| 100% | PAUL | 4 | Apostle who wrote "Ye see how large a letter I have written" |
| 35% | SEEGER | 6 | Pete who co-wrote "If I Had a Hammer" |
| 35% | CLXIV | 5 | How a Roman might have written 164 |
| 34% | LOUISEGLUCK | 11 | Literature Nobelist who wrote “The great thing / is not having / a mind. Feelings: / oh, I have those; they / govern me” |
| 33% | HORACE | 6 | Poet who wrote "I have executed a memorial longer lasting than bronze" |
| 33% | AUTHOR | 6 | A person who has written a book |
| 33% | JOANRIVERS | 10 | Who said "I have a wonderful psychiatrist that I see maybe once a year, because I don't need it. It all comes out onstage" |
| 32% | NIN | 3 | Novelist who wrote "I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living" |
| 32% | AGEE | 4 | Jon who wrote and illustrated "Go Hang a Salami! I'm a Lasagna Hog!" |
| 31% | TALESE | 6 | Gay who wrote "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold" |
| 31% | OLSEN | 5 | Novelist Tillie who wrote "Tell Me a Riddle" |
| 31% | TRINI | 5 | Lopez who sang "If I Had a Hammer" |
| 31% | DANZA | 5 | Actor Tony who wrote the memoir "I'd Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had: My Year as a Rookie Teacher at Northeast High" |
| 31% | EDNA | 4 | Buchanan who wrote "The Corpse Had a Familiar Face" |
| 31% | HALE | 4 | Sarah Josepha ___, who wrote "Mary Had a Little Lamb" |
| 31% | KAHN | 4 | Gus who wrote "Dream a Little Dream of Me" |
| 31% | ALLIN | 5 | How a poker player says "I bet everything I have": 2 wds. |
| 30% | ENO | 3 | Musician who wrote a May 2025 open letter to Microsoft |
| 30% | ALLIN | 5 | How a poker player says "I'll bet everything I have!": 2 wds. |
| 30% | CHAST | 5 | The New Yorker cartoonist who wrote "What I Hate: From A to Z" |
| 30% | SHAW | 4 | Playwright who wrote "Walk! Not bloody likely. I am going in a taxi" |
| 30% | NASH | 4 | Humorist who wrote "Happiness is having a scratch for every itch" |
| 30% | ALDA | 4 | Actor Alan who wrote "If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?" |
| 30% | GEORGIAOKEEFFE | 14 | Painter who said "To see takes time, like to have a friend takes time" |
| 30% | JOHN | 4 | With 19-Down, mustachioed libertarian pundit who wrote the book “Give Me a Break” |
| 30% | TALESE | 6 | Gay who wrote the 1966 Esquire profile “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold” |
| 29% | WITNESS | 7 | A person who has seen an event, usually a crime |
| 29% | CIARDI | 6 | John who wrote the textbook "How Does a Poem Mean?" |
| 29% | JADED | 5 | Having a "Ho-hum, I've seen that already" attitude |
| 29% | POE | 3 | Who wrote "All that we see or seem / Is but a dream within a dream" |