| 100% | TWOL | 4 | Like the pack animal about which Nash wrote "he's a beast" |
| 39% | MLK | 3 | He wrote about “a positive peace which is the presence of justice,” for short |
| 37% | TWOL | 4 | "The __ llama, / He's a beast": Nash |
| 36% | ALPHAMALE | 9 | He's a head of the pack |
| 36% | UNICORN | 7 | Peter S. Beagle wrote a novel about the last one |
| 35% | OLIVIA | 6 | Laing who wrote “Everybody: A Book About Freedom,” which asks the reader to “imagine, for a minute, what it would be like to inhabit a body without fear” (April, 2021) |
| 33% | ISAWTHELIGHT | 12 | Biopic about 18-Across, and the title of a classic gospel song he wrote: 4 wds. |
| 33% | AWAY | 4 | Like about half the games on a team's schedule |
| 31% | TWAIN | 5 | He wrote about the Finns |
| 31% | EASE | 4 | "The ___ with which he pulled it off made him look like a pro." |
| 31% | ENO | 3 | Composer of "The Microsoft Sound," which, ironically, he wrote on a Mac |
| 31% | EYE | 3 | "The Bluest ___," 1970 novel written by Toni Morrison which is about a young girl growing up during the years of Great Depression |
| 31% | TULIPS | 6 | 1961 poem written by Sylvia Plath about the flowers she received in a hospital which was included in the collection "Ariel" |
| 31% | GOOEY | 5 | Melty, like the inside of a s'more |
| 30% | TAME | 4 | Not dangerous, like the animals in a petting zoo |
| 30% | META | 4 | Like a book about writing a book |
| 30% | PET | 3 | Animal like a part of the family |
| 30% | DESADE | 6 | He wrote "The only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment" |
| 30% | INESCAPABLE | 11 | Like a fate written in the stars |
| 30% | ORAL | 4 | Like a contract that's said to be "not worth the paper it's written on" |
| 30% | ONEL | 4 | “The ___ lama, he’s a priest ...”: Ogden Nash |
| 30% | FERLINGHETTI | 12 | He wrote A Coney Island of the Mind |
| 29% | CHEKHOV | 7 | He wrote a play about three sisters in 1901 |
| 29% | ANNEFRANK | 9 | Wrote a diary about the time she spent hiding |
| 29% | NONFICTION | 10 | Type of book where the author writes about real events like Michelle Obama's "Becoming": Hyph. |
| 29% | ERIE | 4 | Canal about which the 1905 song "Low Bridge, Everybody Down" was written |
| 29% | STARRY | 6 | Like a night on which the Big Dipper is visible |
| 29% | INVERSE | 7 | The opposite sounds like it is written as a poem? |
| 29% | JUNGLE | 6 | The __ Book, story about a boy raised by animals |
| 29% | OBOE | 4 | Instrument Ogden Nash referred to when he said, "... reeds are a pain / And the fingering's insane" |