| 100% | BLY | 3 | Nellie who wrote "Ten Days in a Mad-House" |
| 61% | BLY | 3 | "Ten Days in a Mad-House" muckraker |
| 52% | BLY | 3 | Journalist Nellie who wrote the book “Around the World in Seventy-two Days” |
| 52% | NELLIEBLY | 9 | Muckraker whose 1887 exposé "Ten Days in a Mad-House" exposed conditions at New York's Women's Lunatic Asylum: 2 wds. |
| 44% | JOHNREED | 8 | Journalist who wrote about the October Revolution in "Ten Days That Shook the World" |
| 42% | SUSANNE | 7 | ___ Langer, who wrote "Philosophy in a New Key" |
| 41% | VERNE | 5 | Jules who wrote "Around the World in 80 Days" |
| 41% | HENRIK | 6 | Ibsen who wrote A Doll's House and Peer Gynt |
| 41% | IDA | 3 | Author Tarbell who wrote "All in the Day's Work" |
| 40% | LEAPING | 7 | Ten lords a-__ in The Twelve Days of Christmas |
| 40% | AUSTEN | 6 | Author who wrote "Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance" |
| 39% | HORACE | 6 | Roman poet who wrote "Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!" |
| 39% | SHAW | 4 | Playwright who wrote "Walk! Not bloody likely. I am going in a taxi" |
| 39% | HERO | 4 | One who saves the day, in a comic book |
| 39% | POE | 3 | Who wrote "It was many and many a year ago, / In a kingdom by the sea ..." |
| 38% | CAHN | 4 | Sammy who wrote the lyrics to "Ain't That a Kick in the Head" |
| 38% | SUEGRAFTON | 10 | Mystery author who wrote the 2015 novel “X” (the twenty-fourth in a series) |
| 38% | SEDARIS | 7 | Humorist David who wrote his first diary entry on a diner placemat in 1977 |
| 38% | GAUGUIN | 7 | Artist who shared a house in Arles with Van Gogh |
| 38% | CARTIER | 7 | Louis-François who founded a Parisian jewelry house in 1847 |
| 38% | TENANTS | 7 | People who live in your house for a monthly fee |
| 38% | POE | 3 | Who wrote "I dwelt alone / In a world of moan, / And my soul was a stagnant tide" |
| 38% | ROUSSEAU | 8 | Philosopher who wrote "To be sane in a world of madmen is in itself madness" |
| 38% | LADYANTEBELLUM | 14 | "American Honey" group who wrote a song in "SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical": 2 wds. |
| 38% | SEVEN | 5 | Days in a week |
| 38% | CRAZILY | 7 | In a mad way |
| 38% | YOM | 3 | Day in a synagogue |
| 38% | CHAN | 4 | Fictional character who first appeared in "The House Without a Key" |
| 38% | ROTH | 4 | Eli who directed "The House With a Clock in Its Walls" |
| 38% | KAL | 3 | ___ Penn, actor who held a post in the Obama White House |