 | Nobel laureate and novelist Wiesel |
| 55% | TERESA | 6 | Nobel Peace Prize winning Catholic sister |
| 55% | UREY | 4 | Nobel Prize winning physical chemist Harold ___ |
| 55% | KAWABATA | 8 | Japanese Nobel novelist Yasunari |
| 54% | ELIE | 4 | Novelist Wiesel with a Nobel Peace Prize |
| 54% | PEACE | 5 | Nobel Prize category won by Malala Yousafzai |
| 54% | CHEMISTRY | 9 | Nobel prize won by scientist Ernest Rutherford |
| 54% | PEACE | 5 | Nobel ___ Prize (award won by Mother Teresa) |
| 52% | ELIE | 4 | ___ Wiesel, a Nobel prize winning author |
| 52% | AGEE | 4 | Pulitzer Prize winning American novelist, James |
| 52% | CURIE | 5 | Marie who won two Nobel Prizes |
| 52% | CURIE | 5 | First to win two Nobel Prizes |
| 52% | TERESA | 6 | Mother who won a Nobel Prize |
| 52% | PHOTOELECTRIC | 13 | ''Effect'' that won Einstein his Nobel |