| 100% | RUKEYSER | 8 | Poet Muriel who wrote, “What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? / The world would split open” |
| 30% | DANA | 4 | Author Spiotta who wrote “Wayward,” about a woman who flees her suburban family life in the wake of the 2016 Presidential election (July, 2021) |
| 28% | ERMA | 4 | Bombeck who wrote If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits? |
| 27% | CLARISSA | 8 | "___ Explains It All," '90s Nickelodeon show about a teenager who tells the audience about the everyday adolescent struggles in her life |
| 27% | LIAR | 4 | One who doesn't tell the truth |
| 27% | LIAR | 4 | One who won't tell the truth |
| 27% | LIAR | 4 | One who never tells the truth, say |
| 26% | LIAR | 4 | One who shies away from telling the truth |
| 25% | SAEED | 5 | Poet Jones who wrote the memoir "How We Fight for Our Lives" |
| 25% | NASH | 4 | Poet who wrote "In the Vanities / No one wears panities" |
| 25% | TWAIN | 5 | Who wrote "When in doubt, tell the truth" |
| 24% | WARSANSHIRE | 11 | Poet who wrote "no one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark" |
| 24% | PANDORA | 7 | She who opened the box full of evils of the world |
| 24% | POE | 3 | Poet who wrote the opening line "Once upon a midnight dreary ..." |
| 24% | TWAIN | 5 | Wit who wrote "When in doubt, tell the truth" |
| 24% | DEEDEE | 6 | Myers who wrote "Why Women Should Rule the World" |
| 24% | AMILLIONJUNES | 13 | Emily Henry novel about a young woman who finds a connection with the son of her family's enemy when he returns home one summer (3 wds.) |
| 24% | DAVID | 5 | Director Lynch about whom Kyle MacLachlan wrote, "I will miss him more than the limits of my language can tell and my heart can bear" |
| 24% | THELITTLELIAR | 13 | Novel by 43-Across about a boy who always tells the truth (3 wds.) |
| 24% | OLIVIA | 6 | Laing who wrote “Everybody: A Book About Freedom,” which asks the reader to “imagine, for a minute, what it would be like to inhabit a body without fear” (April, 2021) |
| 24% | DIOR | 4 | Who said "A woman's perfume tells more about her than her handwriting" |
| 24% | OLSENS | 6 | Duo who sang "No One Tells the President What to Do" |
| 24% | LIAR | 4 | One not telling the truth |
| 24% | ELIOT | 5 | Poet who wrote "In the room the women come and go / Talking of Michelangelo" |
| 23% | WARSANSHIRE | 11 | Somali-British poet who wrote, “no one leaves home unless / home is the mouth of a shark” |
| 23% | JOHNREED | 8 | Journalist who wrote about the October Revolution in "Ten Days That Shook the World" |
| 23% | DEEDEE | 6 | '90s White House Press Secretary Myers who wrote "Why Women Should Rule the World" |
| 23% | PAZ | 3 | Octavio ___, Nobel prize-winning Mexican poet who wrote "As One Listens to the Rain" |
| 23% | ELIOT | 5 | Poet who wrote "This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but a whimper" |
| 23% | NASH | 4 | Poet who wrote "The cow is of the bovine ilk; / One end is moo, the other, milk" |