| 100% | RAZORSEDGE | 10 | Somerset Maugham novel, with "The" |
| 74% | HERO | 4 | 1901 Maugham novel, with "The" |
| 68% | EDGE | 4 | Somerset Maugham's novel "The Razor's ___" |
| 67% | THERAZORSEDGE | 13 | Somerset Maugham novel |
| 66% | EDGE | 4 | "The Razor's ___" (W. Somerset Maugham novel) |
| 66% | RAZORSEDGE | 10 | Maugham novel made into a 1946 movie, with "The" |
| 64% | DUNE | 4 | Novel with the desert planet Arrakis |
| 63% | OMOO | 4 | Novel with the chapter "Farming in Polynesia" |
| 62% | ALE | 3 | "Cakes and ___" (W. Somerset Maugham novel) |
| 62% | CAKES | 5 | "___ and Ale" (W. Somerset Maugham novel) |
| 62% | JANEEYRE | 8 | Novel with the line "Reader, I married him" |
| 61% | OPIONEERS | 9 | Classic novel with the heroine Alexandra Bergson |
| 60% | MOBYDICK | 8 | Melville novel with the line "Call me Ishmael" |
| 60% | OMOO | 4 | 1847 novel with the chapter "Life at Loohooloo" |
| 59% | OLDMANANDTHESEA | 15 | 1952 novel, with The |
| 59% | MAGICIAN | 8 | The —, 1908 novel by W Somerset Maugham |
| 59% | ATALEOFTWOCITIES | 16 | Dickens novel with the 56-Across as its backdrop |
| 58% | YAAGYASI | 8 | Writer with the novel Homegoing |
| 58% | UGLIES | 6 | 2005 Scott Westerfeld sci-fi novel with the sequel "Pretties" |
| 57% | VEIL | 4 | "The Painted ___" (2006 film based on a W. Somerset Maugham novel) |
| 57% | STAND | 5 | Stephen King novel, with The |
| 57% | NEVERLETMEGO | 12 | 2005 Kazuo Ishiguro novel with the line “Carers aren’t machines” |
| 56% | VAMPIRE | 7 | Interview with the __, novel by Anne Rice |
| 56% | TILLIE | 6 | Walden with the graphic novel memoir "Spinning" |
| 55% | TYLER | 5 | Anne with the Pulitzer-winning novel "Breathing Lessons" |
| 55% | SARA | 4 | Author Paretsky with the 2024 novel "Pay Dirt" |
| 54% | NEAL | 4 | Science fiction author Stephenson with the upcoming novel "Seveneves" |
| 54% | PETSEMATARY | 11 | Stephen King novel with a misspelling in the title |
| 53% | JODI | 4 | Writer Picoult with the 2021 novel "Wish You Were Here" |
| 53% | EMMA | 4 | Classic novel with the line "You must be the best judge of your own happiness" |