| 100% | TENNYSON | 8 | Alfred —, author of the poems The Lady of Shalott and Voices in the Mist |
| 80% | TENNYSON | 8 | Alfred —, author of poems The Lady of Shalott and Voices in the Mist |
| 40% | STOUT | 5 | Rex —, author of mystery novels The Broken Vase and The Hand in the Glove |
| 39% | REVENGE | 7 | The —, Alfred Tennyson poem about Sir Richard Grenville and the 1591 Battle of Flores with the Spanish fleet in the Azores |
| 39% | BENJONSON | 9 | Author of stage plays The Alchemist and Volpone who died in 1637 |
| 39% | LYNNE | 5 | Author of the novels The Indian in the Cupboard and The L-Shaped Room |
| 38% | GEORGE | 6 | & 23A Author of the novels The Nether World and Workers in the Dawn |
| 38% | BRAUTIGAN | 9 | Richard —, author of the novels In Watermelon Sugar and Trout Fishing in America |
| 38% | JONSON | 6 | Ben —, author of stage plays The Alchemist and Volpone who died in 1637 |
| 38% | DRSEUSS | 7 | Author of Cat in the Hat and Green Eggs and Ham |
| 38% | ADLER | 5 | Alfred —, Austrian psychiatrist; author of The Neurotic Character and The Practice and Theory of Individual Psychology |
| 38% | PICO | 4 | ___ Iyer, author of "The Lady and the Monk" |
| 37% | HENRY | 5 | & 12D Author of novels Hunt the Slipper and Brothers in Law |
| 37% | BENOKRI | 7 | Author of novels The Famished Road and In Arcadia |
| 37% | NEILSIMON | 9 | Author of play and movie Barefoot in the Park |
| 37% | MASON | 5 | A E W —, author of the novels The Prisoner in the Opal and The Four Feathers |
| 37% | LAURALIPPMAN | 12 | Author of the 2019 novel "Lady in the Lake," which was adapted into an Apple TV+ miniseries starring 19-Across and 34-Across (2 wds.) |
| 37% | WILBURSMITH | 11 | Author of novels The Leopard Hunts in Darkness and The Eye of the Tiger |
| 37% | OSBORNE | 7 | John —, author of stage plays Look Back in Anger and The Entertainer |
| 37% | AMOSOZ | 6 | Author of novels My Michael and Panther in the Basement |
| 36% | DESAI | 5 | Anita —, author of the novels In Custody and The Village by the Sea |
| 36% | NEIL | 4 | & 12D Author of stage plays Barefoot in the Park and The Dinner Party |
| 36% | BESTALL | 7 | Alfred —, author and illustrator, from 1935, of the Rupert Bear tales |
| 36% | TENNYSON | 8 | English poet Alfred who wrote The Lady of Shalott |