| 100% | SKAUFMAN | 8 | American playwright George ___ who shared the Pulitzer Prize with Moss Hart for "You Can't Take It With You": 2 wds. |
| 37% | FRANKCAPRA | 10 | Best Director Oscar winner for You Can't Take It With You |
| 37% | FRANK | 5 | & 22A Best Director Oscar winner for You Can't Take It With You |
| 37% | CAPRA | 5 | Best Director winner for "You Can't Take It With You" |
| 35% | IRS | 3 | Org. for Charles Lane's character in You Can't Take It With You (1938) |
| 35% | GEORGEPSMITH | 12 | American biologist who shared one half of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Gregory P. Winter, for work on phage display: 3 wds. |
| 35% | SYLVIAPLATH | 11 | American poet and novelist who won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for "The Collected Poems" in 1982: 2 wds. |
| 35% | RICHARDWILBUR | 13 | American poet behind "Things of This World" who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1957 and 1989: 2 wds. |
| 34% | SAMSHEPARD | 10 | Playwright whose "Buried Child" won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979: 2 wds. |
| 34% | ROBERTFROST | 11 | American poet behind "A Witness Tree" who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1924, 1931, 1937 and 1943: 2 wds. |
| 34% | MICHAELPHELPS | 13 | American swimmer who holds the all-time record for Olympic gold medals with 23 wins: 2 wds. |
| 34% | DAVIDMAMET | 10 | Playwright whose "Glengarry Glen Ross" won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1984: 2 wds. |
| 34% | RICHARDPOWERS | 13 | American novelist whose novel "The Overstory" won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2019: 2 wds. |
| 33% | ESTATE | 6 | You can't take it with you |
| 33% | AMYVANDYKEN | 11 | American former swimmer who shares the second spot for most number of Olympic gold medals for a female swimmer with 17a: 3 wds. |
| 33% | DONNATARTT | 10 | Mississippi novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2014 (2 wds.) |
| 33% | THORNTONWILDER | 14 | "Our Town" playwright who won Pulitzer Prizes for both Drama and Fiction: 2 wds. |
| 32% | AUGUSTWILSON | 12 | Playwright whose "Fences" and "The Piano Lesson" won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1987 and 1990: 2 wds. |
| 32% | LORNEMICHAELS | 13 | "SNL" producer who won the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2004: 2 wds. |
| 32% | NADIAMURAD | 10 | Iraqi Yazidi human rights activist who shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 2018 with Congolese gynecologist Denis Mukwege: 2 wds. |
| 32% | CAREY | 5 | With 31-Across, Canadiens goalie who won the Hart Memorial Trophy for the 2014-2015 season: 2 wds. |
| 32% | STEPHENCOLBERT | 14 | American late night show host who wrote the book "I Am America (And So Can You!)": 2 wds. |
| 32% | CAMILACABELLO | 13 | "Señorita" singer who shared the 2019 MTV Video Music Award for Best Collaboration with 18-Across (2 wds.) |
| 32% | SHAWNMENDES | 11 | "Señorita" singer who shared the 2019 MTV Video Music Award for Best Collaboration with 32-Across (2 wds.) |
| 32% | JEANARTHUR | 10 | "You Can't Take It With You" star |
| 32% | TOMHEINSOHN | 11 | American retired professional basketball player who won 8 NBA championships with the Boston Celtics and coached the team for 9 seasons: 2 wds. |
| 32% | FRANK | 5 | "You Can't Take It with You" director Capra |
| 32% | CAPRA | 5 | "You Can't Take It With You" director, 1938 |
| 32% | BARTOLOCOLON | 12 | Dominican pitcher who, last August, set the record for most wins by a Latin American pitcher with 246: 2 wds. |