100% | WOOLF | 5 | Writer of the line “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction” |
39% | EDITHWHARTON | 12 | 13-Across and 25-Across writer who was the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize in Literature, for her 1920 novel "The Age of Innocence" (2 wds.) |
37% | RNA | 3 | British org. for the support of "women’s fiction" and honestly, to be a member, the genre likely has to run in your genes? |
36% | EDGARALLANPOE | 13 | American writer who is considered to be the inventor of the detective fiction, and wrote the poem, "The Raven": 3 wds. |
34% | DESADE | 6 | He wrote "The only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment" |
34% | JOHNASHBERY | 11 | Writer of the lines “And the poem / Has set me softly down beside you. The poem is you.” |
32% | YOUREMISSINGOUT | 15 | "That's a lost opportunity," and what can be said to the writer of four clues in this puzzle |
32% | ANNE | 4 | Sci-fi writer McCaffrey, who was the first woman to win a Hugo for fiction |
32% | LEY | 3 | Writer Willy who wrote "The Conquest of Space" ('49) and for whom a crater is named on the far side of the moon |
31% | MILNE | 5 | Writer of the line "Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?" |
31% | MEGANCAVANAGH | 13 | Actress who sang "It Had to Be You" in a memorable bar scene in the 1992 film "A League of Their Own" (2 wds.) |
31% | ANDREADWORKIN | 13 | “Intercourse” writer who envisioned a “road to freedom open to women, men, and that emerging majority, the rest of us” |
31% | MIDDLEMARCH | 11 | Sixth novel by George Eliot (birthday yesterday) which was written in two pieces that holds a lot of historical value and is considered to be her best work |
31% | OWE | 3 | Have a sum of money to be repaid |
31% | RUSSELLBRAND | 12 | Comedian and voice actor in "Despicable Me" who has his own podcast, ''Under the Skin'' which is a mix of intellectual interrogations: 2 wds. |
30% | TINAFEY | 7 | Actress/writer who was the first woman to be head writer of "Saturday Night Live," and the third woman to host five times (2 wds.) |
30% | NUDE | 4 | Second single from Radiohead's album in 18a, that had a different title originally and was supposed to be part of the album "OK Computer" |
30% | PLATH | 5 | Poet who wrote "I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am" |
30% | WAINSCOT | 8 | Lining of wood panelling applied to the walls of a room |
30% | WEAREFAMILY | 11 | Sister Sledge classic whose second line is "I got all my sisters with me," and a hint to the starts of 17-, 24-, 39-, and 49-Across |
30% | LORNASIMPSON | 12 | "Projects 23" photographer who was the first African-American woman to have a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (2 wds.) |
30% | OSCAR | 5 | (With 13-Across) "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go" |
30% | PREGNANT | 8 | What a woman is when she has "a bun in the oven" |
30% | VIEIRA | 6 | Meredith of the "Today" show and "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" |
30% | PRIMOLEVI | 9 | Italian chemist and writer of If This is a Man |
30% | BRIDAL | 6 | Referring to a woman in the context of her wedding |
30% | AMUSEMENT | 9 | “One must be serious about something, if one wants to have any ___ in life”: “The Importance of Being Earnest” |
29% | TOKENS | 6 | Items a member of the American Vecturist Association is likely to have a lot of |
29% | ANIMALFARM | 10 | Source of the line "Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend" |
29% | RONALDREAGAN | 12 | U.S. president who was the first born in Illinois, the first to have been divorced, and the first to nominate a woman to the Supreme Court (2 wds.) |