| 100% | NEMEROV | 7 | Poet Howard who wrote "A Primer of the Daily Round" |
| 48% | WARSANSHIRE | 11 | Poet who wrote "no one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark" |
| 45% | TENNYSON | 8 | Poet Alfred who wrote "The Charge of the Light Brigade" |
| 45% | ALLEN | 5 | ___ Ginsberg, poet who wrote "Howl" and a major figure of the Beat Generation |
| 45% | DARWISH | 7 | Poet Mahmoud who wrote the Palestinian Declaration of Independence |
| 44% | 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" |
| 44% | TENNYSON | 8 | Poet who wrote "The Charge of the Light Brigade" |
| 44% | MURIEL | 6 | Spark, who wrote The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie |
| 43% | HOYLE | 5 | Edmond who wrote a treatise on the game of whist |
| 43% | WARSANSHIRE | 11 | Somali-British poet who wrote, “no one leaves home unless / home is the mouth of a shark” |
| 43% | DANTE | 5 | Poet who wrote "In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost" |
| 43% | KEATS | 5 | Poet who wrote "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever" |
| 42% | TENNYSON | 8 | Poet who wrote The Charge of the Light Brigade |
| 42% | COLERIDGE | 9 | Poet who wrote The Rime of the Ancient Mariner |
| 42% | DANTE | 5 | Poet who wrote of the nine circles of hell |
| 42% | ELIOT | 5 | Poet who wrote "Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity" |
| 42% | TENNYSON | 8 | English poet Alfred who wrote The Lady of Shalott |
| 42% | ANNE | 4 | Rice who wrote the upcoming book "Blood Communion: A Tale of Prince Lestat" |
| 42% | ALEC | 4 | Guinness who wrote “My Name Escapes Me: The Diary of a Retiring Actor” |
| 41% | POE | 3 | Poet who wrote the opening line "Once upon a midnight dreary ..." |
| 41% | AIMECESAIRE | 11 | Poet and intellectual who was a founder of the Négritude movement |
| 41% | COCTEAU | 7 | Filmmaker Jean, who made The Blood of a Poet |
| 41% | BAIN | 4 | Donald who wrote a 1963 "memoir" seen in the first words of 17-, 30-, 46- and 60-Across |
| 41% | OGDEN | 5 | Nash who wrote "A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" |
| 41% | OGDEN | 5 | First name of the poet who wrote “Candy / Is dandy / But liquor / Is quicker” |
| 41% | DARIN | 5 | Strauss who wrote the 2020 novel "The Queen of Tuesday: A Lucille Ball Story" |
| 41% | EULER | 5 | Mathematician Leonard of the 18th century who first wrote f(x) to denote a function |
| 40% | GERTRUDESTEIN | 13 | Pittsburgh-born poet who was the subject of a Picasso portrait |
| 40% | LUCRETIUS | 9 | Epicurean poet who wrote On the Nature of Things |
| 40% | HARPERLEE | 9 | Alabaman who wrote the Best Novel of the Century, according to a 1999 Library Journal poll |