| 100% | NEIL | 4 | Pulitzer-winning writer Sheehan |
| 94% | NEILS | 5 | Pulitzer-winning writer Sheehan and others |
| 83% | NEIL | 4 | Pulitzer-winning writer on Vietnam___Sheehan |
| 80% | NEIL | 4 | Pulitzer writer Sheehan |
| 72% | NAN | 3 | Pulitzer-winning writer Robertson |
| 72% | AGEE | 4 | Pulitzer-winning writer James |
| 72% | ZOE | 3 | Pulitzer-winning writer Akins |
| 72% | DOWD | 4 | Pulitzer-winning writer Maureen |
| 71% | SUSAN | 5 | Pulitzer-winning Sheehan |
| 70% | OLDS | 4 | Writer Sharon who won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry |
| 69% | VIETTHANHNGUYEN | 15 | Pulitzer-winning writer of “The Sympathizer” |
| 69% | JAMESAG | 7 | 1958 Pulitzer-winning writer? |
| 67% | MCPHEE | 6 | Writer John who won a Pulitzer for "Annals of the Former World" |
| 67% | WELTY | 5 | Pulitzer-winning writer of "The Optimist's Daughter" |
| 63% | WILKERSON | 9 | Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Isabel |
| 63% | ROETHKE | 7 | Theodore —, writer whose volume The Waking won the 1954 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry |
| 62% | SAMSHEPARD | 10 | Writer, actor, and director who won a Pulitzer Prize for the play "Buried Child" (2 wds.) |
| 59% | JHUMPALAHIRI | 12 | Short-story writer whose "Interpreter of Maladies" won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2 wds.) |
| 55% | ROREM | 5 | 1976 Pulitzer winning composer, Ned ___ |
| 55% | AGEE | 4 | Pulitzer writer James |
| 53% | ROBERTFROST | 11 | 17-Across and 26-Across writer who is the only person to win four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry (2 wds.) |
| 53% | ANNE | 4 | 2004 Pulitzer winning journalist and author Applebaum |
| 53% | LESS | 4 | Andrew Greer's 2017 Pulitzer winning novel |
| 52% | LEE | 3 | Pulitzer Prize winning author Harper |
| 52% | AGEE | 4 | Pulitzer Prize winning novelist James ___ |
| 52% | FROST | 5 | American writer Robert, who won four Pulitzers and the Congressional Gold Medal, and is best known for "The Road Not Taken" |
| 51% | AGEE | 4 | Pulitzer Prize winning American novelist, James |
| 51% | AGAR | 4 | 1934 Pulitzer writer Herbert |
| 50% | AGE | 3 | Edith Wharton's Pulitzer winning novel "The ___ of Innocence" |
| 49% | OMAR | 4 | 2023 Pulitzer-Prize winning opera |