| 100% | NEDROREM | 8 | Indiana-born composer/writer |
| 59% | LLOYDC | 6 | ___ Douglas, Indiana born minister and author |
| 58% | CAMUS | 5 | Writer born in Algeria |
| 58% | HGWELLS | 7 | Writer born Herbert George |
| 58% | AAMILNE | 7 | Writer about a bear |
| 57% | HOAGYCARMICHAEL | 15 | Composer born Nov. 22, 1899 |
| 57% | KURTWEILL | 9 | Composer born March 2, 1900 |
| 57% | DRSEUSS | 7 | Writer born March 2, 1904 |
| 57% | IANFLEMING | 10 | Writer born May 28, 1908 |
| 57% | GREY | 4 | Writer born in Zanesville, Ohio |
| 54% | PERU | 4 | Indiana town where Cole Porter was born |
| 54% | DVORAK | 6 | Composer Antonín, born in Prague in 1841 |
| 54% | STAN | 4 | Writer Berenstain famous for the Berenstain Bears |
| 53% | ANTHONY | 7 | __ Burgess, English writer and composer |
| 52% | PART | 4 | Arvo —, Estonian composer born in 1935 |
| 52% | ISHIGURO | 8 | Kazuo __, British writer born in Nagasaki |
| 51% | PERU | 4 | Indiana town where Cole Porter was born and buried |
| 51% | WAGNER | 6 | Richard, German composer and conductor born 1813 |
| 51% | STANLEE | 7 | Founding Marvel writer and editor, born 1922 |
| 50% | ROREM | 5 | Composer/writer Ned |
| 50% | SEYMOUR | 7 | Indiana city where John Cougar Mellencamp was born in 1951 |
| 49% | LEONARD | 7 | With 60 Across, composer born August 25, 1918 |
| 49% | DORSET | 6 | English county where writer Thomas Hardy was born |
| 49% | HARPER | 6 | Middle name of the writer born Nelle Lee |
| 49% | VIRGIL | 6 | "Each of us bears his own Hell" writer |
| 49% | TOURTEL | 7 | Mary, writer and artist who created Rupert Bear |
| 48% | ENYA | 4 | Irish singer and film composer born Eithne Ni Bhraonain |
| 48% | BRUCH | 5 | Max —, German composer of oratorio Arminius born in 1838 |
| 48% | OAHU | 4 | Island where the writer Lisa Linn Kanae was born |
| 46% | SCHOENBERG | 10 | Austrian-born composer |