| 100% | EARTHA | 6 | Kitt who wrote "A Tart Is Not a Sweet" |
| 55% | ANTHONYBOURDAIN | 15 | Author/TV personality who wrote "Your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park" |
| 53% | CAMUS | 5 | Who wrote "Can one be a saint if God does not exist?" |
| 49% | SHAW | 4 | Playwright who wrote "Walk! Not bloody likely. I am going in a taxi" |
| 48% | MAO | 3 | Who said "A revolution is not a dinner party" |
| 48% | TSELIOT | 7 | Who wrote "This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but a whimper" |
| 47% | MAO | 3 | He who said "A revolution is not a dinner party" |
| 47% | ELIOT | 5 | Poet who wrote "This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but a whimper" |
| 46% | DRSEUSS | 7 | Who wrote "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not" |
| 46% | YOU | 3 | A person who is not a doofus |
| 45% | GIL | 3 | Scott-Heron who wrote "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" |
| 45% | AMATEUR | 7 | Someone who is not a professional |
| 45% | AUSTEN | 6 | Novelist who wrote, “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid” |
| 45% | LOUISEGLUCK | 11 | Literature Nobelist who wrote “The great thing / is not having / a mind. Feelings: / oh, I have those; they / govern me” |
| 45% | SCOTS | 5 | Language whose Wikipedia page was found to contain a large number of entries written by a teenager who was not a speaker of the language |
| 44% | FRANK | 5 | American poet ___ O'Hara who authored "Why I Am Not A Painter" |
| 43% | LAIC | 4 | Person who is not a member of the clergy |
| 43% | SARTRE | 6 | Who wrote "Existentialism Is a Humanism," 1945 |
| 43% | OGDEN | 5 | Nash who wrote "A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" |
| 43% | LAOTSE | 6 | Who wrote "He who does not trust enough will not be trusted" |
| 43% | FOSTERING | 9 | Bringing up a child who is not a blood relative |
| 43% | ADLAIESTEVENSON | 15 | Who said "A hungry man is not a free man" |
| 43% | VENUSDEMILO | 11 | A classic beauty who is not all there |
| 42% | BACHELOR | 8 | A man who is not married; an academic degree |
| 42% | DOER | 4 | Someone who is not just a thinker |
| 42% | DPLUSSTUDENT | 12 | One who is not on a roll? |
| 42% | DYLAN | 5 | About whom Obama said "There is not a bigger giant in the history of American music" |
| 42% | KEATS | 5 | Poet who wrote "Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter" |
| 42% | JUNE | 4 | Jordan who wrote, "I will not walk politely on the pavements anymore" |
| 42% | NIGELLALAWSON | 13 | TV chef who wrote "How to Be a Domestic Goddess": 2 wds. |