| 100% | DEFOE | 5 | Author who did part of his work on Friday? |
| 100% | DEFOE | 5 | Author who did part of his work on Friday |
| 49% | CRUSOE | 6 | He had most of his work done by Friday |
| 41% | AUSTEN | 6 | 19th-century author who wrote "Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief" |
| 39% | ONION | 5 | Part of "the works" on burgers |
| 39% | ONION | 5 | Part of "the works" on a burger |
| 39% | DEFOE | 5 | Author who wrote on Friday? |
| 38% | CRUSOE | 6 | His work was done by Friday |
| 37% | TOLKIEN | 7 | Author who referred to his works as a "legendarium" |
| 37% | ENDING | 6 | Part of a whodunit that reveals who done it |
| 36% | WILLIAM | 7 | ___ Faulkner, author of "The Sound and the Fury" who once wrote the entire outline to a novel on his office walls |
| 36% | BRAHE | 5 | Astronomer who lost part of his nose in a duel |
| 36% | CLUES | 5 | Parts of a crossword that the constructor works on last |
| 36% | EULER | 5 | Leonhard —, 18th-century mathematician noted for his work on the calculus of variation |
| 36% | BRAHE | 5 | Astronomer who lost part of his nose in a sword duel |
| 36% | LEGDAY | 6 | Part of a gym regimen for working on quads and calves |
| 36% | OMARKHAYYAM | 11 | Persian polymath who did pioneering work on cubic equations |
| 35% | BERTHARDY | 9 | London-born photojournalist noted for his work on Picture Post magazine who died in 1995 |
| 35% | WIZKHALIF | 9 | Rapper who shares part of his name with the world's tallest building |
| 34% | BARTLETT | 8 | Author John who printed his first edition of quotations in 1855 |
| 33% | DOPPLER | 7 | Christian —, 19th-century mathematician and physicist noted for his work on the frequency of light and sound waves |
| 33% | EUCLID | 6 | Greek mathematician of Alexandria who authored the work Elements |
| 33% | DUMAS | 5 | Author who died before finishing his novel The Knight of Sainte-Hermine |
| 33% | BRAHE | 5 | Danish astronomer Tycho who lost part of his nose in a duel |
| 33% | BLUE | 4 | "Tangled Up in ___," 1975 song by Bob Dylan which is a part of his album, "Blood on the Tracks" |
| 33% | STEPHENCHBOSKY | 14 | Author who wrote the film adaptation of his own "The Perks of Being a Wallflower": 2 wds. |
| 33% | SOW | 3 | Do the first part of some field work? |
| 33% | REAP | 4 | Do the second part of some field work? |
| 33% | VERB | 4 | Doing part of speech |
| 32% | GAD | 3 | Josh who plays Shakespeare on "History of the World, Part II" |