| 100% | WRITER | 6 | Dance ___, professional who writes about dance performances and related ideas |
| 41% | ROALDDAHL | 9 | Author who wrote about giant peaches and foxes |
| 40% | DAHL | 4 | Author who wrote about James, Charlie and Matilda |
| 40% | MASTERS | 7 | __ and Johnson, scientists who wrote about sex |
| 40% | ERNEST | 6 | Literature Nobelist who wrote about Zelda, Gertrude, and Sylvia |
| 40% | TSELIOT | 7 | Poet who wrote about Grizabella and Mungojerrie |
| 37% | ANNE | 4 | Rice who has written about werewolves, mummies and vampires |
| 35% | TESS | 4 | Author Gerritsen who writes about the crime-solving duo of Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles |
| 35% | SET | 3 | ___ designer, professional who may design the stage for a dance performance |
| 35% | ALGER | 5 | Horatio who wrote about down-and-out boys |
| 32% | DADPOETSSOCIETY | 15 | 1989 drama about fathers who join a club to write odes and sonnets? |
| 32% | AMORIST | 7 | Someone who writes about love |
| 32% | EDMOND | 6 | Rostand who wrote about Cyrano |
| 32% | EDA | 3 | LeShan who wrote about children |
| 32% | LEY | 3 | Willy ___ who wrote about rockets |
| 32% | SEUSS | 5 | Author who wrote about Octember |
| 31% | SMITH | 5 | Patti ___, singer and songwriter who wrote the song "Dancing Barefoot" |
| 31% | ELEANOR | 7 | Catton who wrote “Birnam Wood,” about the entanglement between a billionaire and a guerrilla environmental-activism group (March, 2023) |
| 31% | SPY | 3 | Professional who might deal with bugs and plants |
| 31% | NOAM | 4 | Author Chomsky who writes about linguistics |
| 31% | WILLA | 5 | Author who wrote about frontier life |
| 31% | BRANDICHASTAIN | 14 | 1996 and 2004 US soccer Olympic gold medalist who wrote the memoir "It's Not About the Bra": 2 wds. |
| 31% | ZANE | 4 | Grey who wrote about the Old West |
| 31% | OVID | 4 | Roman poet who wrote about 33-Across |
| 31% | AESOP | 5 | Greek writer who wrote about talking animals |
| 31% | ENID | 4 | Blyton who wrote about the Famous Five |
| 31% | HEIDEGGER | 9 | German philosopher Martin, who wrote about Dasein |
| 31% | ADAMSMITH | 9 | Economist who wrote about an "invisible hand" |
| 31% | ROUSSEAU | 8 | Philosopher who wrote about a social contract |
| 31% | ERIE | 4 | Canal written about by Twain and Melville |