| 100% | CAPEK | 5 | Karel ___, writer who coined the word "robot" |
| 88% | CAPEK | 5 | Writer who coined the word "robot" |
| 80% | DRSEUSS | 7 | Writer who coined the word "nerd" |
| 74% | NORMANMAILER | 12 | Writer who coined the word "factoid" in his biography of Marilyn Monroe (2 wds.) |
| 74% | WILLIAMGIBSON | 13 | Writer who coined the word "cyberspace" in his short story "Burning Chrome" (2 wds.) |
| 74% | GEORGEORWELL | 12 | Writer who coined the word "doublethink" in his novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four" (2 wds.) |
| 71% | CAPEK | 5 | Czech playwright who coined the word "robot" |
| 71% | HLMENCKEN | 9 | *Writer who coined the word "booboisie" |
| 63% | KANT | 4 | Writer who coined the phrase "categorical imperative" |
| 62% | OHENRY | 6 | Writer who coined the term "banana republic" (1904) |
| 62% | TYCHOBRAHE | 10 | Astronomer who coined the word "nova" |
| 62% | FERMI | 5 | Physicist who coined the word "neutrino" |
| 62% | JUNG | 4 | Psychologist who coined the word "synchronicity" |
| 62% | IDA | 3 | Tin who coined the word "FemTech" |
| 61% | EHRLICH | 7 | Bacteriologist Paul who coined the word "chemotherapy" |
| 61% | FERMI | 5 | Enrico ___, physicist who coined the word "neutrino" |
| 61% | TYRA | 4 | Supermodel Banks who coined the word "smize" |
| 61% | NEAL | 4 | Author Stephenson who coined the word "metaverse" |
| 60% | CAEN | 4 | Bay Area columnist who coined the word "beatnik" |
| 60% | AESOP | 5 | Greek fable writer who coined the expression "sour grapes" |
| 59% | LESAGE | 6 | French writer who coined the phrase "Facts are stubborn things" |
| 59% | WILLIAMGIBSON | 13 | Science fiction writer who coined the term "cyberspace": 2 wds. |
| 54% | OBIE | 4 | Writer Brooke who coined the Hurston-Walker Test |
| 50% | LEWISCARROLL | 12 | Writer who was the source of all the words with asterisked clues in this puzzle |
| 46% | CZECH | 5 | Like the word robot, etymologically |
| 45% | VARIETY | 7 | Publication that coined the word "sitcom" |
| 45% | ROWE | 4 | Playwright who coined the term "lothario" |
| 45% | LAMARCK | 7 | Naturalist who coined the term "invertebrate" |
| 45% | BRAHE | 5 | Astronomer who coined the term "nova" |
| 45% | WATT | 4 | Engineer who coined the term "horsepower" |