| 100% | WHITE | 5 | T H —, author of 1938 novel The Sword in the Stone |
| 61% | ONCE | 4 | , 12D & 20D The — , T H White tetralogy that features the novel The Sword in the Stone |
| 52% | SALINGER | 8 | J D —, author of 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye |
| 52% | THWHITE | 7 | "The Sword in the Stone" author |
| 52% | LYNNE | 5 | Author of the novels The Indian in the Cupboard and The L-Shaped Room |
| 51% | THORIUMWHITE | 12 | "The Sword in the Stone" author, to a chemist? |
| 50% | MASON | 5 | A E W —, author of the novels The Prisoner in the Opal and The Four Feathers |
| 48% | IVOANDRIC | 9 | Author of 1945 novel The Bridge on the Drina; 1961 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 47% | JAMESMICHENER | 13 | Author of the novels whose titles are the starts of nine answers in this puzzle |
| 47% | DESAI | 5 | Anita —, author of the novels In Custody and The Village by the Sea |
| 47% | GEORGE | 6 | & 23A Author of the novels The Nether World and Workers in the Dawn |
| 46% | STOUT | 5 | Rex —, author of mystery novels The Broken Vase and The Hand in the Glove |
| 46% | BYATT | 5 | A S —, author of the novels Still Life and The Virgin in the Garden |
| 46% | HENRY | 5 | & 12D Author of novels Hunt the Slipper and Brothers in Law |
| 46% | BENOKRI | 7 | Author of novels The Famished Road and In Arcadia |
| 46% | SCOTTTUROW | 10 | Author of novels set in the fictional Kindle County |
| 45% | WILBURSMITH | 11 | Author of novels The Leopard Hunts in Darkness and The Eye of the Tiger |
| 45% | EDSON | 5 | J T —, author of the novels Trail Boss and Waco's Debt |
| 45% | VERNE | 5 | Jules —, French author of 1873 novel Around the World in Eighty Days |
| 45% | JULES | 5 | & 4D French author of 1873 novel Around the World in Eighty Days |
| 45% | HAILEY | 6 | Arthur —, Bedfordshire-born author of novels In High Places and The Moneychangers |
| 45% | MYERS | 5 | L H —, author of novels The Orissers and Strange Glory |
| 45% | AMOSOZ | 6 | Author of novels My Michael and Panther in the Basement |
| 45% | BRAUTIGAN | 9 | Richard —, author of the novels In Watermelon Sugar and Trout Fishing in America |
| 44% | OKRI | 4 | Ben —, author of novels The Famished Road and In Arcadia |