| 100% | JOHN | 4 | Poet ___ Keats who penned the poem "To Autumn" |
| 61% | SARA | 4 | Poet ___ Teasdale who penned the poem "September Midnight" |
| 61% | MAYA | 4 | Poet ___ Angelou who penned the poem "Late October" |
| 60% | FROST | 5 | Poet Robert ___ who penned the poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay" |
| 49% | ODE | 3 | "___ To Autumn," poem by John Keats |
| 44% | HOMER | 5 | Greek poet to whom the Iliad is attributed |
| 43% | WHEATLEY | 8 | Phillis who wrote the poem “On Being Brought from Africa to America” |
| 42% | EAP | 3 | Poet who penned "The Raven": Abbr. |
| 41% | WRITER | 6 | I pen the "script" for the film which the actors bring to life. Who am I? |
| 40% | MARIOPUZO | 9 | Novelist who penned The Godfather |
| 40% | MARIO | 5 | Puzo, who penned The Godfather |
| 40% | PAZ | 3 | Octavio ___, Nobel prize-winning Mexican poet who wrote "As One Listens to the Rain" |
| 40% | ADRIENNERICH | 12 | Poet and feminist who wrote “The moment of change is the only poem” |
| 39% | MARIOPUZO | 9 | American author who penned The Godfather |
| 39% | MOLIERE | 7 | Frenchman who penned the play Tartuffe |
| 39% | MOLIERE | 7 | Frenchman who penned the play Tartouffe |
| 39% | FROST | 5 | Poet who used the starts of 24-, 41- and 55-Across to describe the woods |
| 38% | GRISHAM | 7 | Author who penned The Firm and The Client |
| 38% | RILKE | 5 | Poet who wrote "The Sonnets to Orpheus" |
| 37% | ALLENGINSBERG | 13 | Poet who wrote “Everything is holy! everybody’s holy! everywhere is holy!” in a “Footnote” to one of his poems |
| 37% | GRACEPALEY | 10 | Author and activist who wrote, “It is the poet’s responsibility to learn the truth from the powerless” |
| 37% | SAHL | 4 | Mort —, Canada-born comedian who penned the autobiography Heartland |
| 37% | SAHL | 4 | Mort —, Canadian-born comedian who penned the autobiography Heartland |
| 37% | ODE | 3 | Poem such as Keats's "To Autumn" |
| 37% | RUMI | 4 | Celebrated Persian poet who authored "Masnavi" and is considered to be one of the most widely read poets |
| 37% | LOTION | 6 | "Did you hear about the poet who liked to dip his work in moisturizer? It was poetry in ___" |
| 37% | ADA | 3 | Limón who is the first Latina to be Poet Laureate of the United States |
| 37% | EDNA | 4 | Poet ___ St. Vincent Millay who penned "The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver" |
| 37% | PLATH | 5 | Poet who wrote, "The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt" |
| 37% | VWOOLF | 6 | *Writer who penned the 1927 essay "The Art of Fiction" |