| 100% | TIFFANY | 7 | Louis —, US craftsman who created the Favrile style of stained glass |
| 34% | GARYLARSON | 10 | US cartoonist who created The Far Side series |
| 34% | TOMLINSON | 9 | Louis ___, member of the boy band One Direction who is known for his single "Two of Us" |
| 34% | LEOIX | 5 | Pope who created the Schism of 1054 |
| 33% | LEE | 3 | Harper ___ who created the character of Atticus Finch |
| 33% | TOLKIEN | 7 | Author who created the world of Middle Earth |
| 32% | DUNHAM | 6 | Lena, US actress who created the series Girls |
| 32% | SULLIVAN | 8 | Louis __, US architect, the father of skyscrapers |
| 31% | TORRIGIANO | 10 | Pietro —, sculptor who created the tomb of Margaret Beaufort in Westminster Abbey |
| 31% | IRA | 3 | Glass who created the public radio show "This American Life" |
| 31% | PINCENEZ | 8 | Style of glasses that grip the bridge of the nose |
| 31% | ENO | 3 | Brian who created the album "Reflection," which consists of one 54-minute track |
| 31% | CHAGALL | 7 | Designer of a stained-glass window in the U.N. building |
| 31% | ROCKMUSIC | 9 | Style of songs that started in the US in the 1940s |
| 30% | LOUISAMAYALCOTT | 15 | Author who created the characters named by the starts of 17-, 24-, 49- and 61-Across |
| 30% | FERRIER | 7 | Kathleen —, British contralto who created the title role in Benjamin Britten opera The Rape of Lucretia |
| 30% | POE | 3 | Edgar Allan ___, author who created the character of C. Auguste Dupin, a precursor to Sherlock Holmes |
| 30% | GORE | 4 | Senator who created and introduced the High-Performance Computing Act of 1991 |
| 30% | JONBOIS | 7 | Sports writer who created 17776, a story about the future of football |
| 29% | GOULD | 5 | Chester —, US cartoonist who created the Dick Tracy comic strip |
| 29% | LINCOLN | 7 | US president who is in the Wrestling Hall of Fame |
| 29% | ILO | 3 | U.N. agcy. created by the Treaty of Versailles |
| 29% | DOOWOP | 6 | Style of vocal-based rhythm and blues music popular in the US in the 1950s |
| 29% | HOBO | 4 | ___ bag (slouchy style of purse named after a drifter who rides the rails) |
| 29% | ARTDECO | 7 | Style of design and interior decoration in Europe and the US in the 1920s and 1930s |
| 29% | ALSTON | 6 | Charles who created murals for Harlem Hospital and the American Museum of Natural History |
| 29% | JULESVERNE | 10 | Writer who created Captain Nemo, traveler to the submerged city of Atlantis: 2 wds. |
| 29% | LESPAUL | 7 | US pioneer of the solid-body electric guitar who died in 2009 |
| 29% | BEATRIXPOTTER | 13 | Author/illustrator who created the title character of 18-Across: 2 wds. |