| 100% | MOTEN | 5 | Fred who wrote “In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition” |
| 43% | SEALE | 5 | Bobby who wrote “Seize the Time: The Story of The Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton” |
| 43% | OLD | 3 | ___ school (someone who believes in traditions of the past) |
| 41% | ERASMUS | 7 | Who wrote "In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king" |
| 41% | ENGELS | 6 | Friedrich ___, German political scientist who wrote "The Condition of the Working Class in England" |
| 40% | GOODONE | 7 | Jane who wrote "In the Shadow of Man" |
| 40% | TOLKIEN | 7 | Author who wrote "Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards" |
| 40% | ABBOTT | 6 | Jack who wrote "In the Belly of the Beast" |
| 40% | ERASMUS | 7 | Who wrote "In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king" |
| 40% | ELIOT | 5 | Poet who wrote "In the room the women come and go / Talking of Michelangelo" |
| 40% | DENNINGS | 8 | Kat ___, actress who plays Max Black in the sitcom "2 Broke Girls" |
| 39% | ERMA | 4 | Bombeck who wrote If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits? |
| 39% | RONNIEJAMESDIO | 14 | Black Sabbath lead singer who wrote the 2021 memoir "Rainbow in the Dark" (3 wds.) |
| 39% | NERUDA | 6 | Pablo ___, author of "Canto General" who wrote in green ink as he considered it the color of hope |
| 39% | JOHNLEGEND | 10 | "All of Me" singer who wrote a song in "SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical": 2 wds. |
| 39% | JENNABUSHHAGER | 14 | Daughter of the 43rd president who wrote "Everything Beautiful in Its Time": 3 wds. |
| 38% | CLEMENT | 7 | Jemaine ___, "Men in Black 3" actor who portrays Dr. Ian Garvin in "Avatar: The Way of Water" |
| 38% | JACK | 4 | ___ Black, "School of Rock" actor who voices Bowser in the 2023 film "Super Mario Bros. Movie" |
| 38% | HOWARD | 6 | John —, prison reformer who wrote 1777 book The State of Prisons in England and Wales |
| 38% | INGE | 4 | William who wrote "The Dark at the Top of the Stairs" |
| 38% | ICECUBE | 7 | Rapper who stars in the 2025 movie War of the Worlds |
| 38% | EZRA | 4 | Pound who wrote "In a Station of the Metro" |
| 38% | GRANDY | 6 | Fred ___, actor turned politician who became a member of the US House of Representatives from Iowa in 1986 |
| 38% | BAIN | 4 | Donald who wrote a 1963 "memoir" seen in the first words of 17-, 30-, 46- and 60-Across |
| 38% | GAELS | 5 | Ones who wrote in the Ogham alphabet |
| 38% | ERASMUS | 7 | Dutch philosopher who wrote "In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king" |
| 37% | ALANALDA | 8 | Hawkeye Pierce portrayer who wrote, directed, and starred in the final episode of "M*A*S*H" (2 wds.) |
| 37% | OZZYOSBOURNE | 12 | Black Sabbath singer who voices Thrash, former king of the Hard Rock Trolls, in "Trolls World Tour": 2 wds. |
| 37% | YANNI | 5 | Composer Chryssomallis, who wrote "Seven Billion Dreams" in 2015 for NASA's 15th anniversary of the ISS |
| 37% | CAMPION | 7 | Albert —, detective creation of Margery Allingham who first appeared in 1929 novel The Crime At Black Dudley |