| 100% | OCTAVIA | 7 | Butler who wrote "There's nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns" |
| 42% | NEW | 3 | "There is nothing ___ under the sun" (Ecclesiastes line) |
| 40% | ANITA | 5 | Hill who wrote “There is no way to redo 1991, but there are ways to do better,” in a Times essay on the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings |
| 40% | NEW | 3 | "There's nothing ___ under the sun" |
| 39% | MILNE | 5 | Children's author who wrote "People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day" |
| 39% | EDA | 3 | LeShan who wrote "It's Better to Be Over the Hill Than Under It" |
| 39% | LESHAN | 6 | Eda who wrote "It's Better to Be Over the Hill Than Under It" |
| 36% | SONTAG | 6 | Susan who wrote, "The writer's first job is not to have opinions but to tell the truth" |
| 36% | BEE | 3 | Comedian Samantha who wrote the memoir "I Know I Am, But What Are You?" |
| 35% | OGDEN | 5 | First name of the poet who wrote “Candy / Is dandy / But liquor / Is quicker” |
| 34% | TSELIOT | 7 | Who wrote "This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but a whimper" |
| 34% | ZOLA | 4 | French author who wrote, “Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it” |
| 34% | EWER | 4 | Some people suspect there are crocodiles living in the New York City s___s |
| 33% | BACH | 4 | Who said "I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music" |
| 33% | TRACYMORGAN | 11 | Brian Fellow portrayer on "SNL" who wrote the memoir "I Am the New Black": 2 wds. |
| 33% | OGDEN | 5 | Nash who wrote, “Some tortures are physical and some are mental / But the one that is both is dental” |
| 33% | SHEAVES | 7 | There are three under the plow on Pennsylvania's flag |
| 33% | EVA | 3 | Chen who wrote the children’s book “I Am Golden” |
| 33% | ELIOT | 5 | Poet who wrote "This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but a whimper" |
| 33% | LLCOOLJ | 7 | Rapper who wrote the kid's book "And the Winner Is ... " (3 wds.) |
| 33% | NORA | 4 | Author Roberts who wrote the new novel "Under Currents" |
| 33% | OCTAVIA | 7 | Butler who wrote “Parable of the Sower” |
| 32% | AYNRAND | 7 | Who wrote "Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think" |
| 32% | POE | 3 | Poet who wrote the line "But we loved with a love that was more than love" |
| 31% | PAINE | 5 | Tom who wrote, "These are the times that try men's souls" |
| 31% | SONNET | 6 | One of Shakespeare's begins "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun" |
| 31% | ORLEANS | 7 | The Animals lyric: There is a house in New __ |
| 31% | TSELIOT | 7 | Who wrote "April is the cruellest month" |
| 31% | PRYOR | 5 | Comedian Richard who wrote "What I'm saying might be profane, but it's also profound" |
| 31% | BROOKESHIELDS | 13 | "Suddenly Susan" actress who wrote the memoir "There Was a Little Girl" (2 wds.) |