| 100% | FRY | 3 | Roger —, art critic associated with the Bloomsbury Group about whom Virginia Woolf wrote a 1940 biography |
| 95% | ROGERFRY | 8 | Art critic associated with the Bloomsbury Group about whom Virginia Woolf wrote a 1940 biography |
| 27% | ELEANOR | 7 | Catton who wrote “Birnam Wood,” about the entanglement between a billionaire and a guerrilla environmental-activism group (March, 2023) |
| 25% | PARISREVIEW | 11 | With “The,” magazine with a long-running interview series about the craft of writing |
| 25% | WHOS | 4 | "___ Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" 1966 drama starring Elizabeth Taylor, with a question in the title |
| 24% | JOHN | 4 | With 19-Down, mustachioed libertarian pundit who wrote the book “Give Me a Break” |
| 24% | MASHA | 5 | Gessen who wrote the 2012 Putin biography "The Man Without a Face" |
| 24% | LIVING | 6 | With 9-Down, Queen Latifah sitcom from the nineties about a group of unpartnered friends |
| 24% | BAEZ | 4 | Folk singer Joan who wrote the memoir "And A Voice to Sing With" |
| 24% | THESIXTHSENSEI | 14 | Film remake about a student who finally finds the right martial arts teacher? |
| 24% | TSELIOT | 7 | Who wrote "This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but a whimper" |
| 24% | MRSDALLOWAY | 11 | Virginia Woolf's novel about a day in the life of a woman in England post World War I: 2 wds. |
| 23% | DRAGONTATTOO | 12 | "The Girl With the ___," novel about teen hacker Lisbeth Salander, who has distinctive body art: 2 wds. |
| 23% | RACHEL | 6 | With 31-Across, Debbie Downer portrayer on "SNL" who wrote the memoir "Girl Walks Into a Bar ..." |
| 23% | SOCIALNETWORK | 13 | With "The," 2010 film about the early days of Facebook with a screenplay written by Aaron Sorkin : 2 wds. |
| 23% | KAHN | 4 | Roger who wrote "A Season in the Sun" |
| 23% | POE | 3 | Poet who wrote the line "But we loved with a love that was more than love" |
| 23% | LENA | 4 | Waithe who shared the 2017 Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series with Aziz Ansari |
| 23% | ELIOT | 5 | Poet who wrote "This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but a whimper" |
| 23% | BIRD | 4 | "Summer ___ Blue," novel by Akemi Dawn Bowman about a young woman who writes songs with her sister |
| 23% | RAJ | 3 | ___ Koothrappali, astrophysicist from "The Big Bang Theory" who forms a band with his friend and writes songs about sci-fi characters |
| 22% | RAPTURE | 7 | 1981 song by Blondie with lyrics about a man from Mars, who also features in the music video |
| 22% | TWO | 3 | "___ Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," 1975 dramedy about a prisoner who fakes insanity ... with 40a added in |
| 22% | CARS | 4 | Group for whom "Drive" was a Top 10 hit, with "The" |
| 22% | RODHULL | 7 | Entertainer associated with the puppet Emu who died in 1999 |
| 22% | EPA | 3 | Group associated with the Clean Water Act: Abbr. |
| 22% | LAKER | 5 | Freddie —, entrepreneur associated with the Skytrain project who died in 2006 |
| 22% | THEWAVES | 8 | Virginia Woolf novel with interludes set on a beach |
| 22% | ANNEFRANK | 9 | Wrote a diary about the time she spent hiding |
| 22% | PTBARNUM | 8 | Showman associated with the quote "There's a sucker born every minute" |