| 100% | GOODONE | 7 | Jane who wrote "In the Shadow of Man" |
| 62% | ERASMUS | 7 | Who wrote "In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king" |
| 62% | ERASMUS | 7 | Who wrote "In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king" |
| 57% | JANEGOODALL | 11 | Writer whose second book about chimpanzees, "In the Shadow of Man," was published in 1971 (2 wds.) |
| 57% | ERASMUS | 7 | Dutch philosopher who wrote "In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king" |
| 54% | SLOAN | 5 | Novelist Wilson who wrote "The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit" |
| 53% | JANEGOODALL | 11 | Author of "In the Shadow of Man" |
| 53% | AYN | 3 | Rand who wrote "Civilization is the process of setting man free from men" |
| 52% | PISAN | 5 | Italian who may live in the shadow of the Leaning Tower |
| 52% | TONI | 4 | Morrison who wrote, "No man should live without absorbing the sins of his kind" |
| 52% | ENGELS | 6 | Friedrich ___, German political scientist who wrote "The Condition of the Working Class in England" |
| 52% | KNIGHT | 6 | Man who is given the title of Sir in England |
| 52% | ABBOTT | 6 | Jack who wrote "In the Belly of the Beast" |
| 51% | HOWARD | 6 | John —, prison reformer who wrote 1777 book The State of Prisons in England and Wales |
| 51% | SAGET | 5 | Actor/comedian Bob who wrote "Dirty Daddy: The Chronicles of a Family Man Turned Filthy Comedian" |
| 51% | GAELS | 5 | Ones who wrote in the Ogham alphabet |
| 50% | EVIL | 4 | What the Shadow knows lurks in the hearts of men |
| 50% | LARAMIE | 7 | City in the shadow of the Snowy Range |
| 50% | YANNI | 5 | Composer Chryssomallis, who wrote "Seven Billion Dreams" in 2015 for NASA's 15th anniversary of the ISS |
| 50% | ERMA | 4 | Bombeck who wrote If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits? |
| 50% | MOTEN | 5 | Fred who wrote “In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition” |
| 50% | KELSEYGRAMMER | 13 | "Frasier" actor who plays the Tin Man in "Legends of Oz": 2 wds. |
| 50% | KENYA | 5 | Country of Eliud Kipchoge who holds the world record for men in Marathon |
| 49% | OBAMA | 5 | President who wrote "The Audacity of Hope" in 2006 |
| 49% | BAIN | 4 | Donald who wrote a 1963 "memoir" seen in the first words of 17-, 30-, 46- and 60-Across |
| 49% | DEREK | 5 | Bo —, actress who played Jane Parker in 1981 adventure film Tarzan, the Ape Man |
| 49% | ESQUIRE | 7 | Unofficial title of respect written in the end of a man's formal name |
| 49% | YANN | 4 | ___ Martel, author who won the Man Booker Prize in 2002 for "Life of Pi" |
| 49% | TED | 3 | Danson who played one of the three men in "Three Men and a Baby" |
| 49% | AYNRAND | 7 | Who wrote "Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think" |