| 100% | SUNTZU | 6 | He wrote "Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak" |
| 41% | HERO | 4 | Mariah Carey song with the lyrics "So when you feel like hope is gone / Look inside you and be strong" |
| 41% | HERO | 4 | 1993 Mariah Carey song with the lyrics "So when you feel like hope is gone / Look inside you and be strong" |
| 40% | FRANZKAFKA | 10 | He wrote "I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy" |
| 40% | TSELIOT | 7 | He wrote "I will show you fear in a handful of dust" |
| 39% | BOGEYMAN | 8 | He will come and get you if you misbehave |
| 39% | DOWNTIME | 8 | Time when you relax and are unproductive |
| 38% | FRANZKAFKA | 10 | He said "You are free and that is why you are lost" |
| 38% | SARTRE | 6 | He wrote "I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating" |
| 38% | RICE | 4 | "___ is great when you're hungry and want 2,000 of something": Mitch Hedberg |
| 38% | EXILE | 5 | Dante was one when he wrote the Divine Comedy |
| 38% | HERO | 4 | Mariah Carey "Look inside you and be strong" song |
| 37% | RICE | 4 | "___ is great when you're hungry and you want 2,000 of something": Mitch Hedberg |
| 37% | SARTRE | 6 | He wrote, "I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating" |
| 37% | 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” |
| 37% | MRI | 3 | You'll be in a strong field when you take this test (abbr.) |
| 37% | TOLSTOY | 7 | He wrote the treatise on nonviolence The Kingdom of God Is Within You |
| 37% | KAFKA | 5 | He wrote "In the fight between you and the world, back the world" |
| 37% | PRISONEREXCHANGE | 16 | Mission that 24-Across was on when he wrote 65-Across |
| 36% | HERO | 4 | Mariah Carey hit with the lyric "Look inside you and be strong" |
| 36% | ISHALLGRANTYOUONEWISH | 21 | When he pops the cork, a genie appears and says, "..." |
| 36% | SARTRE | 6 | He wrote "Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal" |
| 36% | ETERNITY | 8 | Period you always appear to be waiting for when you phone tech support |
| 35% | CATCHERINTHEGIN | 15 | J. D. Salinger's previous (and totally unsuccessful) attempt at writing when he was enthralled with blackthorn berries? |
| 35% | SAMANTHABEE | 11 | Comedian who wrote "Cracking Up" and "I Know I Am, but What Are You?" |
| 35% | YIELDTOTEMPTATION | 17 | When Otis Williams is merging, let him go first; you must always ___.
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| 35% | OUT | 3 | You can dine this way and when you do, someone will dish your food this way, too |
| 35% | CAROLS | 6 | * You know Christmas is right around the corner when you hear "Jingle Bells" and the like |
| 34% | CUGAT | 5 | Xavier —, Spain-born bandleader who appeared in films Bathing Beauty and You Were Never Lovelier |
| 34% | OLD | 3 | "When You Are ___," romantic poem written by William Butler Yeats |