| 100% | TSELIOT | 7 | Poet whose work inspired "Cats" |
| 100% | ELIOT | 5 | Poet whose work inspired "Cats" |
| 86% | ELIOT | 5 | Poet T. S. whose work inspired the musical Cats |
| 79% | ELIOT | 5 | Poet whose work Cats is based on |
| 79% | YEATS | 5 | Poet whose work inspired the title of Achebe's Things Fall Apart |
| 78% | ELIOT | 5 | Poet T.S. whose work inspired the musical "Cats" |
| 73% | ELIOT | 5 | Poet T.S. ___, whose work inspired the musical "Cats" |
| 62% | ELIOT | 5 | Poet T.S. ___, whose work inspired the musical 5-Across |
| 62% | DANTE | 5 | Poet whose work helped establish modern Italian |
| 60% | POE | 3 | Poet whose works include "Annabel Lee" and "The Bells" |
| 59% | OVID | 4 | Roman poet whose works include Ars Amatoria |
| 59% | TSE | 3 | Poet on whose work "Cats" is based: Abbr. |
| 58% | VIRGIL | 6 | Roman epic poet whose works include the Aeneid |
| 57% | CLOUGH | 6 | Arthur Hugh —, poet whose works include 1865's Dipsychus |
| 57% | GENET | 5 | Writer Jean whose work inspired Rainer Fassbinder and Todd Haynes |
| 57% | HEINE | 5 | Poet whose works were set to music by Schumann, Strauss and Brahms |
| 56% | RILKE | 5 | Rainer Maria —, Prague-born poet whose works include Duino Elegies |
| 56% | BROOKE | 6 | Rupert —, English poet whose works include Tiare Tahiti and Fafaia |
| 56% | JAGO | 4 | Richard —, 18th-century English poet whose works include The Blackbirds |
| 56% | AUDEN | 5 | Poet whose last work was "Thank You, Fog" |
| 56% | POE | 3 | Edgar Allan ___, author whose work inspired a Baltimore team's nickname |
| 55% | POUND | 5 | Ezra —, US poet whose works include 1920’s Hugh Selwyn Mauberley |
| 55% | DONNE | 5 | John —, English poet whose works include The Storm and The Calm |
| 55% | BURNS | 5 | Robert —, 18th-century Scottish poet whose works include Tam O'Shanter |
| 55% | SOUTHWELL | 9 | Robert —, 16th-century English poet whose works include The Burning Babe |
| 55% | MARC | 4 | Chagall whose work inspired the original production of Fiddler on the Roof |
| 55% | IBSEN | 5 | Playwright whose work inspired the Peer Gynt Sculpture Park in 56-Down |
| 55% | POE | 3 | Author whose work inspired the 1969 gothic-horror film The Oblong Box |