| 100% | LEE | 3 | Harper ___ who created the character of Atticus Finch |
| 56% | POE | 3 | Edgar Allan ___, author who created the character of C. Auguste Dupin, a precursor to Sherlock Holmes |
| 54% | LEE | 3 | Author Harper who created Boo Radley and Atticus Finch |
| 54% | LOUISAMAYALCOTT | 15 | Author who created the characters named by the starts of 17-, 24-, 49- and 61-Across |
| 54% | BEATRIXPOTTER | 13 | Author/illustrator who created the title character of 18-Across: 2 wds. |
| 51% | DISNEY | 6 | Company that created the characters who develop at the starts of the starred and double-starred entries |
| 49% | BILLDANA | 8 | Comedian who created the character Jose Jimenez |
| 49% | VLADIMIRNABOKOV | 15 | Writer who created the character Vivian Darkbloom |
| 49% | TYLER | 5 | Actor Perry who created the character Madea |
| 49% | MORRELL | 7 | David, author who created the character Rambo |
| 48% | TYLER | 5 | Actor/director Perry who created the character Madea |
| 48% | LOW | 3 | David —, cartoonist who created the character Colonel Blimp |
| 47% | SPEIGHT | 7 | Johnny —, comedy writer who created the character Alf Garnett |
| 47% | STAN | 4 | Lee who created the character referenced in 1-Across |
| 47% | MARCEAU | 7 | Marcel —, French mime artist who created the character Bip |
| 47% | AVERY | 5 | Tex —, film cartoon director who created the character Daffy Duck |
| 45% | TYLER | 5 | Actor and director Perry, who created the Madea character |
| 45% | LEOIX | 5 | Pope who created the Schism of 1054 |
| 44% | TOLKIEN | 7 | Author who created the world of Middle Earth |
| 44% | TIFFANY | 7 | Louis —, US craftsman who created the Favrile style of stained glass |
| 43% | JIMHENSON | 9 | The man who created the Muppets characters |
| 43% | FINCH | 5 | Atticus ___, lead character of the "To Kill a Mockingbird" movie who shares his name with a bird |
| 42% | ENO | 3 | Brian who created the album "Reflection," which consists of one 54-minute track |
| 42% | ANTONCHEKHOV | 12 | Russian writer who created the characters played by 15-Across, 40-Across, and 45-Across in "The Seagull" |
| 42% | ELSA | 4 | Animated character who created the snowman Olaf |
| 42% | NELL | 4 | ___ Brinkley, female comic artist and illustrator who created the comic character "The Brinkley Girl" |
| 42% | MAXFLEISCHER | 12 | Cartoonist who created characters Koko the Clown and Betty Boop |
| 41% | FERRIER | 7 | Kathleen —, British contralto who created the title role in Benjamin Britten opera The Rape of Lucretia |
| 40% | GORE | 4 | Senator who created and introduced the High-Performance Computing Act of 1991 |
| 40% | JONBOIS | 7 | Sports writer who created 17776, a story about the future of football |