| 100% | TORME | 5 | Co-writer of "The Christmas Song" |
| 77% | TORME | 5 | "The Christmas Song" co-writer |
| 76% | EVERLY | 6 | Either co-writer of the song “Cathy’s Clown” |
| 76% | TORME | 5 | "The Christmas Song" co-writer Mel |
| 73% | LYRICIST | 8 | The writer of the words of a song |
| 71% | BOBDYLAN | 8 | Writer of Civil Rights songs in the 1960s |
| 69% | IRVINGBERLIN | 12 | Composer of the songs White Christmas and God Bless America |
| 68% | TORME | 5 | "The Christmas Song" co-composer |
| 68% | MELTORME | 8 | Composer of "The Christmas Song" |
| 68% | TWELFTH | 7 | In song, the last day of Christmas |
| 65% | GEESE | 5 | Birds given on the sixth day of Christmas, in song |
| 65% | DRUMMERS | 8 | Gifts given on the 12th day of Christmas, in song |
| 63% | LENIN | 5 | Writer of the "April Theses" |
| 63% | TACITUS | 7 | Writer of the ethnography "Germania" |
| 63% | QUILLPEN | 8 | Writer of the Magna Carta |
| 62% | IRVINGBERLIN | 12 | Composer of the song "White Christmas" who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977: 2 wds. |
| 62% | OAKIE | 5 | "Song of the Islands" co-star Jack |
| 62% | SHAKESPEARE | 11 | Writer of The Merchant of Venice |
| 62% | JAMESJOYCE | 10 | Writer of the 1918 play "Exiles" |
| 62% | ALANMOORE | 9 | Writer of the graphic novel "Watchmen" |
| 62% | AGASSI | 6 | Writer of the 2009 autobiography "Open" |
| 62% | ELIOT | 5 | "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" writer, who later received the Nobel Prize |
| 62% | WHITE | 5 | What the color of Bing Crosby's Christmas is, in a 1942 song? |
| 61% | WHARTON | 7 | Writer of The Age of Innocence, Edith |
| 61% | GOGOL | 5 | Writer of the short story "The Overcoat" |
| 61% | LIVY | 4 | Writer of the history "Ab Urbe Condita" |
| 61% | OVID | 4 | Writer of the 644-line poem "Ibis" |
| 61% | STRAUSS | 7 | Writer of the opera Der Rosenkavalier, Richard __ |
| 61% | LINDGREN | 8 | Writer of the Pippi Longstocking series, Astrid __ |
| 61% | DAPHNE | 6 | Writer of The Loving Spirit, du Maurier |