| 100% | FLECKER | 7 | James Elroy —, London-born writer whose volumes of poetry include 1913's The Golden Journey to Samarkand |
| 35% | HARTE | 5 | Bret —, US writer whose volumes include 1870's The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Sketches |
| 33% | IVORGURNEY | 10 | British composer whose volumes of poetry include 1917's Severn & Somme |
| 32% | GURNEY | 6 | Ivor —, British composer whose volumes of poetry include 1917's Severn & Somme |
| 31% | BIRDCAGE | 8 | __ Walk, London street to the S of St James's Park |
| 29% | FERLINGHETTI | 12 | Lawrence —, US poet whose volumes include 1958’s A Coney Island of the Mind |
| 28% | BRADBURY | 8 | Ray —, author whose volumes of short stories include The Illustrated Man |
| 28% | ROETHKE | 7 | Theodore —, writer whose volume The Waking won the 1954 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry |
| 27% | VERNE | 5 | "A Journey to the Center of the Earth" writer |
| 27% | RODMCKUEN | 9 | Late California-born singer-songwriter whose poetry collections include Listen to the Warm and Lonesome Cities |
| 27% | STEVENS | 7 | Wallace —, US poet whose volumes include The Auroras of Autumn and Harmonium |
| 27% | GIRAUDOUX | 9 | Jean —, French writer whose plays include The Madwoman of Chaillot and Ondine |
| 26% | VANOOST | 7 | Jacob —, Flemish painter whose works include 1643's David Bearing the Head of Goliath |
| 25% | LOVECRAFT | 9 | H P —, science fiction and horror writer whose stories include The Case of Charles Dexter Ward |
| 25% | JOHNLYDGATE | 11 | English poet born circa 1370 whose works include The Floure of Curtesye |
| 25% | EDWARD | 6 | & 9D US writer and artist whose works include 1963 volume The Gashlycrumb Tinies |
| 25% | MERIMEE | 7 | Writer whose novella "Carmen" is the basis of Bizet's opera |
| 25% | UCLA | 4 | Sch. whose home football games used to include a live bear on the field |
| 25% | HELENIUM | 8 | Genus of plants of the daisy family native to America whose species includes yellowdicks |
| 24% | EDEL | 4 | Writer of the five-volume biography "Henry James" |
| 24% | THURBER | 7 | James —, US humorist whose short stories include The Catbird Seat and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty |
| 24% | CARRACCI | 8 | Agostino —, Italian painter born in 1557 whose works include The Last Communion of St Jerome |
| 24% | TREVANIAN | 9 | Author born Rodney Whitaker whose novels include The Crazyladies of Pearl Street and The Eiger Sanction |
| 24% | TEAK | 4 | Plant whose name becomes that of a meat product when an s is added to the beginning |
| 24% | UCB | 3 | The Golden Bears of the NCAA |
| 23% | RACHELCARSON | 12 | 19-Across and 34-Across writer whose work indirectly led to the creation of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (2 wds.) |
| 23% | TITIAN | 6 | Artist of the Venetian School born in Pieve di Cadore, Italy, whose works include The Death of Actaeon |
| 23% | LOVE | 4 | To Balzac, it’s “the poetry of the senses” |
| 23% | SAMINNOSRAT | 11 | Chef and cookbook writer whose four elements of cooking are the first words of the answers to 16-, 23-, 48-, and 56-Across |