| 100% | SHERE | 5 | US author Hite who wrote "Fliegen mit Jupiter" (Flying with Jupiter) in 1993 |
| 37% | KENNETH | 7 | With 37-Across, Scottish author who wrote "The Wind in the Willows": 2 wds. |
| 35% | LEN | 3 | Author Deighton who wrote "Funeral in Berlin" |
| 34% | COLIN | 5 | ___ Powell, retired general in the U. S. Army who was honored with his second Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1993 |
| 34% | ROXANE | 6 | US author Gay, who wrote Hunger and Bad Feminist |
| 33% | IDA | 3 | Author Tarbell who wrote "All in the Day's Work" |
| 33% | FALLADA | 7 | German author Hans who wrote Alone in Berlin |
| 33% | PETERS | 6 | Author Torrey who wrote “Detransition, Baby,” in which a trans woman and a cis woman consider raising a child together with the person they've both loved (January, 2021) |
| 33% | HALDAVID | 8 | US lyricist who wrote with Burt Bacharach |
| 33% | ANNERICE | 8 | Author who wrote Interview with the Vampire |
| 32% | POE | 3 | Author who wrote "I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity" |
| 31% | BILLCLINTON | 11 | U.S. president who was inaugurated in 1993 (2 wds.) |
| 31% | NKJEMISIN | 9 | Afrofuturist author who wrote "The World We Make" |
| 31% | TRUMAN | 6 | Capote, US novelist who wrote In Cold Blood |
| 31% | TOLKIEN | 7 | Author who wrote "Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards" |
| 31% | ALAIN | 5 | Author ___ de Botton who wrote "Essays in Love" (anagram of "nalai") |
| 31% | TONI | 4 | & 4D US author; 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature winner |
| 31% | GEORGEHWBUSH | 12 | Former U.S. president who wrote "A World Transformed" with Brent Scowcroft (4 wds.) |
| 31% | JOYCE | 5 | Author who wrote "The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit" |
| 31% | AUSTEN | 6 | Author who wrote "Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance" |
| 31% | FRANKLIN | 8 | Benjamin, US inventor who flew his kite in a storm |
| 31% | VLAD | 4 | Seussian bird who flies off with Whoville in his beak |
| 30% | AYNRAND | 7 | Author who wrote "Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today" |
| 30% | ESTES | 5 | Best-selling author who wrote "Women Who Run With the Wolves" |
| 30% | LUIGI | 5 | Dramatist Pirandello who wrote "Six Characters in Search of an Author" |
| 30% | SALINGER | 8 | J.D. ___, famous author who wrote only one novel, "The Catcher in the Rye" |
| 30% | KATEMILLETT | 11 | Author who wrote, in “Sexual Politics,” that “patriarchy, reformed or unreformed, is patriarchy still” |
| 30% | ENGELS | 6 | Friedrich, who joined with Karl in authoring "The Holy Family" in 1844 |
| 30% | LARA | 4 | Nymph who divulged Jupiter's affair with Juturna, in Ovid |
| 29% | MANDELA | 7 | "Long Walk to Freedom" author who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 |