| 100% | ODYSSEUS | 8 | Legendary king of Ithaca whom Homer wrote about |
| 56% | ODYSSEUS | 8 | Legendary king of Ithaca, hero of Homer's poem |
| 55% | ODYSSEUS | 8 | King of Ithaca who was the hero of Homer's tale |
| 44% | ODYSSEUS | 8 | King of Ithaca, stayed 20 years away from home |
| 42% | ODYSSEUS | 8 | A legendary Greek featured in Homer's epic poem, who was the King of Ithaca |
| 37% | BAUM | 4 | Author who wrote about the Land of Oz |
| 36% | OLAVI | 5 | Legendary king of Norway |
| 36% | MINOS | 5 | Legendary king of Crete |
| 36% | CREON | 5 | Legendary king of Thebes |
| 36% | UMPS | 4 | Professionals who work from home about a quarter of the time? |
| 36% | HERODOTUS | 9 | Father of history who wrote about the Persian Wars |
| 36% | ALI | 3 | Legendary king of the ring |
| 36% | ERASMUS | 7 | Who wrote "In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king" |
| 36% | ERASMUS | 7 | Who wrote "In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king" |
| 34% | WARSANSHIRE | 11 | Poet who wrote "no one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark" |
| 34% | STEPHEN | 7 | King of horror writing |
| 34% | ERASMUS | 7 | Dutch philosopher who wrote "In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king" |
| 33% | BIRMINGHAM | 10 | City where King wrote about "shallow understanding from people of good will" |
| 33% | RLSTINE | 7 | Author referred to as "Stephen King of children's literature" who wrote the first book of the Goosebumps series in 1992 |
| 33% | PISA | 4 | Leonardo of ___ (mathematician who wrote about the 33-Across) |
| 33% | WARSANSHIRE | 11 | Somali-British poet who wrote, “no one leaves home unless / home is the mouth of a shark” |
| 33% | HAT | 3 | Oliver Sacks wrote (in 1985) about Dr. P who apparently mistook his wife for one of these |
| 33% | OMRI | 4 | King of Israel who founded Samaria |
| 32% | THEBRIGHTSWORD | 14 | Lev Grossman novel about a knight who arrives in Camelot after the death of King Arthur (3 wds.) |
| 32% | EPICS | 5 | Homer wrote poems of this long kind |
| 32% | PENDA | 5 | King of Mercia who died in 655 |
| 32% | MINOS | 5 | King of Crete who commissioned a labyrinth |
| 32% | AUDEN | 5 | Poet who wrote, “Poetry makes nothing happen” in his poem about a poet, “In Memory of W. B. Yeats” |
| 32% | CONCHOBAR | 9 | Legendary king in Ulster Cycle of Celtic mythology |
| 32% | DUNCAN | 6 | King of Scotland who succeeded Malcolm in 1034 |