| 100% | ADAMSMITH | 9 | Economist who wrote about an "invisible hand" |
| 48% | MALTHUS | 7 | Economist who wrote "An Essay on the Principle of Population," 1798 |
| 44% | EDMOND | 6 | Rostand who wrote about Cyrano |
| 44% | EDA | 3 | LeShan who wrote about children |
| 44% | LEY | 3 | Willy ___ who wrote about rockets |
| 44% | SEUSS | 5 | Author who wrote about Octember |
| 44% | AMORIST | 7 | Someone who writes about love |
| 43% | WILLA | 5 | Author who wrote about frontier life |
| 43% | NOAM | 4 | Author Chomsky who writes about linguistics |
| 43% | VEBLEN | 6 | Economist who wrote "The Theory of the Leisure Class" |
| 43% | KRUGMAN | 7 | Nobel-winning economist who wrote "Fuzzy Math" |
| 43% | ZANE | 4 | Grey who wrote about the Old West |
| 43% | OVID | 4 | Roman poet who wrote about 33-Across |
| 43% | MASTERS | 7 | __ and Johnson, scientists who wrote about sex |
| 43% | AESOP | 5 | Greek writer who wrote about talking animals |
| 43% | ENID | 4 | Blyton who wrote about the Famous Five |
| 43% | HEIDEGGER | 9 | German philosopher Martin, who wrote about Dasein |
| 43% | TSELIOT | 7 | Poet who wrote about Grizabella and Mungojerrie |
| 43% | ROUSSEAU | 8 | Philosopher who wrote about a social contract |
| 42% | ALGER | 5 | Horatio who wrote about down-and-out boys |
| 42% | BAUM | 4 | Author who wrote about the Land of Oz |
| 42% | ORWELL | 6 | George who wrote about Big Brother in 1984 |
| 42% | ROALDDAHL | 9 | Author who wrote about giant peaches and foxes |
| 42% | DAHL | 4 | Author who wrote about James, Charlie and Matilda |
| 42% | ANNALIST | 8 | Writer who writes about the year's events |
| 41% | KEYNES | 6 | Economist who wrote “The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money” |
| 41% | HUSBAND | 7 | Oscar Wilde wrote about An Ideal one in 1895 |
| 41% | PISA | 4 | Leonardo of ___ (mathematician who wrote about the 33-Across) |
| 41% | NIETZSCHE | 9 | German philosopher who wrote about the "will to power" |
| 41% | HERODOTUS | 9 | Father of history who wrote about the Persian Wars |