| 100% | GREENE | 6 | Graham who wrote "The Third Man" |
| 68% | GREENE | 6 | The Third Man author Graham |
| 67% | GREENE | 6 | Graham who wrote "Our Man in Havana" |
| 63% | JOEL | 4 | Billy ___, singer-songwriter who wrote the song "Piano Man" |
| 62% | MALRAUX | 7 | André who wrote The Human Condition aka Man's Fate |
| 62% | GREENE | 6 | Graham who wrote "The Quiet American" |
| 61% | HEMINGWAY | 9 | American who wrote The Old Man and the Sea |
| 61% | ALGREN | 6 | Nelson who wrote "The Man With the Golden Arm" |
| 61% | MASHA | 5 | Gessen who wrote the 2012 Putin biography "The Man Without a Face" |
| 60% | GOODONE | 7 | Jane who wrote "In the Shadow of Man" |
| 60% | SLOAN | 5 | Novelist Wilson who wrote "The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit" |
| 59% | AYNRAND | 7 | Who wrote "Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think" |
| 58% | CATO | 4 | Who wrote "Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise" |
| 57% | ERASMUS | 7 | Who wrote "In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king" |
| 57% | ERASMUS | 7 | Who wrote "In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king" |
| 57% | PAINE | 5 | Tom who wrote, "These are the times that try men's souls" |
| 56% | AYN | 3 | Rand who wrote "Civilization is the process of setting man free from men" |
| 56% | NEWLEY | 6 | Anthony who wrote "The Candy Man" |
| 55% | ABEL | 4 | The third man |
| 55% | ABEL | 4 | The third man? |
| 55% | ZITHER | 6 | Instrument heard in The Third Man |
| 54% | REID | 4 | MSNBC anchor who wrote "The Man Who Sold America" |
| 54% | MIRANDAJULY | 11 | Author and filmmaker who wrote “The First Bad Man” |
| 54% | ERASMUS | 7 | Dutch philosopher who wrote "In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king" |
| 54% | SAGET | 5 | Actor/comedian Bob who wrote "Dirty Daddy: The Chronicles of a Family Man Turned Filthy Comedian" |
| 54% | TONI | 4 | Morrison who wrote, "No man should live without absorbing the sins of his kind" |
| 53% | POE | 3 | Who wrote "I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him" |
| 53% | REF | 3 | The third man in the ring |
| 52% | ORSON | 5 | He played the Third Man |
| 52% | ORSON | 5 | Harry in The Third Man |