| 100% | ENO | 3 | Brian who wrote the score for "Me and Earl and the Dying Girl" |
| 50% | MANN | 4 | Actor Thomas of "Me and Earl and the Dying Girl" |
| 41% | CROZIER | 7 | Brian who wrote "The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire" |
| 41% | TINA | 4 | Fey who wrote the dialogue for the "Mean Girls" Broadway musical |
| 41% | COATES | 6 | Ta-Nehisi who wrote the best seller "Between the World and Me" |
| 39% | SARA | 4 | Bareilles who wrote the music and lyrics for Broadway's "Waitress" |
| 39% | THE | 3 | "Me and Earl and ___ Dying Girl" |
| 39% | NEIL | 4 | ___ Young, famed Canadian singer-songwriter of CSNY, who also wrote the score for the film "Dead Man" |
| 38% | EARL | 4 | "Me and ___ and the Dying Girl" |
| 37% | EARL | 4 | "Me and ___ and the Dying Girl" (2015 movie) |
| 37% | EARL | 4 | "Me and ___ and the Dying Girl" (2015 film) |
| 37% | KGB | 3 | Employer of the Bond girl in "The Spy Who Loved Me," for short |
| 35% | CONTI | 5 | Bill who composed the score for "Rocky" |
| 35% | AUDEN | 5 | Poet who wrote "For the Time Being" and "Another Time" |
| 35% | MAMET | 5 | David who wrote the screenplay for "The Verdict" |
| 34% | WEILL | 5 | Kurt who wrote the music for "The Threepenny Opera" |
| 34% | TRACYMORGAN | 11 | Brian Fellow portrayer on "SNL" who wrote the memoir "I Am the New Black": 2 wds. |
| 34% | CARTLAND | 8 | English author Barbara, who wrote "The Wicked Marquis", and is referenced in the Guinness World Records for most novels published in a year |
| 34% | NEIL | 4 | With 15-Across, "How I Met Your Mother" actor who won a 2014 Tony Award for starring in "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" |
| 34% | NORA | 4 | Ephron who wrote the screenplay for "When Harry Met Sally ..." |
| 34% | POE | 3 | Who wrote of "sorrow for the lost Lenore" |
| 34% | SPICEGIRLS | 10 | A hugely popular girl group who were responsible for the hit songs "Wannabe" and "2 Become 1" |
| 34% | NATE | 4 | Statistician Silver who wrote the book "The Signal and the Noise" |
| 34% | KASDAN | 6 | Lawrence who wrote the screenplay for "Raiders of the Lost Ark" |
| 34% | SARA | 4 | Singer Bareilles who wrote the music for the Broadway show "Waitress" |
| 34% | AARON | 5 | Sorkin who wrote the screenplay for the upcoming film "Steve Jobs" |
| 34% | YUL | 3 | Actor Brynner who won an Oscar for "The King and I" |
| 33% | TINA | 4 | Fey, who wrote the movie Mean Girls |
| 33% | URIS | 4 | Novelist who wrote the screenplay for "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral" |
| 33% | JAIME | 5 | Catalan composer ___ Nunó, who wrote the music for the Mexican national anthem |