| 100% | BESTALL | 7 | Alfred —, author and illustrator, from 1935, of the Rupert Bear tales |
| 41% | AESOP | 5 | Author of "The Lion, the Bear and the Fox" |
| 40% | MAMA | 4 | Medium-sized member of the trio from "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" |
| 40% | TENNYSON | 8 | Alfred —, author of poems The Lady of Shalott and Voices in the Mist |
| 40% | IRALEVIN | 8 | Author of novels The Boys from Brazil and The Stepford Wives |
| 39% | IRALEVIN | 8 | Author of the novels The Boys from Brazil and The Stepford Wives |
| 39% | TONYPARSONS | 11 | Author of novels Men from the Boys and One for My Baby |
| 39% | ANDREALEVY | 10 | Author of the novels Fruit of the Lemon and Never Far from Nowhere |
| 39% | PERRAULT | 8 | Charles —, French author of fairy tales Cinderella and The Sleeping Beauty |
| 38% | HOPE | 4 | Anthony —, author of novels The Prisoner of Zenda and Rupert of Hentzau |
| 38% | LEVIN | 5 | Ira —, author of novels The Boys from Brazil and The Stepford Wives |
| 38% | RIORDAN | 7 | Maurice —, author of poetry volumes Floods and A Word from the Loki |
| 38% | ADLER | 5 | Alfred —, Austrian psychiatrist who authored The Neurotic Character and The Practice and Theory of Individual Psychology |
| 38% | JOHNMONTAGUE | 12 | Author of volumes Drunken Sailor and Smashing the Piano; Ireland Chair of Poetry from 1998-2001 |
| 38% | MARGARETATWOOD | 14 | Author of the dystopian novel "The Handmaid's Tale" and its sequel, "The Testaments": 2 wds. |
| 38% | TREVANIAN | 9 | Author born Rodney Whitaker whose novels include The Crazyladies of Pearl Street and The Eiger Sanction |
| 38% | STEPHENKING | 11 | Author born 9/21/1947 who penned the starts of 17-, 24-, 38- and 52-Across |
| 37% | ALANPLATER | 10 | Dramatist; author of ITV’s The Beiderbecke Trilogy and BBC TV series Trinity Tales |
| 37% | BURN | 4 | Gordon —, author of novels Alma Cogan and Born Yesterday: The News as a Novel |
| 37% | TENNYSON | 8 | Alfred —, author of the poems The Lady of Shalott and Voices in the Mist |
| 37% | RICARDO | 7 | David —, British economist born in 1772 who authored The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation |
| 37% | OZEKI | 5 | Ruth ___, author of "A Tale for the Time Being" and "The Book of Form and Emptiness" |
| 36% | ANDREALEVY | 10 | Author of novels Fruit of the Lemon and Never Far from Nowhere |
| 36% | DUNN | 4 | Nell —, author of the stage plays Steaming and Cancer Tales |
| 35% | BARACK | 6 | "Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance" author who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009 |
| 35% | LEVIN | 5 | Ira —, author of the novels The Boys from Brazil and The Stepford Wives |
| 34% | WANTTOGOSTEPHENKING | 19 | End of the quote, and its author |
| 34% | CHICAGO | 7 | City of the Bears and the Bulls |
| 34% | DEN | 3 | Home of the bears and the cubs? |
| 34% | CHI | 3 | Home of the Bulls and Bears, informally |