| 100% | KEBLE | 5 | John —, a leader of the Oxford Movement and author of 1827 volume of poetry The Christian Year |
| 72% | KEBLE | 5 | John —, a leader of the Oxford Movement and author of book of poems The Christian Year |
| 41% | RIORDAN | 7 | Maurice —, author of poetry volumes Floods and A Word from the Loki |
| 36% | LENNON | 6 | John —, musician; author of 1965 volume A Spaniard in the Works |
| 36% | WOODROWWILSON | 13 | The 28th US President and leader of the progressive movement was the first attend a world series |
| 35% | ABSE | 4 | Dannie —, author of poetry volumes Running Late and Ask the Bloody Horse |
| 35% | CRONIN | 6 | A J —, author of novels The Green Years and The Citadel |
| 34% | STEVIE | 6 | Author of the poetry volumes Harold's Leap and Not Waving But Drowning |
| 33% | KEATS | 5 | John —, author of poems The Eve of St Agnes and Ode on a Grecian Urn |
| 33% | JOHNMONTAGUE | 12 | Author of volumes Drunken Sailor and Smashing the Piano; Ireland Chair of Poetry from 1998-2001 |
| 33% | METHODISM | 9 | Protestant Christian movement deriving its inspiration from the life and teachings of John Wesley |
| 31% | URSULAKLEGUIN | 13 | "The Left Hand of Darkness" author who won a Hugo and a Nebula in the same year, twice: 4 wds. |
| 31% | JEREMIAH | 8 | Hebrew prophet and author of a Book of the Bible |
| 31% | GRISHAM | 7 | John —, author of novels The Broker and The Brethren |
| 31% | HACKETT | 7 | John Winthrop —, soldier and author of 1977 memoir I Was a Stranger |
| 30% | MORTIMER | 8 | John —, author of novels Paradise Postponed and The Sound of Trumpets |
| 30% | AIMECESAIRE | 11 | Poet and intellectual who was a founder of the Négritude movement |
| 30% | RECTOR | 6 | John —, author of the novels Out of the Black and Already Gone |
| 30% | POLIDORI | 8 | John —, physician to Lord Byron and author of the novel The Vampyre |
| 30% | HACKETT | 7 | Sir John Winthrop —, soldier and author of 1977 memoir I Was a Stranger |
| 30% | DUMAS | 5 | Alexandre —, author of novels The Three Musketeers and Twenty Years After |
| 29% | GRISHAM | 7 | John, author of The Pelican Brief and Runaway Jury |
| 29% | LANDSLIDES | 10 | Earth movements, and a description of the circled letters |
| 29% | CHRISSTAPLETON | 14 | "From a Room: Volume 1" singer who won the 2017 CMA Awards for Male Vocalist of the Year and Album of the Year (2 wds.) |
| 29% | GALLIANO | 8 | John —, 1987, 1994 and 1995 British Fashion Awards Designer of the Year |
| 29% | CREASEY | 7 | John —, author of novels Go Away Death and The Executioners |
| 29% | CASHFLOW | 8 | The movement of money in and out of a company |
| 29% | CASHFLOW | 8 | The movement of money into and out of a business |