| NOSRAT | Samin ___, best-selling cookbook author |
| ACID | Salt Fat ___ Heat (best-selling cookbook) |
| STEEL | Danielle ___, best-selling author |
| HOOVER | Colleen _, best-selling US romance author (6) |
| PEALE | Norman Vincent ___, best-selling author of "The Power of Positive Thinking" |
| RONNIE | "I Love You, ___" (best-selling memoir) |
| ISI | "Woe ___" (best-selling grammar guide) |
| ROBERTS | Nora ___, best-selling American writer of romance novels (7) |
| KEN | Earring Magic ___, best-selling Mattel doll with queer-coded accessories |
| RACIST | "How to Be an Anti-___" (best-selling book of 2020) |
| KART | Mario ____: best-selling series of video racing games. (4) |
| YES | "Getting to ___" (best-selling business book) |
| MALALA | "I Am ___," best-selling autobiography of 2013 |
| CODE | "The Da Vinci ___," best selling book of the 2000s |
| AMBER | Forever _, best-selling Kathleen Winsor novel of 1944 (5) |
| HMART | "Crying in ___," best-selling memoir of 2021 |
| FAT | Salt ___ Acid Heat (cookbook by Samin Nosrat) |
| SALT | "___, Fat, Acid, Heat" (Samin Nosrat cookbook) |
| MYTH | "The Deficit ___" (best-selling Stephanie Kelton book about Modern Monetary Theory) |
| HOUSTON | Whitney _, best-selling recording artist who died a decade ago (7) |
