| 100% | MILNE | 5 | Author who wrote "Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?" |
| 98% | MILNE | 5 | Children's author who wrote "Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?" |
| 73% | MILNE | 5 | Writer of the line "Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?" |
| 48% | CSLEWIS | 7 | Author who wrote "Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again" |
| 38% | DROPMEALINE | 11 | "Don't forget to write," and what you must do in 13-, 24- and 43-Across |
| 36% | EARTHA | 6 | Kitt who said, "A man comes into my life and I have to compromise? You must think about that one again" |
| 35% | AAMILNE | 7 | Author who wrote "Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them" |
| 35% | ZOOLANDER | 9 | Film character who asks "Did you ever think that maybe there's more to life than being really, really, really ridiculously good-looking?" |
| 34% | ZOLA | 4 | French author who wrote, “Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it” |
| 34% | EDA | 3 | Author and educator LeShan who wrote "When Your Child Drives You Crazy" (1985) |
| 33% | ERICAJONG | 9 | Author who wrote "Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man" |
| 32% | KAFKA | 5 | Franz who wrote "I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us" |
| 32% | WONTGETFUELEDAGAIN | 18 | "Hey, what did you think when you missed that last pit stop?" [The Who, 1971] |
| 32% | GRACEPALEY | 10 | Author and activist who wrote, “It is the poet’s responsibility to learn the truth from the powerless” |
| 31% | ILSA | 4 | Character who wrote, "Richard, I cannot go with you or ever see you again. You must not ask why." |
| 31% | ODELL | 5 | Artist/author Jenny who wrote “How to Do Nothing” |
| 30% | ROALDDAHL | 9 | Author who wrote about giant peaches and foxes |
| 30% | DAHL | 4 | Author who wrote about James, Charlie and Matilda |
| 30% | SQUAREONE | 9 | Where you go to start again |
| 30% | GETCRACKING | 11 | Make a start, and what you might do to the ends of the starred answers |
| 30% | DRAW | 4 | Something you can do to the starts of 17-, 21-, 37-, 53- and 60-Across |
| 30% | DEEN | 4 | Paula ___, celebrity chef who did not go to culinary school and started off as a caterer |
| 29% | BREAK | 5 | Intermission ... or what you can do to the starts of 17-, 24-, 38-, 46- and 59-Across |
| 29% | TONIMORRISON | 12 | Author who died in 2019 and was, as David Remnick wrote, “unsparing in her depiction of people who would use language to evil ends” |
| 29% | WAS | 3 | "What did you think ___ going to happen?" |
| 29% | BEVERLY | 7 | Author Cleary who wrote "Beezus and Ramona" |
| 29% | GAIMAN | 6 | Author Neil who wrote Coraline and Stardust |
| 29% | DAN | 3 | Author ___ Brown who wrote "Inferno" and "Origin" |
| 29% | WOOLF | 5 | Author Virginia, who wrote To The Lighthouse |
| 29% | AYNRAND | 7 | Who wrote "Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think" |