| 100% | STEIN | 5 | Gertrude who wrote "We are always the same age inside" |
| 63% | AGE | 3 | "We are always the same ___ inside": Gertrude Stein |
| 42% | BRONTE | 6 | Who wrote "Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same" |
| 42% | ERMA | 4 | Bombeck who wrote "The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank" |
| 41% | PEER | 4 | ___ group (friends who are around the same age) |
| 40% | POE | 3 | Poet who wrote the line "But we loved with a love that was more than love" |
| 40% | LIONEL | 6 | Richie who wrote "We Are the World" with 10-/25-Down |
| 39% | JFK | 3 | Initials of the US president who was elected at age 43 in 1960 |
| 39% | STEIN | 5 | Gertrude who wrote "There is no there there" |
| 38% | STEIN | 5 | Gertrude who wrote "Rose is a rose is a rose ..." |
| 37% | EMMARADUCANU | 12 | British tennis player who was unseeded when she won the 2021 US Open at age 18 (2 wds.) |
| 37% | TSELIOT | 7 | Who wrote "April is the cruellest month" |
| 36% | STEIN | 5 | Gertrude who wrote "Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose" |
| 36% | PAGE | 4 | "Good, we are on the same ___" ("We agree") |
| 36% | EDITH | 5 | Wharton who wrote The Age of Innocence |
| 35% | ANAISNIN | 8 | Who wrote "The only abnormality is the incapacity to love" |
| 35% | SENDAK | 6 | Maurice who wrote "Where the Wild Things Are" |
| 35% | 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” |
| 35% | WINTERSON | 9 | Jeanette who wrote Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit |
| 35% | MAURICE | 7 | Author Sendak, who wrote Where The Wild Things Are |
| 35% | WINTERSON | 9 | Jeanette who wrote "Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit" |
| 35% | VOLTAIRE | 8 | French philosopher who wrote The Age of Louis XIV |
| 35% | AYN | 3 | Rand who wrote the line "Who is John Galt?" |
| 35% | HEGEL | 5 | German philosopher who wrote "The true is the whole" |
| 35% | DONNE | 5 | John who wrote the sonnet "Death Be Not Proud" |
| 35% | ZOLA | 4 | Émile who wrote "Truth is on the march" |
| 34% | AYNRAND | 7 | Who wrote "Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think" |
| 34% | ISADORE | 7 | Rosenfeld who wrote the best seller "Live Now, Age Later" |
| 34% | NADER | 5 | Ralph who wrote "Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!" |
| 34% | PYLE | 4 | Journalist who wrote the 1943 book "Here Is Your War" |