| 100% | HOYLE | 5 | Edmond who wrote a treatise on the game of whist |
| 46% | OGDEN | 5 | Nash who wrote "A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" |
| 42% | IDLE | 4 | Monty Python member Eric who wrote "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography" |
| 42% | LEY | 3 | Writer Willy who wrote "The Conquest of Space" ('49) and for whom a crater is named on the far side of the moon |
| 41% | INSCRIBE | 8 | Write a personal note on the title page of |
| 40% | MALTHUS | 7 | Economist who wrote "An Essay on the Principle of Population," 1798 |
| 40% | EZRA | 4 | Pound who wrote "In a Station of the Metro" |
| 40% | ERICIDLE | 8 | Who wrote and sang "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" |
| 39% | RICHARDDAWSON | 13 | "Family Feud" host who was a regular panelist on the 1970s version of "Match Game": 2 wds. |
| 39% | INTHEBIGINNING | 14 | The Bible on a climactic part of a baseball game? |
| 38% | ANNE | 4 | Rice who wrote the upcoming book "Blood Communion: A Tale of Prince Lestat" |
| 38% | ALLEN | 5 | ___ Ginsberg, poet who wrote "Howl" and a major figure of the Beat Generation |
| 38% | ALEC | 4 | Guinness who wrote “My Name Escapes Me: The Diary of a Retiring Actor” |
| 38% | HUME | 4 | Philosopher who wrote "A Treatise of Human Nature" |
| 38% | RULES | 5 | Instructions printed on the box of a board game |
| 38% | FACT | 4 | Something written on the underside of a Snapple cap |
| 38% | BAIN | 4 | Donald who wrote a 1963 "memoir" seen in the first words of 17-, 30-, 46- and 60-Across |
| 38% | DALY | 4 | Actor Tim who plays a football team owner on the revival of "The Game" |
| 38% | DARIN | 5 | Strauss who wrote the 2020 novel "The Queen of Tuesday: A Lucille Ball Story" |
| 38% | KYRA | 4 | Actress Sedgwick who has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame |
| 38% | JONIMITCHELL | 12 | "Both Sides Now" singer-songwriter who wrote "Morning Glory on the Vine," a book of poetry and drawings (2 wds.) |
| 38% | TRON | 4 | Arcade game based on a film of the same name |
| 38% | ROOFER | 6 | Person who fixes the tiles on top of a house |
| 38% | XXX | 3 | Letters written on a bottle of poison, in the cartoons |
| 38% | ALGREN | 6 | Nelson who wrote "A Walk on the Wild Side" |
| 38% | WARSANSHIRE | 11 | Poet who wrote "no one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark" |
| 37% | ABBE | 4 | Singer Lane, who has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame |
| 37% | ODIE | 4 | Yellow dog of the comics who's on a Pez dispenser |
| 37% | HUME | 4 | Philosopher David who wrote "A Treatise of Human Nature" |
| 37% | COVERSTAR | 9 | Celeb who appears on the front of a magazine |