| 100% | UNCAS | 5 | Son of Chingachgook, in a Cooper novel |
| 54% | THREE | 5 | Number of musketeers in a Dumas novel |
| 53% | JESU | 4 | Son of God, in a Bach cantata title |
| 53% | AHAB | 4 | Mariner in a whale of a novel? |
| 51% | ROO | 3 | Son of Kanga in stories by A A Milne |
| 51% | NEMO | 4 | Son of Marlin and Coral, in a 2003 movie |
| 51% | SINON | 5 | Son of Aesimus in Greek mythology or a JavaScript term |
| 51% | PREACHER | 8 | Son of a __ Man, hit for Dusty Springfield in 1968 |
| 50% | BIFF | 4 | Son in “Death of a Salesman” |
| 50% | AJSOPRANO | 9 | Son of a famous TV family, in more ways than one |
| 50% | SANJAY | 6 | __ Gandhi, son of Indira, died in a plane crash |
| 50% | ALBUSDUMBLEDORE | 15 | School head in a best-selling series of novels |
| 50% | DRFUMANCHU | 10 | *Sinister genius in a series of Sax Rohmer novels |
| 50% | HARRYHOLE | 9 | Detective in a series of Jo Nesbø crime novels |
| 49% | DUNCES | 6 | A Confederacy of __, novel set in New Orleans |
| 49% | PLOT | 4 | Sequence of events in a novel or film |
| 48% | TWILIGHT | 8 | First book in a series of vampire novels by Stephenie Meyer |
| 48% | ENOLA | 5 | Sherlock Holmes's younger sister in a series of YA novels |
| 48% | KINGDOM | 7 | One of three in a classic Chen Shou novel |
| 48% | ORESTES | 7 | Son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra in Greek mythology; subject of a play by Euripides |
| 48% | EVEDUNCAN | 9 | Forensic sculptor in a series of novels by Iris Johansen (2 wds.) |
| 47% | PINDUS | 6 | Son of Makedon in Greek mythology after whom a river in ancient Greece was named |
| 47% | SPY | 3 | The —, 1821 James Fenimore Cooper novel subtitled A Tale of the Neutral Ground |
| 47% | TESSMONAGHAN | 12 | Reporter-turned-investigator in a series of novels by 44-Across (2 wds.) |
| 47% | ARMANDGAMACHE | 13 | Chief inspector in a series of mystery novels by Louise Penny (2 wds.) |
| 47% | UNCAS | 5 | The last of the Mohicans, in Cooper's novel |
| 47% | UTTLEY | 6 | Alison —, author of 1939 novel A Traveller in Time |
| 47% | GANTRY | 6 | Last name of Elmer in a Sinclair Lewis novel |
| 46% | TESSMONAGHAN | 12 | Reporter-turned-investigator in a series of crime novels by 44-Across (2 wds.) |
| 46% | LOLITA | 6 | Noted novel in the guise of a posthumously published memoir |