| 100% | URIS | 4 | Novelist who cowrote ''Jerusalem: Song of Songs'' (1981) |
| 50% | EASTON | 6 | Sheena —, singer-actress who performed the title song of 1981 action film For Your Eyes Only |
| 46% | WILLACATHER | 11 | American novelist who wrote the Great Plains trilogy of 15-Across, "The Song of the Lark," and 45-Across (2 wds.) |
| 46% | MAHLER | 6 | Gustav who composed "The Song of the Earth" |
| 44% | ZOLA | 4 | Novelist who was a childhood friend of Cézanne |
| 44% | LEE | 3 | Novelist who was a lifelong friend of Capote |
| 44% | EDITH | 5 | Novelist Wharton who wrote "The Age of Innocence" |
| 44% | SQUAREBIZ | 9 | Teena Marie hit song of 1981 |
| 43% | SCOTTTUROW | 10 | Best-selling novelist whom Time called "Bard of the Litigious Age" |
| 43% | HUGO | 4 | Novelist Victor ___ who wrote "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame" |
| 43% | ERICAJONG | 9 | Feminist novelist who wrote Fear of Flying |
| 43% | SUE | 3 | Boy of song who hated his name |
| 42% | SPARK | 5 | Novelist Muriel who wrote "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" |
| 42% | NEHEMIAH | 8 | Hebrew leader who rebuilt the walls of Jerusalem |
| 42% | EVA | 3 | Cassidy, who covered the song Fields of Gold |
| 42% | TORME | 5 | Singer Mel who cowrote and sang "The Christmas Song" |
| 42% | IDLE | 4 | Eric of "Monty Python" who cowrote the musical "Spamalot" |
| 42% | DIANA | 5 | ___ Spencer, who became the Princess of Wales in 1981 |
| 42% | ELEANORRIGBY | 12 | Title woman of song who "lives in a dream" |
| 42% | FROSTY | 6 | Snowman of song who's "a jolly, happy soul" |
| 42% | ARIEL | 5 | Mermaid who sings the song "Part of Your World" |
| 41% | SEE | 3 | Paris-born Lisa ___, novelist who published "The Island of Sea Women" in March 2019 |
| 41% | DANIELLESTEEL | 13 | Novelist who is the fourth best-selling fiction writer of all time |
| 41% | ELIOT | 5 | Poet who wrote "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" |
| 40% | DAVIDBOWIE | 10 | "Space Oddity" singer who cowrote a song in "SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical": 2 wds. |
| 40% | RETRACENACIRRUH | 15 | Exonerated boxer who is the subject of a Bob Dylan song |
| 40% | LORDE | 5 | Teenager who won the 2014 Grammy for Song of the Year |
| 40% | LION | 4 | Creature of song who sleeps "in the jungle, the mighty jungle" |
| 40% | HURRICANECARTER | 15 | Wrongfully imprisoned boxer who's the subject of a Dylan song |
| 40% | ROREM | 5 | Ned who composed the song cycle Evidence of Things Not Seen |