| 100% | ROBERT | 6 | ___ Lowell, "Land of Unlikeness" writer who was Elizabeth Bishop's pen pal |
| 51% | HENRY | 5 | ___ Miller, "Tropic of Cancer" writer who was Anais Nin's pen pal |
| 45% | SIMONE | 6 | ___ De Beauvoir, "The Second Sex" writer who was Jean-Paul Sartre's pen pal |
| 45% | AGATHA | 6 | ___ Christie, "Death on the Nile" writer who was P. G. Wodehouse's pen pal |
| 42% | EVELYN | 6 | ___ Waugh, "Vile Bodies" writer who was Nancy Mitford's pen pal |
| 33% | SEBASTIAN | 9 | Pal of Ariel's who was nearly cooked in the film |
| 33% | BOLEYN | 6 | Anne who was the mother of Elizabeth I |
| 33% | LEWISCARROLL | 12 | Writer who was the source of all the words with asterisked clues in this puzzle |
| 33% | PLATH | 5 | "The Bell Jar" writer who was the subject of the 2003 film "Sylvia" |
| 33% | WOODSTOCK | 9 | Yellow bird who is a pal of 23-Across |
| 32% | FRANKDEFORD | 11 | Former Sports Illustrated writer who was Sportswriter of the Year six times (2 wds.) |
| 32% | ISABELALLENDE | 13 | Chilean-American writer who was awarded the 2014 Presidential Medal of Freedom: 2 wds. |
| 32% | ARIE | 4 | NYC's "Mad" writer Kaplan who also penned "Masters of the Comic Book Universe Revealed!" |
| 32% | HUGO | 4 | Writer who was a source for Verdi's "Rigoletto" |
| 32% | LESLEYVISSER | 12 | Former Boston Globe writer who was voted the #1 Female Sportscaster of all time: 2 wds. |
| 31% | DANIELLESTEEL | 13 | Novelist who is the fourth best-selling fiction writer of all time |
| 30% | WIZARD | 6 | Fraud who is the target of Dorothy Gale's quest in the land of Oz, and the supposed protagonist in the namesake films |
| 30% | NORA | 4 | Roberts who was the first inductee into the Romance Writers of America Hall of Fame |
| 30% | DRSEUSS | 7 | Prolific children's writer and illustrator who used his real middle name as part of his pen name (2 wds.) |
| 30% | MACKENZIE | 9 | Writer who's the ex-wife of Jeff Bezos |
| 29% | EDGARALLANPOE | 13 | American writer who is considered to be the inventor of the detective fiction, and wrote the poem, "The Raven": 3 wds. |
| 29% | POPEPIUSIV | 10 | Bishop of Rome who was elected 460 years ago today |
| 29% | GEORGEVI | 8 | Monarch who was Queen Elizabeth II's father |
| 29% | HUN | 3 | Invader who was part of Attila's army |
| 29% | EDIE | 4 | Sedgwick who was one of Warhol’s superstars |
| 29% | WATSON | 6 | Emma ___, actress who was offered the role of Mia in "La La Land" instead of Emma Stone |
| 29% | PERRY | 5 | Rick who is Trump's secretary of energy |
| 29% | REX | 3 | Tillerson who was Trump's first Secretary of State |
| 29% | MICHELLE | 8 | Williams who was a member of Destiny's Child |
| 29% | EZRA | 4 | Pound who was a friend of T.S. Eliot |