| 100% | DAHL | 4 | Author who wrote about James, Charlie and Matilda |
| 58% | ROALDDAHL | 9 | Author who wrote about giant peaches and foxes |
| 51% | SEUSS | 5 | Author who wrote about Octember |
| 50% | WILLA | 5 | Author who wrote about frontier life |
| 49% | BAUM | 4 | Author who wrote about the Land of Oz |
| 49% | TESS | 4 | Author Gerritsen who writes about the crime-solving duo of Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles |
| 48% | NICKHORNBY | 10 | British author who wrote "About a Boy," 16-Across, and 31-Across (2 wds.) |
| 47% | ROALD | 5 | Writer who created Charlie, James, and Matilda |
| 46% | TSELIOT | 7 | Poet who wrote about Grizabella and Mungojerrie |
| 45% | ROALD | 5 | Author Dahl who wrote "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" |
| 44% | AMOSOZ | 6 | Israeli author who wrote "A Tale of Love and Darkness" |
| 44% | ROALDDAHL | 9 | Author who created James and the Giant Peach |
| 44% | NOAM | 4 | Author Chomsky who writes about linguistics |
| 43% | DAHL | 4 | Roald who wrote Fantastic Mr. Fox and Matilda |
| 43% | MILNE | 5 | Author who wrote "Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?" |
| 43% | ERNEST | 6 | Literature Nobelist who wrote about Zelda, Gertrude, and Sylvia |
| 42% | ASHLEYELSTON | 12 | "10 Blind Dates" author who wrote 18-Across and 32-Across (2 wds.) |
| 42% | JOYCE | 5 | Author James who wrote "Ulysses" |
| 42% | ZOLA | 4 | French author who wrote, “Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it” |
| 41% | DAHL | 4 | Author Roald who created Matilda and Willy Wonka |
| 41% | GILLIANFLYNN | 12 | Author who wrote the novels from which 17-Across and 29-/31-Across were adapted: 2 wds. |
| 41% | RUDYARDKIPLING | 14 | English author who wrote the children's literature at 18- and 41-Across: 2 wds. |
| 41% | ROALD | 5 | Novelist Dahl who wrote "Matilda" and "James and the Giant Peach" |
| 41% | ROALDDAHL | 9 | Author of Matilda and James and the Giant Peach |
| 41% | BEVERLY | 7 | Author Cleary who wrote "Beezus and Ramona" |
| 41% | GAIMAN | 6 | Author Neil who wrote Coraline and Stardust |
| 41% | MILNE | 5 | Children's author who wrote "Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?" |
| 40% | ERICAJONG | 9 | Author who wrote "Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man" |
| 40% | ALGER | 5 | Horatio who wrote about down-and-out boys |
| 40% | KARENBLIXEN | 11 | Danish author who wrote 17-Across and 30-Across under the pen name Isak Dinesen (2 wds.) |