| 100% | DAV | 3 | ___ Pilkey, author/illustrator who created Captain Underpants |
| 50% | DAV | 3 | "Captain Underpants" author ___ Pilkey |
| 50% | BEATRIXPOTTER | 13 | Author/illustrator who created the title character of 18-Across: 2 wds. |
| 47% | VERNE | 5 | Jules who created Captain Nemo |
| 47% | WOUK | 4 | Herman who created Captain Queeg |
| 46% | DAV | 3 | Captain Underpants creator Pilkey |
| 45% | HERMAN | 6 | Author Melville who created Queequeg |
| 44% | IAN | 3 | Author Fleming who created James Bond |
| 44% | TESS | 4 | Author Gerritsen who created Rizzoli & Isles |
| 44% | LEE | 3 | Author Child who created Jack Reacher |
| 44% | AGATHA | 6 | Author Christie who created Hercule Poirot |
| 44% | DAN | 3 | Author Brown who created Robert Langdon |
| 44% | IAN | 3 | Author Fleming who created Auric Goldfinger |
| 44% | JANE | 4 | Author Austen who created 40-Across |
| 44% | BEATRIXPOTTER | 13 | Novelist and illustrator who created Mrs. Tittlemouse (2 wds) |
| 44% | ANNE | 4 | Author Rice who created the vampire Lestat |
| 44% | PRATCHETT | 9 | Author Terry who created turtle-borne Discworld |
| 44% | SARA | 4 | Author Paretsky who created V.I. Warshawski |
| 43% | SEARLE | 6 | English illustrator who created the "St. Trinian's" cartoon series |
| 43% | JILLMURPHY | 10 | British writer and illustrator who created 41-Across (2 wds.) |
| 43% | DAHL | 4 | Author Roald who created Matilda and Willy Wonka |
| 43% | STOKER | 6 | Author Bram who created Count Dracula in 1897 |
| 43% | REX | 3 | Author Stout who created the detective Nero Wolfe |
| 42% | SARA | 4 | Author Paretsky who created the detective V.I. Warshawski |
| 42% | TWAIN | 5 | Author Mark who created Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer |
| 42% | LEE | 3 | Author Harper who created Boo Radley and Atticus Finch |
| 42% | AYN | 3 | Author Rand who created the philosophical system called Objectivism |
| 42% | DICKENS | 7 | Author who created David Copperfield |
| 41% | TWAIN | 5 | Author Mark, who created Tom Sawyer |
| 41% | DICKENS | 7 | Author who created the Artful Dodger |