| 100% | TWAIN | 5 | Mark who wrote, “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness” |
| 57% | FATAL | 5 | "Travel is ___ to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness": Twain |
| 41% | CHECKLIST | 9 | Written tasks to be completed and marked off |
| 38% | YEATS | 5 | Poet who wrote "I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree" |
| 38% | ELENA | 5 | Ferrante who wrote, “There are people who leave and people who know how to be left” |
| 36% | GRETATHUNBERG | 13 | Swedish environmental activist who wrote "No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference" and who turns 18 today (2 wds.) |
| 35% | YURIGAGARIN | 11 | Russian who was the first person to travel into space and orbit the earth (1961): 2 wds. |
| 35% | PLATH | 5 | Poet who wrote "I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am" |
| 34% | AUSTEN | 6 | Jane who wrote "Pride and Prejudice" |
| 34% | JANE | 4 | Novelist Austen, who wrote Pride and Prejudice |
| 34% | GETTY | 5 | Magnate who wrote "How to Be Rich" |
| 34% | ANAISNIN | 8 | Who wrote "The only abnormality is the incapacity to love" |
| 34% | GRACEPALEY | 10 | Author and activist who wrote, “It is the poet’s responsibility to learn the truth from the powerless” |
| 33% | CHRISTIE | 8 | Agatha who wrote And Then There Were None |
| 33% | IVANA | 5 | Trump who wrote "The Best Is Yet to Come" |
| 33% | EUCLID | 6 | Who wrote to Ptolemy I "There is no royal road to geometry" |
| 33% | SARTRE | 6 | Who wrote "I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating" |
| 33% | AYNRAND | 7 | Who wrote "Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think" |
| 33% | POPE | 4 | Poet who wrote "To err is human; to forgive, divine" |
| 33% | AUDEN | 5 | Poet who wrote "For the Time Being" and "Another Time" |
| 32% | TONIMORRISON | 12 | Author who died in 2019 and was, as David Remnick wrote, “unsparing in her depiction of people who would use language to evil ends” |
| 32% | NEILDIAMOND | 11 | "Song Sung Blue" singer who will no longer tour due to Parkinson's disease, but still plans to write and record music: 2 wds. |
| 32% | MARCO | 5 | Polo who wrote about his travels to Cathay in “Il Milione” |
| 32% | SPENCE | 6 | Superlawyer Gerry who wrote "How to Argue and Win Every Time" |
| 32% | BRONTE | 6 | Who wrote "Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same" |
| 32% | SUNTZU | 6 | Who wrote "The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting" |
| 32% | NIGELLALAWSON | 13 | TV chef who wrote "How to Be a Domestic Goddess": 2 wds. |
| 32% | WHEATLEY | 8 | Phillis who wrote the poem “On Being Brought from Africa to America” |
| 31% | ATTENDANCESHEET | 15 | Where who's present and absent is marked |
| 31% | DOCILE | 6 | Someone who is quiet and easy to influence |