| 100% | DANTE | 5 | Author of the famous line "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here" |
| 54% | DANTE | 5 | "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here" poet |
| 52% | ABANDON | 7 | __ hope all ye who enter here, Dante said of Hell |
| 49% | DANTE | 5 | "All hope abandon, ye who enter here!" writer |
| 49% | ABANDON | 7 | "___ all hope, ye who enter here" |
| 43% | ALL | 3 | "Abandon hope, ___ ye who enter here" |
| 42% | HOPE | 4 | "Abandon all ___, ye who enter here" |
| 41% | ENTER | 5 | "All hope abandon, ye who ____ here!" |
| 38% | ENTER | 5 | ''Abandon hope, all ye who ___ here'' |
| 38% | SEUSS | 5 | Author of the line "There is no one alive who is you-er than you" |
| 35% | PSALMS | 6 | Source of the line "Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands" |
| 34% | BARACKOBAMA | 11 | Former US President who authored the book "The Audacity of Hope": 2 wds. |
| 34% | NERUDA | 6 | Pablo ___, author of "Canto General" who wrote in green ink as he considered it the color of hope |
| 33% | BOCCACCIO | 9 | Author of the Decameron and “On Famous Women” |
| 32% | DEE | 3 | Author of the 2024 memoir "What Have We Here?," Billy ___ Williams |
| 32% | PUZO | 4 | Author of the line "It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes" |
| 31% | REMARQUE | 8 | Author of All Quiet on the Western Front |
| 31% | SOPHIEHANNAH | 12 | Author of the novels A Game for All the Family and Little Face |
| 31% | JOHNUPDIKE | 10 | Author of the Rabbit series who wrote the 1988 novel "S.": 2 wds. |
| 31% | ORR | 3 | Author of the short story on which All About Eve was based, Mary ___ |
| 31% | SNOW | 4 | C P —, author of the novels Homecomings and Time of Hope |
| 31% | REMARQUE | 8 | Author of All Quiet On The Western Front, Erich __ |
| 31% | SUEGRAFTON | 10 | Author of the Kinsey Millhone mysteries who wrote the 2015 novel "X": 2 wds. |
| 31% | SNEEDS | 6 | Golfer Ed who lost the very first Masters sudden-death playoff and author Christine who wrote "The Virginity of Famous Men" |
| 31% | RAMDASS | 7 | LSD pioneer and author of the New Age classic “Be Here Now” |
| 30% | 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% | HOWAR | 5 | Author Barbara of "Laughing All the Way" |
| 30% | SOPHIEKINSELLA | 14 | Author of the "Shopaholic" novels who also wrote stand-alone novels as Madeleine Wickham: 2 wds. |
| 30% | FAIREST | 7 | "... who's the ___ of them all?" |
| 30% | BENJONSON | 9 | Author of stage plays The Alchemist and Volpone who died in 1637 |