| 100% | HAL | 3 | Supercomputer in the novels "2001" and "2010" |
| 55% | AMNESIA | 7 | Memory malady in the "Jason Bourne" novels and films |
| 53% | THIRDMAN | 8 | The __, Graham Greene novel and film set in Vienna |
| 52% | DESAI | 5 | Anita —, author of the novels In Custody and The Village by the Sea |
| 52% | GEORGE | 6 | & 23A Author of the novels The Nether World and Workers in the Dawn |
| 52% | BRAUTIGAN | 9 | Richard —, author of the novels In Watermelon Sugar and Trout Fishing in America |
| 52% | LARA | 4 | ___ Jean Song Covey (character in the "To All the Boys" movies and novels) |
| 52% | SONS | 4 | Word in the titles of novels by Ivan Turgenev and D. H. Lawrence |
| 51% | LYNNE | 5 | Author of the novels The Indian in the Cupboard and The L-Shaped Room |
| 51% | BYATT | 5 | A S —, author of the novels Still Life and The Virgin in the Garden |
| 51% | YEARS | 5 | 2001 and 2010 |
| 50% | LEWYCKA | 7 | Marina —, author of the novels Two Caravans and A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian |
| 50% | EMMA | 4 | Title heroine described in the first sentence of her novel as "handsome, clever and rich" |
| 50% | EMMA | 4 | Title heroine described in the first lines of her novel as "handsome, clever and rich" |
| 50% | HENRY | 5 | & 12D Author of novels Hunt the Slipper and Brothers in Law |
| 50% | MASON | 5 | A E W —, author of the novels The Prisoner in the Opal and The Four Feathers |
| 49% | SAFEHAVEN | 9 | 2010 Nicholas Sparks novel in which Alex and Katie fall in love: 2 wds. |
| 49% | ANITA | 5 | &25A Author of novels In Custody and The Village by the Sea |
| 49% | HAILEY | 6 | Arthur —, Bedfordshire-born author of novels In High Places and The Moneychangers |
| 49% | SOREL | 5 | Julien —, central character in 1830 Stendhal novel The Red and the Black |
| 48% | ISNER | 5 | John —, winner of the Heineken Open singles tennis tournament in 2010 and 2014 |
| 48% | ISNER | 5 | John —, winner of the Aukland Open singles tennis tournament in 2010 and 2014 |
| 48% | ABBA | 4 | Swedish band inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010 |
| 48% | ISNER | 5 | John —, winner of the Heineken Open singles tennis championship in 2010 and 2014 |
| 48% | TARBABY | 7 | 1981 novel about the interplay of privilege and poverty in a Caribbean romance |
| 48% | BAUER | 5 | Jack ___, lead role in the 2001-2010 series "24" |
| 48% | WILBURSMITH | 11 | Author of novels The Leopard Hunts in Darkness and The Eye of the Tiger |
| 48% | ABRIDGED | 8 | Shortened, and what the letters removed from eight novels in this puzzle spell out |