| 100% | CHARLOTTESWEB | 13 | Children's classic with the line "It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer" |
| 79% | CHARLOTTESWEB | 13 | Children's classic by 50-Across with the line, "It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer" (2 wds.) |
| 77% | BOTH | 4 | "It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was ___," famous last line of "Charlotte's Web" |
| 30% | STILLIRISE | 10 | Classic poem with the lines "Leaving behind nights of terror and fear ... Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear" |
| 30% | ARGO | 4 | Best Picture winner with the line "If I'm doing a fake movie, it's gonna be a fake hit" |
| 29% | LEAR | 4 | King with the immortal line "Who is it that can tell me who I am?" |
| 29% | ATLAST | 6 | Etta James classic with the lines, "My love has come along / My lonely days are over" |
| 29% | TONI | 4 | Morrison who said "A writer's life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity" |
| 29% | FROG | 4 | "___ and Toad are Friends," children's book that features a memorable friendship between the titular characters |
| 29% | ATLAST | 6 | Etta James classic with the lines, "My love has come along / My lonely days are over" (2 wds.) |
| 29% | IROBOT | 6 | Classic 1950 book with the line "It's your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion" |
| 29% | GLASSJAW | 8 | A boxer who is not good at taking it on the chin |
| 28% | DANTON | 6 | Georges who was a key member of the Jacobin Club, along with Robespierre and Marat |
| 28% | ROD | 3 | I am a fisherman's best friend. I help them pull the fish once it's hooked. Who am I? |
| 28% | DRSEUSS | 7 | Who wrote "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not" |
| 28% | NEDFLANDERS | 11 | "The Simpsons" character who is portrayed as a good neighbour with his wife Maude and two children, Rod and Todd: 2 wds. |
| 28% | ANGER | 5 | "Inside Out" emotion who says "We should lock the door and scream that curse word we know. It's a good one!" |
| 28% | OKRA | 4 | Someone who loves it might be called a friend of the pod |
| 27% | BANKSY | 6 | Anonymous graffiti artist who wrote, “A wall is a very big weapon. It’s one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with” |
| 27% | AHERO | 5 | "__ is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom": Dylan |
| 27% | POE | 3 | Poet who wrote the line "But we loved with a love that was more than love" |
| 27% | RYANSTILES | 10 | "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" cast member who is not a fan of the Hoedown game (2 wds.) |
| 27% | MARK | 4 | ___ Twain, famous author who was friends with the scientist Nikola Tesla and often spent time in his lab |
| 26% | ARCHER | 6 | Jeffrey ___, "Kane and Abel" author whose last name sounds like someone who is good with a bow and arrow |
| 26% | ELFFUR | 6 | ... Looking back on it, I'm glad I bought that and not the ___. Luxurious Santa is a bad look!
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| 26% | WAR | 3 | 1970 #1 hit with the line "What is it good for?" |
| 26% | HOMERSIMPSON | 12 | TV character who says "It's 1 a.m. Better go home and spend some quality time with the kids" |
| 26% | JOCELYNALO | 10 | Softball player who won two National Championships with the Oklahoma Sooners and who was honored with a Best College Athlete, Women's Sports ESPY Award in 2022 (2 wds.) |
| 26% | NATIVESON | 9 | Best-selling 1940 novel that was adapted into a film, with its author playing the protagonist, in 1951 |
| 26% | JACKBLACK | 9 | "The House with a Clock in Its Walls" actor who is also a musician and is famous for his role in "Gulliver's Travels": 2 wds |