| 100% | SEUSS | 5 | Dr. who wrote "I like nonsense. It wakes up the brain cells" |
| 48% | NONSENSE | 8 | Dr. Seuss said this wakes up the brain cells |
| 48% | NONSENSE | 8 | Dr. Seuss likes this, "it wakes up brain cells" |
| 34% | PRYOR | 5 | Comic who said "I'm not addicted to cocaine. I just like the way it smells" |
| 33% | ALARM | 5 | It wakes you up in the morning |
| 33% | JUDYBLUME | 9 | Novelist who wrote "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret" and the other three frequently banned books in this puzzle (2 wds.) |
| 32% | SARTRE | 6 | Who wrote "I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating" |
| 32% | TANEHISI | 8 | Coates who wrote "Between the World and Me" |
| 32% | ELIOT | 5 | Poet who wrote, “Let us go then, you and I, / When the evening is spread out against the sky / Like a patient etherized upon a table” |
| 32% | DANZA | 5 | Actor Tony who wrote the memoir "I'd Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had: My Year as a Rookie Teacher at Northeast High" |
| 31% | ABBIE | 5 | Hoffman who wrote "Revolution for the Hell of It" |
| 31% | ELIOT | 5 | Poet who wrote "Do I dare / Disturb the universe?" |
| 31% | COATES | 6 | Ta-Nehisi who wrote Between the World and Me |
| 31% | HEIDI | 5 | Schreck who wrote "What the Constitution Means to Me" |
| 31% | TSELIOT | 7 | Poet who wrote "Do I dare / Disturb the universe?" |
| 31% | NERUDA | 6 | Poet who wrote "Tonight I can write the saddest lines" |
| 31% | NASH | 4 | Poet who wrote "Behold the duck / It does not cluck" |
| 31% | BYRON | 5 | Poet who wrote "She walks in beauty, like the night" |
| 31% | PIKE | 4 | American author Christopher ___ who wrote the "Remember Me" book series |
| 31% | MAYAANGELOU | 11 | Poet who wrote the memoir "Mom & Me & Mom" (2 wds.) |
| 31% | MARA | 4 | Actress Wilson who wrote the memoir "Where Am I Now?" |
| 31% | TYSON | 5 | Cicely who wrote the 2021 memoir "Just As I Am" |
| 30% | BLUME | 5 | Judy who wrote "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret" |
| 30% | TYSON | 5 | Actress Cicely who wrote the 2021 memoir "Just As I Am" |
| 30% | NASAL | 5 | Like the voice of someone who's stuffed up |
| 30% | BACH | 4 | Who said "I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music" |
| 30% | CARDIB | 6 | Up, I Like It and Be Careful rapper |
| 30% | MICHAELSTIPE | 12 | Singer who came up with "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" in his sleep: 2 wds. |
| 30% | COATES | 6 | Ta-Nehisi who wrote the best seller "Between the World and Me" |
| 30% | CHELSEAHANDLER | 14 | Comedian who wrote the memoir “Life Will Be the Death of Me” |