| 100% | NASH | 4 | Poet who wrote "In the Vanities / No one wears panities" |
| 54% | HORACE | 6 | Roman poet who wrote "Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!" |
| 50% | WARSANSHIRE | 11 | Poet who wrote "no one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark" |
| 50% | GAELS | 5 | Ones who wrote in the Ogham alphabet |
| 48% | BYRON | 5 | Poet who wrote "She walks in beauty, like the night" |
| 48% | POPE | 4 | Poet who wrote "Hope springs eternal in the human breast" |
| 47% | ALEXANDERPOPE | 13 | English poet who wrote "Hope springs eternal in the human breast" |
| 45% | PAZ | 3 | Octavio ___, Nobel prize-winning Mexican poet who wrote "As One Listens to the Rain" |
| 45% | NASH | 4 | Poet who wrote "The cow is of the bovine ilk; / One end is moo, the other, milk" |
| 44% | TSELIOT | 7 | Poet who wrote "I grow old ... I grow old ... / I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled" |
| 44% | WARSANSHIRE | 11 | Somali-British poet who wrote, “no one leaves home unless / home is the mouth of a shark” |
| 44% | ELIOT | 5 | Poet who wrote "In the room the women come and go / Talking of Michelangelo" |
| 43% | DANTEALIGHIERI | 14 | Poet who defended writing in the vernacular in "De Vulgari Eloquentia" |
| 43% | ALLENGINSBERG | 13 | Poet who wrote “Everything is holy! everybody’s holy! everywhere is holy!” in a “Footnote” to one of his poems |
| 43% | SALINGER | 8 | J.D. ___, famous author who wrote only one novel, "The Catcher in the Rye" |
| 43% | NASH | 4 | Ogden ___, American poet who wrote "The Turtle" and is known as one of the foremost producers of humorous poetry |
| 42% | VIRGIL | 6 | Poet who wrote the Aeneid |
| 42% | ERASMUS | 7 | Who wrote "In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king" |
| 42% | ERASMUS | 7 | Who wrote "In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king" |
| 42% | MCKUEN | 6 | Poet/lyricist who wrote the 1974 #1 hit "Seasons in the Sun" |
| 41% | TATE | 4 | Poet who wrote the novel "The Fathers" |
| 41% | POE | 3 | Poet who wrote "Quoth the Raven, 'Nevermore'" |
| 41% | OGDEN | 5 | Poet Nash, who wrote the lines in 17-, 24-, 47- and 58-Across |
| 40% | ANITA | 5 | Baker who sang No One in the World and Angel |
| 40% | DANTE | 5 | Poet who wrote of Beatrice in "Divine Comedy" |
| 40% | ELIOT | 5 | Poet who wrote "April is the cruellest month" |
| 40% | OVID | 4 | Roman poet who wrote the "Metamorphoses" |
| 40% | RUMI | 4 | Persian poet who wrote the “Masnavi” |
| 40% | LAYWOMAN | 8 | One who's not in the habit of wearing a habit |
| 40% | POE | 3 | Poet who wrote the line "Quoth the Raven, 'Nevermore'" |