| 100% | CSLEWIS | 7 | Author who wrote "Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again" |
| 40% | MILNE | 5 | Author who wrote "Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?" |
| 40% | MILNE | 5 | Children's author who wrote "Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?" |
| 36% | AAMILNE | 7 | Author who wrote "Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them" |
| 33% | ONCEUPONATIME | 13 | Words you would use to start a fairy tale?: 4 wds. |
| 31% | MINORS | 6 | Young people who are not old enough to vote |
| 29% | SUE | 3 | Author Grafton who wrote books from "A Is for Alibi" to "Y Is for Yesterday" |
| 29% | OVID | 4 | Poet who wrote "If you want to be loved, be lovable" |
| 29% | MILNE | 5 | Children's author who wrote "People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day" |
| 29% | HAGS | 4 | Witches from fairy tales, who were old ___: Plural |
| 28% | DONT | 4 | "___ you cry, I'll be back again some day" ("Frosty" lyric) |
| 28% | SEUSS | 5 | Children's author who wrote "There is no one alive who is you-er than you!" |
| 28% | SCHOOLAGE | 9 | Old enough to start kindergarten |
| 27% | EVERAFTER | 9 | "Happily ___," words you would use to end a fairy tale?: 2 wds. |
| 27% | GRACEPALEY | 10 | Author and activist who wrote, “It is the poet’s responsibility to learn the truth from the powerless” |
| 26% | TONICADEBAMBARA | 15 | Author who wrote, “The dream is real, my friends. The failure to make it work is the unreality,” in “The Salt Eaters” |
| 26% | AERO | 4 | Old Polish airline started in 1925 that was merged in 1928 to form present day Polish carrier LOT |
| 26% | CARDED | 6 | Verified to be old enough to enter |
| 26% | SARTRE | 6 | Author who wrote “Hell is other people” |
| 26% | POE | 3 | Who wrote "I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him" |
| 26% | DARE | 4 | Be brave enough to read out |
| 26% | 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” |
| 26% | DRSEUSS | 7 | Who wrote "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not" |
| 26% | RUMI | 4 | Celebrated Persian poet who authored "Masnavi" and is considered to be one of the most widely read poets |
| 25% | PLATH | 5 | Poet who wrote "I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am" |
| 25% | AUSTEN | 6 | Author who wrote "Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance" |
| 25% | TWAIN | 5 | Author who said, "Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any" |
| 25% | HERO | 4 | *Person who saves the day... and a word you may use to describe those being celebrated in this puzzle |
| 25% | MILNE | 5 | Who wrote, in a classic children's book, "It is hard to be brave ... when you're only a Very Small Animal" |
| 25% | UPON | 4 | *Pick the words to start a fairy tale! "Once ___ a time ..." |