| 100% | HENRIK | 6 | Ibsen who wrote A Doll's House and Peer Gynt |
| 47% | IBSEN | 5 | Playwright Henrik who wrote "A Doll's House" |
| 40% | NORWEGIAN | 9 | Nationality of A Doll's House playwright Ibsen |
| 39% | IBSEN | 5 | Playwright Henrik, who wrote The Doll's House |
| 36% | ABE | 3 | Burrows who wrote "Guys and Dolls" |
| 36% | DAMON | 5 | Runyon who wrote “Guys and Dolls” |
| 36% | EGAN | 4 | Jennifer who wrote “A Visit from the Goon Squad” and its follow-up, “The Candy House” (April, 2022) |
| 35% | ALLIE | 5 | Brosh who wrote "Hyperbole and a Half" |
| 35% | NORA | 4 | A Doll's House heroine |
| 35% | LOWERY | 6 | David who wrote and directed A Ghost Story |
| 35% | ERDRICH | 7 | Louise who wrote “Love Medicine” and “The Round House” |
| 34% | RUNYON | 6 | Damon who wrote the stories adapted as "Guys and Dolls" |
| 33% | CREWE | 5 | Bob, who co-wrote "Big Girls Don't Cry", "Walk Like a Man" and "Rag Doll" |
| 33% | IBSEN | 5 | "Ghosts" and "A Doll's House" playwright |
| 33% | ALLEN | 5 | ___ Ginsberg, poet who wrote "Howl" and a major figure of the Beat Generation |
| 33% | EDGARGUEST | 10 | American poet who wrote “Only a Dad” and “It Couldn’t Be Done” |
| 32% | BAIN | 4 | Donald who wrote a 1963 "memoir" seen in the first words of 17-, 30-, 46- and 60-Across |
| 32% | IBSEN | 5 | Henrik who wrote "Peer Gynt" |
| 32% | POE | 3 | Who wrote "It was many and many a year ago, / In a kingdom by the sea ..." |
| 32% | AGEE | 4 | Jon who wrote and illustrated "Go Hang a Salami! I'm a Lasagna Hog!" |
| 32% | NICKHORNBY | 10 | British author who wrote "About a Boy," 16-Across, and 31-Across (2 wds.) |
| 32% | ASE | 3 | Peer Gynt's mother, from Ibsen's play |
| 32% | BENITOMUSSOLINI | 15 | World leader who wrote a novel, "The Cardinal's Mistress" |
| 32% | POWER | 5 | Word before "house" to refer to someone who has great energy, and something that's not actually a house |
| 32% | RICHARDNIXON | 12 | Former U.S. president who wrote "In the Arena: A Memoir of Victory, Defeat, and Renewal" (2 wds.) |
| 32% | POE | 3 | Who wrote "I dwelt alone / In a world of moan, / And my soul was a stagnant tide" |
| 32% | SHEL | 4 | Silverstein who wrote the words and music for Johnny Cash's "A Boy Named Sue" |
| 31% | ANKA | 4 | Paul who wrote "She's a Lady" |
| 31% | NIN | 3 | Novelist who wrote "I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living" |
| 31% | PABLO | 5 | ___ Neruda, Nobel prize-winning Chilean poet who wrote "Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair" |