| 100% | THURBER | 7 | Cartoonist who wrote the caption "Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?" |
| 37% | ALAN | 4 | Actor Alda who wrote the best-seller "If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?" |
| 33% | ZERO | 4 | "If you multiply me by any number, the answer will always remain the same. Who am I?" |
| 33% | ERMA | 4 | Bombeck who wrote If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits? |
| 33% | ROXIEHART | 9 | Best Picture heroine who delivers the line “I bet you want to know why I shot the bastard” |
| 31% | STEVIEWONDER | 12 | Singer who won the Oscar for Best Original Song, "Just Called to Say I Love You": 2 wds. |
| 31% | HAL | 3 | Film character who says menacingly "I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do" |
| 30% | ALDA | 4 | Alan who wrote the book "If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?" |
| 30% | BEE | 3 | Comedian Samantha who wrote the memoir "I Know I Am, But What Are You?" |
| 29% | CHAST | 5 | The New Yorker cartoonist who wrote "What I Hate: From A to Z" |
| 29% | ALISONBECHDEL | 13 | Cartoonist who wrote and illustrated the graphic memoir "Are You My Mother?" (2 wds.) |
| 29% | COATES | 6 | Ta-Nehisi who wrote the best seller "Between the World and Me" |
| 29% | ALBOM | 5 | Mitch who wrote the best seller "The Five People You Meet in Heaven" |
| 29% | DIAL | 4 | What you do when calling someone on the phone |
| 28% | ANITA | 5 | Baker who sang "Giving You the Best That I Got" |
| 28% | MISDIAL | 7 | Call the wrong number |
| 28% | TEN | 3 | Number of times you'll write "L" in the crossword, if you finish it! |
| 28% | ERMA | 4 | Bombeck who wrote "Housework, if you do it right, will kill you" |
| 27% | ARES | 4 | God who becomes the sign of the Ram if you add an I |
| 27% | TONIMORRISON | 12 | "The best American writer? The author of 'Beloved,' if you ask me." |
| 27% | SECADA | 6 | Jon who performed the Pocahontas song "If I Never Knew You" |
| 27% | STOWE | 5 | Best-selling author who wrote "I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation" |
| 27% | SPY | 3 | "The ___ Who Loved Me" (James Bond film with the theme song "Nobody Does It Better") |
| 27% | OWE | 3 | "What do I ___ you?" (what you'd ask a friend who paid the bill) |
| 27% | ILSA | 4 | Character who wrote, "Richard, I cannot go with you or ever see you again. You must not ask why." |
| 27% | LOST | 4 | "Call Me If You Get ___," album by Tyler, the Creator that won the Grammy Award for Best Rap Album in 2022 |
| 26% | PAIGE | 5 | Whom DiMaggio called ''the best I ever faced'' |
| 26% | KORDA | 5 | Michael who wrote the 1975 best seller "Power!" |
| 26% | CHALK | 5 | I am a teacher's best friend. I help them write on the blackboard. Who am I? |
| 26% | LIONELRICHIE | 12 | Singer who won the Oscar in 1986 for Best Original Song, "Say You, Say Me": 2 wds. |