| 100% | PEYO | 4 | One-named Belgian cartoonist who created the Smurfs |
| 54% | NAST | 4 | Cartoonist who created the Tammany Hall tiger |
| 54% | REGSMYTHE | 9 | Cartoonist who created the strip Andy Capp |
| 53% | NAST | 4 | Cartoonist who created the G.O.P. elephant |
| 52% | LOW | 3 | David —, cartoonist who created the character Colonel Blimp |
| 52% | GARYLARSON | 10 | US cartoonist who created The Far Side series |
| 51% | GOULD | 5 | Chester —, US cartoonist who created the Dick Tracy comic strip |
| 50% | CHIC | 4 | & 4D American cartoonist who created the long-running comic strip Blondie |
| 49% | MAXFLEISCHER | 12 | Cartoonist who created characters Koko the Clown and Betty Boop |
| 48% | ADDAMS | 6 | Cartoonist who created a creepy family that shares his own last name |
| 47% | MATT | 4 | Cartoonist Groening who created the Simpsons |
| 47% | NAST | 4 | Cartoonist Thomas who created the GOP elephant |
| 47% | NAST | 4 | Cartoonist Thomas who created the Democrats' donkey |
| 46% | HERCULEPOIROT | 13 | Fictional Belgian detective created by Agatha Christie who is also one of the most famous and long-running characters: 2 wds. |
| 46% | ENO | 3 | Brian who created the album "Reflection," which consists of one 54-minute track |
| 44% | DIK | 3 | Cartoonist Browne who created "Hagar the Horrible" |
| 44% | LOUISAMAYALCOTT | 15 | Author who created the characters named by the starts of 17-, 24-, 49- and 61-Across |
| 44% | SEYMOUR | 7 | Lynn —, Canadian dancer who created the lead role in 1967 Kenneth MacMillan one-act ballet Anastasia |
| 43% | DIK | 3 | Cartoonist Browne, who created "Hagar the Horrible" |
| 43% | ATLAS | 5 | Titan after whom one of the oceans is named |
| 42% | EBENEZERSCROOGE | 15 | One who saw his name upon the stone of a neglected grave |
| 42% | KESHA | 5 | One-named singer who dropped the "$" from her name |
| 42% | DIK | 3 | Cartoonist ___ Browne who created "Hagar the Horrible" |
| 42% | JIMDAVIS | 8 | Cartoonist who created Garfield |
| 42% | ECSEGAR | 7 | Cartoonist who created Popeye |
| 42% | PUNSTER | 7 | One who might tell you the invention of the wheel created a revolution |
| 42% | ARI | 3 | The name of the one who’s gonna last, in “Thank U, Next” |
| 41% | GEOMETER | 8 | Benoit Mandelbrot, for whom the Mandelbrot Set is named, was one |
| 41% | CAPP | 4 | Cartoonist who created Fearless Fosdick |