| 100% | GOETHE | 6 | Johann Wolfgang von —, German writer who authored stage plays Egmont and Clavigo |
| 70% | GOETHE | 6 | Johann Wolfgang von —, German author of stage plays Egmont and Clavigo |
| 43% | SCHILLER | 8 | Friedrich —, German poet who authored stage plays The Robbers and Maria Stuart |
| 41% | GOETHE | 6 | Johann Wolfgang von __, German playwright and poet |
| 34% | MENANDER | 8 | Greek poet and comic dramatist who authored stage play Dyskolos |
| 33% | BENJONSON | 9 | Author of stage plays The Alchemist and Volpone who died in 1637 |
| 31% | MARLOWE | 7 | Christopher —, poet and dramatist who authored stage plays The Jew of Malta and Edward II |
| 31% | KING | 4 | Thomas ___, Indigenous writer who authored "Truth and Bright Water" |
| 30% | AESOP | 5 | Famed fable writer who authored "The Crow and the Pitcher" |
| 30% | KLEIST | 6 | Heinrich von —, author of stage plays Penthesilea and The Broken Pitcher |
| 30% | FERENCMOLNAR | 12 | Dramatist who authored 1909 stage play Liliom |
| 30% | LEITH | 5 | Prue —, food writer who authored novels A Lovesome Thing and Leaving Patrick |
| 29% | JONSON | 6 | Ben —, author of stage plays The Alchemist and Volpone who died in 1637 |
| 29% | LORCA | 5 | Federico Garcia —, Spanish poet who authored 1934 stage play Yerma |
| 29% | LORCA | 5 | Federico Garcia -, Spanish poet who authored 1934 stage play Yerma |
| 28% | OSCARWILDE | 10 | Writer who quipped "The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast" |
| 28% | BENTRAVERS | 10 | Author of stage plays Thark and The Bed Before Yesterday |
| 28% | PETERSHAFFER | 12 | Author of the stage plays Equus and Amadeus |
| 27% | ALAN | 4 | Author of stage plays Allelujah! and The Habit of Art |
| 27% | EURIPIDES | 9 | Greek tragic dramatist who authored the plays Medea and Hecuba |
| 27% | TOLLER | 6 | Ernst —, German author of the stage plays Hoppla, We're Alive and The Blind Goddess |
| 26% | SNOOWILSON | 10 | Author of stage plays The Grass Widow and The Glad Hand |
| 26% | OSCARWILDE | 10 | Author of stage plays An Ideal Husband and Lady Windermere's Fan |
| 25% | DAVIDMAMET | 10 | Author of the stage plays American Buffalo and Speed-the-Plow |
| 25% | ANTONCHEKHOV | 12 | Russian writer who created the characters played by 15-Across, 40-Across, and 45-Across in "The Seagull" |