| 100% | ONACID | 6 | How Lennon wrote the opening lines of "I Am the Walrus" |
| 56% | ITOOSINGAMERICA | 15 | Opening of the Langston Hughes poem with the lines "They'll see how beautiful I am / And be ashamed" |
| 45% | AMAJ | 4 | Mus. key of "I Am The Walrus" |
| 44% | ITOOAMAMERICA | 13 | Last line of a poem by 6-Down, which follows the lines "They'll see how beautiful I am / And be ashamed" (4 wds.) |
| 44% | HEAS | 4 | Third and fourth words of "I Am the Walrus" |
| 44% | LITTLE | 6 | "___ Women," book by Louisa May Alcott which features the line "I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship" |
| 43% | LSD | 3 | Purported influence on the lyrics of "I Am the Walrus" |
| 43% | III | 3 | “Richard ___” (play with the opening line “Now is the winter of our discontent”) |
| 42% | CHELSEAHANDLER | 14 | Comedian who wrote the memoir “Life Will Be the Death of Me” |
| 42% | BELOVED | 7 | 1987 novel with the opening lines “124 was spiteful. Full of a baby’s venom” |
| 42% | HAIKU | 5 | "What Richard Wright wrote" could be the first line of one |
| 41% | DAN | 3 | I wrote the Robert Langdon series and three of my novels were adapted into films |
| 41% | HAL | 3 | Speaker of the film line "This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it" |
| 40% | FRANZKAFKA | 10 | He wrote "I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy" |
| 40% | ITOO | 4 | Langston Hughes poem with the lines "They'll see how beautiful I am / And be ashamed" |
| 40% | ITOO | 4 | Langston Hughes poem with the lines "They'll see how beautiful I am / and be ashamed-" |
| 39% | EVER | 4 | "If you're ___ in a jam, here I am" (first line of the classic song "Friendship") |
| 39% | GEMS | 4 | Uncut ___ (Adam Sandler movie with the line "This is how I win") |
| 39% | HOPE | 4 | "___ is the thing with feathers," poem by Emily Dickinson with the line "...It asked a crumb of me." |
| 39% | IONCEHADAGIRL | 13 | Start of the opening line of 55-Across |
| 39% | NEON | 4 | Gas in the opening line of "On Broadway" |
| 39% | GREEN | 5 | I am the color of mistletoe |
| 39% | SASHA | 5 | One of the daughters for whom the 2010 book "Of Thee I Sing" was written |
| 39% | ROSA | 4 | Parks who wrote, "The only tired I was, was tired of giving in" |
| 39% | JOHNASHBERY | 11 | Writer of the lines “And the poem / Has set me softly down beside you. The poem is you.” |
| 39% | CASABLANCA | 10 | 1942 film that ends with the line “Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship” |
| 38% | SHEONCEHADME | 12 | End of the opening line |
| 38% | POE | 3 | Writer of the line "Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December" |
| 38% | POE | 3 | Poet who wrote the opening line "Once upon a midnight dreary ..." |
| 38% | KELLYCLARKSON | 13 | One Direction's "Tell Me a Lie" was written by ___, winner of the first season of "American Idol": 2 wds. |