| 100% | RILEY | 5 | Poet who wrote "An' the Gobble-uns 'at gits you / Ef you / Don't / Watch / Out!" |
| 39% | ELIOT | 5 | Poet who wrote, “Let us go then, you and I, / When the evening is spread out against the sky / Like a patient etherized upon a table” |
| 35% | DONNE | 5 | Poet who wrote, "Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing" |
| 34% | YOGI | 4 | Berra who said, "If the fans don't come out to the ballpark, you can't stop them" |
| 32% | POE | 3 | Poet who wrote "Quoth the Raven, 'Nevermore'" |
| 32% | ELIOT | 5 | T. S. ___, poet who wrote "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" |
| 32% | CHISHOLM | 8 | 1972 Presidential-primary candidate who said, “If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair” |
| 32% | CHISHOLM | 8 | With 7 Across, she who said, "If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair." |
| 32% | ELIOT | 5 | Poet T.S. who wrote "The Waste Land" |
| 32% | DANTE | 5 | Poet who wrote of the nine circles of hell |
| 31% | VIRGIL | 6 | Poet who wrote the Aeneid |
| 31% | OVID | 4 | Poet who wrote "At night there is no such thing as an ugly woman" |
| 31% | CRAP | 4 | ___ out (throw a 7 when you need an 8 at the dice table) |
| 31% | NASH | 4 | Poet who wrote "In the Vanities / No one wears panities" |
| 31% | AUDEN | 5 | Poet who wrote "For the Time Being" and "Another Time" |
| 31% | NASH | 4 | Poet who wrote "Behold the duck / It does not cluck" |
| 31% | KERR | 4 | Jean who wrote "Please Don't Eat the Daisies" |
| 31% | LUCRETIUS | 9 | Epicurean poet who wrote On the Nature of Things |
| 31% | TATE | 4 | Poet who wrote the novel "The Fathers" |
| 30% | ELIOT | 5 | Poet who wrote "April is the cruellest month" |
| 30% | SHEL | 4 | Poet Silverstein who wrote "Where the Sidewalk Ends" |
| 30% | LARSON | 6 | Cartoonist who said "I don't read or watch TV to get ideas. My work is basically sitting down at the drawing table and getting silly" |
| 30% | OVID | 4 | Roman poet who wrote the "Metamorphoses" |
| 30% | RUMI | 4 | Persian poet who wrote the “Masnavi” |
| 30% | POE | 3 | Poet who wrote the line "Quoth the Raven, 'Nevermore'" |
| 30% | TENNYSON | 8 | Poet who wrote The Charge of the Light Brigade |
| 30% | COLERIDGE | 9 | Poet who wrote The Rime of the Ancient Mariner |
| 30% | POE | 3 | Poet who wrote the line "Quoth the Raven 'Nevermore'" |
| 30% | TENNYSON | 8 | Poet who wrote "The Charge of the Light Brigade" |
| 30% | YEATS | 5 | Poet who wrote, “The falcon cannot hear the falconer” |