| 100% | PEARSON | 7 | 1930's-60's columnist who wrote "Washington Merry-Go-Round" |
| 40% | LOUISEERDRICH | 13 | Native American novelist who wrote 2012's "The Round House": 2 wds. |
| 39% | CAEN | 4 | Columnist who wrote "Baghdad by the Bay" |
| 39% | BELINDA | 7 | Go-Go's singer Carlisle who wrote the 2010 autobiography "Lips Unsealed" |
| 38% | CAEN | 4 | Columnist who wrote "Don't Call It Frisco," 1953 |
| 37% | HELOISE | 7 | Popular newspaper columnist who writes for Good Housekeeping |
| 37% | SAFIRE | 6 | Columnist William who wrote "On Language" |
| 36% | LEWIS | 5 | 1930 Literature Nobelist Sinclair who wrote "Main Street" |
| 35% | DOWD | 4 | Columnist Maureen who wrote "The Year of Voting Dangerously" |
| 35% | ERMA | 4 | Bombeck who wrote When You Look Like Your Passport Photo, It's Time to Go Home |
| 34% | NED | 3 | ___ Washington, who wrote "When You Wish Upon a Star" |
| 34% | GEORGEWILL | 10 | Newspaper columnist who wrote the book "Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball" |
| 34% | ELIOT | 5 | T. S. who wrote Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats |
| 34% | DRSEUSS | 7 | Who wrote "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not" |
| 34% | BLANE | 5 | Ralph who wrote "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" |
| 34% | ELI | 3 | Author Gottlieb who wrote "The Boy Who Went Away" |
| 34% | MILEY | 5 | Singer Cyrus who wrote the memoir "Miles to Go" |
| 34% | ERDRICH | 7 | Louise who wrote “Love Medicine” and “The Round House” |
| 34% | DONNE | 5 | Poet who wrote "To His Mistress Going to Bed" |
| 34% | STEINER | 7 | Composer Max, who wrote Gone With The Wind score |
| 33% | ELIOT | 5 | T. S. ___, poet who wrote "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" |
| 33% | NEMEROV | 7 | Poet Howard who wrote "A Primer of the Daily Round" |
| 33% | CAPRA | 5 | Frank who directed "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" |
| 32% | EDNA | 4 | With 5-Down, Algonquin Round Table member who wrote “Giant” and “Cimarron” |
| 32% | MRSMITH | 7 | James Stewart title character who goes to Washington |
| 31% | TINAFEY | 7 | "S.N.L." alumna who wrote "Bossypants" |
| 31% | YEATS | 5 | Poet who wrote "I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree" |
| 31% | LISASCOTTOLINE | 14 | Lawyer who wrote the thrillers "Look Again" and "Don't Go": 2 wds. |
| 31% | SHAW | 4 | Playwright who wrote "Walk! Not bloody likely. I am going in a taxi" |
| 31% | MRSMITH | 7 | Man who goes to Washington in a 1939 film |