| 100% | ANET | 4 | Pen name of writer J. Schopfer |
| 60% | GALBRAITH | 9 | Pen name of J.K. Rowling, Robert __ |
| 59% | SAKI | 4 | Pen name of short story writer H.H. Munro |
| 57% | MARKTWAIN | 9 | Pen name of the American writer born Samuel Clemens: 2 wds. |
| 57% | ELIOT | 5 | George ___, pen name of the Victorian writer Mary Ann Evans |
| 49% | SAKI | 4 | Pen name of Munro |
| 49% | ELIA | 4 | Pen name of Charles Lamb |
| 49% | LOTI | 4 | Pen name of novelist Viaud |
| 49% | ACTONBELL | 9 | Pen name of Anne Brontë |
| 49% | ISAK | 4 | Pen name of Danish lit |
| 48% | ABBY | 4 | Pen name of columnist Pauline Phillips |
| 48% | ELIA | 4 | Pen name of essayist Charles Lamb |
| 48% | SAKI | 4 | Pen name of H. H. Munro |
| 48% | MARKTWAIN | 9 | Pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens |
| 47% | KEENE | 5 | Writer Carolyn, the pen name of more than 10 authors of the Nancy Drew series |
| 47% | ORWELL | 6 | Pen name of Arthur Eric Blair: George __ |
| 47% | CARROLL | 7 | Pen Name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson: Lewis __ |
| 47% | NELLIEBLY | 9 | Pen name of journalist Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman |
| 47% | ABBY | 4 | Pen name of the columnist Jeanne Phillips |
| 47% | OUIDA | 5 | Literary pen name of old |
| 46% | ANNLANDERS | 10 | Pen name of Ruth Crowley and Eppie Lederer |
| 46% | GEORGEELIOT | 11 | Pen name of the female author of "Silas Marner" |
| 46% | ELLISBELL | 9 | Pen name of the female author of "Wuthering Heights" |
| 45% | KAREN | 5 | Real first name of writer Isak Dinesen |
| 45% | ISAKDINESEN | 11 | Pen name of the female author of "Out of Africa" |
| 45% | ISAKDINESEN | 11 | Pen name of the author of 19-Across: 2 wds. |
| 45% | ANDYSTACK | 9 | Pen name of the female author of True Detective stories |
| 45% | HERRIOT | 7 | James __; pen name of vet author Alf Wight |
| 45% | ELIOT | 5 | George ___, pen name of novelist Mary Ann Evans |
| 44% | NORAROBERTS | 11 | Romance writer behind the pen name J.D. Robb (2 wds.) |