| 100% | ASI | 3 | William Faulkner novel "___ Lay Dying": 2 wds. |
| 82% | ASI | 3 | William Faulkner's "___ Lay Dying": 2 wds. |
| 79% | ASI | 3 | "___ Lay Dying," 1930 novel by William Faulkner, the title of which is derived from Homer's "Odyssey": 2 wds. |
| 79% | ASI | 3 | "___ Lay Dying," 1930 William Faulkner novel: 2 wds. |
| 77% | ASI | 3 | "___ Lay Dying" (William Faulkner novel): 2 wds. |
| 76% | ASI | 3 | William Faulkner's "___ Lay Dying" (2 wds.) |
| 68% | ILAY | 4 | William Faulkner's "As ___ Dying": 2 wds. |
| 63% | ASI | 3 | "___ Lay Dying" (Faulkner novel): 2 wds. |
| 62% | ASI | 3 | Faulkner's "___ Lay Dying": 2 wds. |
| 62% | ASI | 3 | "___ Lay Dying" (Faulkner novel adapted into a 2013 James Franco movie that was screened at Cannes): 2 wds. |
| 56% | ASI | 3 | "___ Lay Dying": 2 wds. |
| 49% | THEMANSION | 10 | 1959 novel by William Faulkner that is the last of the trilogy on the Snopes family: 2 wds. |
| 46% | ILAY | 4 | Faulkner's "As ___ Dying": 2 wds. |
| 43% | LIGHTINAUGUST | 13 | 1932 William Faulkner novel |
| 40% | LAY | 3 | William Faulkner's "As I ___ Dying" |
| 40% | THEREIVERS | 10 | "___: A Reminiscence," the last novel by William Faulkner that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: 2 wds. |
| 38% | PLAYDEAD | 8 | Lie motionless: 2 wds. |
| 38% | AWALK | 5 | "___ to Remember": 2 wds. (Nicholas Sparks novel) |
| 37% | ABSALOM | 7 | Name repeated twice in William Faulkner's novel |
| 37% | ASI | 3 | Faulkner's "__ Lay Dying" |
| 37% | PYLON | 5 | "M-Train" band who shares its name with a 1935 William Faulkner novel |
| 36% | ASI | 3 | Faulkner's "___ Lay Dying" |
| 35% | ASI | 3 | Faulkner's "_____ Lay Dying" |
| 35% | ASI | 3 | ...Faulkner's "___ Lay Dying" |
| 34% | POTATOCHIPS | 11 | Lay's snacks: 2 wds. |
| 34% | FURY | 4 | "The Sound and the ___" (William Faulkner novel) |
| 33% | ASI | 3 | Faulkner’s “___ Lay Dying” |
| 33% | ASILAYDYING | 11 | 1930 novel by William Faulkner |
| 32% | SATUP | 5 | Suddenly stopped lying down: 2 wds. |
| 32% | INLA | 4 | "To Live and Die ___" (2 wds.) |