| 100% | DEADBEAT | 8 | What "D Is for," in a book title in Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone detective series |
| 61% | UNDERTOW | 8 | What "U Is for," in a Sue Grafton book title |
| 61% | INNOCENT | 8 | What "I Is for," in a Sue Grafton book title |
| 61% | HOMICIDE | 8 | What "H Is for," in a Sue Grafton book title |
| 55% | NOOSE | 5 | What "N Is for" in a Sue Grafton title |
| 54% | ALIBI | 5 | What "A is for," in a Sue Grafton book |
| 54% | NOOSE | 5 | What "N" is for, in a Sue Grafton title |
| 52% | ALIBI | 5 | What "A" is for, in Sue Grafton's mystery series |
| 50% | NOOSE | 5 | What "N Is for" in one of Sue Grafton's titles |
| 37% | RIS | 3 | "___ for Ricochet" (#18 in Sue Grafton's "alphabet series" of mysteries): 2 wds. |
| 36% | ISFOR | 5 | Phrase in all but one of Sue Grafton's "Alphabet Series" titles (2 wds.) |
| 35% | TITLE | 5 | What 7a is for a book |
| 35% | MADELINE | 8 | Title girl in a children's book series set in Paris |
| 35% | ITALS | 5 | A book title may be in it: Abbr. |
| 35% | ALIBI | 5 | Sue Grafton’s “A Is for ___” |
| 34% | TEC | 3 | Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone, e.g. |
| 34% | TOPSY | 5 | Title twin sister in a series of children's books by Jean and Gareth Adamson |
| 33% | RAMONA | 6 | Title character in a Beverly Cleary book series |
| 33% | VISFORVENGEANCE | 15 | *22nd in a Sue Grafton series |
| 33% | LWORD | 5 | What might be "love" or "lesbian" in a TV show title |
| 32% | ESTER | 5 | Title role for Rowin Amone in a 2019 web series |
| 32% | LEROY | 5 | ___ Brown, kid detective nicknamed Encyclopedia in a book series by Donald J. Sobol |
| 32% | REDDEAD | 7 | Redemption is a title in this popular game series |
| 32% | LIBEL | 5 | What a tabloid may be sued for |
| 32% | LIBEL | 5 | What a newspaper might be sued for |
| 32% | NATE | 4 | ___ the Great (detective in a series of children's books) |
| 31% | NOOSE | 5 | Sue Grafton's "N Is for —" |
| 31% | NOOSE | 5 | Sue Grafton's "N Is for ___" |
| 31% | STEPHENCOLBERT | 14 | Author of a satirical book whose title consists of five U.S. state abbreviations (and is hidden in this puzzle) |