| 100% | MASTERS | 7 | __ and Johnson, scientists who wrote about sex |
| 54% | TSELIOT | 7 | Poet who wrote about Grizabella and Mungojerrie |
| 54% | ROALDDAHL | 9 | Author who wrote about giant peaches and foxes |
| 54% | DAHL | 4 | Author who wrote about James, Charlie and Matilda |
| 53% | ERNEST | 6 | Literature Nobelist who wrote about Zelda, Gertrude, and Sylvia |
| 52% | WRITER | 6 | Dance ___, professional who writes about dance performances and related ideas |
| 49% | TESS | 4 | Author Gerritsen who writes about the crime-solving duo of Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles |
| 47% | ALGER | 5 | Horatio who wrote about down-and-out boys |
| 45% | CANDACE | 7 | Bushnell who wrote "Sex and the City" |
| 44% | DADPOETSSOCIETY | 15 | 1989 drama about fathers who join a club to write odes and sonnets? |
| 44% | ANNE | 4 | Rice who has written about werewolves, mummies and vampires |
| 43% | EDMOND | 6 | Rostand who wrote about Cyrano |
| 43% | EDA | 3 | LeShan who wrote about children |
| 43% | LEY | 3 | Willy ___ who wrote about rockets |
| 43% | SEUSS | 5 | Author who wrote about Octember |
| 43% | AMORIST | 7 | Someone who writes about love |
| 43% | ELEANOR | 7 | Catton who wrote “Birnam Wood,” about the entanglement between a billionaire and a guerrilla environmental-activism group (March, 2023) |
| 43% | WILLA | 5 | Author who wrote about frontier life |
| 43% | NOAM | 4 | Author Chomsky who writes about linguistics |
| 42% | ZANE | 4 | Grey who wrote about the Old West |
| 42% | OVID | 4 | Roman poet who wrote about 33-Across |
| 42% | AESOP | 5 | Greek writer who wrote about talking animals |
| 42% | ENID | 4 | Blyton who wrote about the Famous Five |
| 42% | HEIDEGGER | 9 | German philosopher Martin, who wrote about Dasein |
| 42% | ADAMSMITH | 9 | Economist who wrote about an "invisible hand" |
| 42% | ROUSSEAU | 8 | Philosopher who wrote about a social contract |
| 42% | NICKHORNBY | 10 | British author who wrote "About a Boy," 16-Across, and 31-Across (2 wds.) |
| 42% | NYE | 3 | TV scientist Bill who wrote "Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation" |
| 41% | CARL | 4 | ___ Sagan, American astronomer and scientist who wrote the book "Cosmos" |
| 41% | BAUM | 4 | Author who wrote about the Land of Oz |