| 100% | LYTE | 4 | Henry Francis —, author of the words of the hymn Abide with Me |
| 94% | LYTE | 4 | Henry Francis —, author of the words of hymn Abide with Me |
| 43% | JERUSALEM | 9 | Hymn with the lyric "Bring me my chariot of fire!" |
| 40% | JOE | 3 | With 43-Across, author of the quote |
| 40% | AMBROSE | 7 | With 43-Down, author of the definition |
| 40% | MARGARET | 8 | With 53-Across, author of the quote |
| 39% | EGAN | 4 | Jennifer —, author of the novels The Keep and Look at Me |
| 39% | ALGREN | 6 | Nelson ___, author of "The Man With the Golden Arm" |
| 38% | MELANIA | 7 | "___ and Me," 2020 book by Stephanie Winston Wolkoff about the author's friendship with the former first lady of the USA |
| 38% | NEVILLE | 7 | Henry —, author of 1668 prose fiction The Isle of Pines |
| 38% | ALBERT | 6 | With 23-Across, author of the general theory of relativity |
| 38% | JOHNB | 5 | With 65-Across, Irish writer and author of the quote |
| 38% | GOBLIN | 6 | With 13-Across, Oxford's 2022 Word of the Year |
| 38% | TOPLADY | 7 | Augustus, author of the hymn Rock of Ages |
| 38% | JAMES | 5 | "The Turn of the Screw" author Henry |
| 38% | ANNERICE | 8 | Author of Interview with the Vampire |
| 38% | ANNERICE | 8 | Author of "Interview With the Vampire" |
| 38% | OSCAR | 5 | With 63-Across, author of the quip starting at 17-Across |
| 38% | OSCAR | 5 | With 126-Across, author of the quip starting at 27-Across |
| 38% | LONGFELLOW | 10 | Henry Wadsworth —, author of poem The Song of Hiawatha |
| 38% | CAPEK | 5 | Author of sci-fi's "War With the Newts" |
| 37% | DALI | 4 | Speaker of the words "I don't do drugs. I am drugs." |
| 37% | PUZO | 4 | Author of the line "It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes" |
| 37% | SIRISAAC | 8 | With 48-Across, author of the three laws of motion: 2 wds. |
| 37% | SEUSS | 5 | Late author of the 2015 kids' book "What Pet Should I Get?" |
| 37% | HELLO | 5 | Word whose rise in popularity coincided with the spread of the telephone |
| 37% | PEARSE | 6 | Lesley —, author of the novels Remember Me and Father Unknown |
| 37% | ANGELOU | 7 | Maya, author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings |
| 37% | PITTER | 6 | With 64-Across, sound of the circled words |
| 37% | NIMBUS | 6 | With 7-Across, sources of the circled words |