| 100% | LAUREL | 6 | Pulitzer Prize winner Thatcher Ulrich who penned "A Midwife's Tale" |
| 34% | EXPOSE | 6 | Pulitzer Prize winner's piece, perhaps |
| 33% | TOOLE | 5 | Pulitzer Prize winner for “A Confederacy of Dunces” |
| 32% | AGEE | 4 | Pulitzer Prize winner for "A Death in the Family" |
| 31% | UPTON | 5 | Sinclair who won a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 31% | OLDS | 4 | Sharon who has a Pulitzer Prize for poetry |
| 31% | AGEOF | 5 | Wharton's Pulitzer Prize winner, The __ Innocence |
| 31% | JHUMPA | 6 | With 27-Across, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner who wrote 17-Across and 36-Across |
| 31% | DALAI | 5 | 1989 Nobel Peace Prize Winner, ___ Lama, who has a wax statue in Madame Tussauds, Vienna |
| 31% | LEE | 3 | Pulitzer prize winner Harper |
| 31% | ISABEL | 6 | Pulitzer Prize winner Wilkerson |
| 31% | ALS | 3 | Pulitzer Prize winner Hilton |
| 30% | OBAMA | 5 | 2009 Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Barack ___, who has a wax statue in Madame Tussauds, New York |
| 30% | LIN | 3 | Pulitzer Prize winner ___-Manuel Miranda |
| 30% | VIET | 4 | Pulitzer Prize winner ___ Thanh Nguyen |
| 30% | LOISLANE | 8 | Pulitzer Prize winner of comics |
| 30% | RITADOVE | 8 | U.S. poet laureate who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1987 |
| 30% | TONI | 4 | Morrison who won a Pulitzer Prize for her novel "Beloved" |
| 30% | SAULBELLOW | 10 | "Herzog" author and Nobel Prize winner who was honored with a 2024 US postage stamp: 2 wds. |
| 30% | TONI | 4 | Pulitzer Prize winner for Beloved, __ Morrison |
| 30% | INGE | 4 | "Picnic" Pulitzer Prize winner |
| 29% | NAN | 3 | Robertson who received a Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing in 1983 |
| 29% | LAMAR | 5 | Rapper Kendrick who won a Pulitzer Prize in 2018 |
| 29% | EDER | 4 | Richard ___ who won a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism |
| 29% | SAM | 3 | Playwright Shepard who won a Pulitzer Prize for "Buried Child" |
| 29% | EBERT | 5 | Film critic Roger who won a Pulitzer Prize |
| 29% | STUDSTERKEL | 11 | "The Good War" Pulitzer Prize winner |
| 29% | OLEN | 4 | 1993 Pulitzer Prize winner Robert ___ Butler |
| 28% | WRITESOFPASSAGE | 15 | Pens a seafaring tale? |
| 28% | ALICE | 5 | Novelist Walker who won a Pulitzer Prize for "The Color Purple" |