| 100% | FLEMING | 7 | Author Ian who created the villains at 15-, 20-, and 37-Across |
| 43% | ANON | 4 | Author of the quip at 20-, 37-, 51-, 66-, 20-, 37-, and 51-Across |
| 39% | VOLLEYBALL | 10 | Sport whose terms begin the answers at 15-, 20-, and 48-Across |
| 39% | ANTONCHEKHOV | 12 | Russian writer who created the characters played by 15-Across, 40-Across, and 45-Across in "The Seagull" |
| 38% | LOUISAMAYALCOTT | 15 | Author who created the characters named by the starts of 17-, 24-, 49- and 61-Across |
| 36% | ROALDDAHL | 9 | Author who created James and the Giant Peach |
| 35% | BEATRIXPOTTER | 13 | Author/illustrator who created the title character of 18-Across: 2 wds. |
| 34% | RUDYARDKIPLING | 14 | English author who wrote the children's literature at 18- and 41-Across: 2 wds. |
| 34% | DISNEY | 6 | Company that created the characters who develop at the starts of the starred and double-starred entries |
| 33% | LUCYLIU | 7 | 15-Across, 20-Across, and 36-Across actress who voices Master Viper in the "Kung Fu Panda" films (2 wds.) |
| 33% | ANNE | 4 | Author Rice who created the vampire Lestat |
| 33% | REX | 3 | Author Stout who created the detective Nero Wolfe |
| 32% | KALIUCHIS | 9 | 15-Across and 32-Across singer-songwriter who was honored as the Top Latin Female Artist at the 2022 Billboard Music Awards (2 wds.) |
| 32% | SARA | 4 | Author Paretsky who created the detective V.I. Warshawski |
| 32% | AYN | 3 | Author Rand who created the philosophical system called Objectivism |
| 32% | SEUSS | 5 | "Doctor" who created the Grinch and the Lorax |
| 32% | DICKENS | 7 | Author who created the Artful Dodger |
| 31% | BROSH | 5 | Allie who created the webcomic "Hyperbole and a Half" |
| 31% | ALLIE | 5 | Brosh who created the webcomic "Hyperbole and a Half" |
| 31% | MAGICEIGHTBALL | 14 | Provider of the answers at 16-, 32- and 37-Across |
| 31% | DAHL | 4 | Author Roald who created Matilda and Willy Wonka |
| 31% | VONNEGUT | 8 | Author who created the fatalistic optometrist Billy Pilgrim |
| 31% | CUSSLER | 7 | Author Clive, who created the Dirk Pitt series |
| 31% | TOLKIEN | 7 | Author who created the world of Middle Earth |
| 31% | MARYSHELLEY | 11 | Author who began writing 28-Across at the age of 18: 2 wds. |
| 31% | CHRISTIE | 8 | English author Agatha who created Hercule Poirot, and is the best-selling novelist of all time, according to the Guinness World Records |
| 30% | BACKBURNER | 10 | Place for a nonurgent issue, and what can be found at the end of 16-, 24-, 37-, or 53- Across? |
| 30% | TWAIN | 5 | Author Mark who created Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer |
| 30% | LEE | 3 | Author Harper who created Boo Radley and Atticus Finch |
| 30% | KENNETH | 7 | With 37-Across, Scottish author who wrote "The Wind in the Willows": 2 wds. |