| 100% | SEUSS | 5 | Popular author most of whose work is written in anapestic tetrameter |
| 35% | NICHELLENICHOLS | 15 | Actress whose work with NASA is the focus of the documentary “Woman in Motion” |
| 35% | AUSTEN | 6 | Author who wrote "Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance" |
| 34% | RUMI | 4 | Poet whose work was set to music by Philip Glass and Robert Wilson in the chamber opera “Monsters of Grace” |
| 34% | CONVERSATIONS | 13 | Most of them are “monologues delivered in the presence of a witness,” per the mystery author Margaret Millar |
| 33% | ROSE | 4 | Flower whose red variant is considered a symbol of true love in popular culture |
| 32% | ERNESTHEMINGWAY | 15 | Author of the book whose title is circled in the grid |
| 32% | HITMEN | 6 | Guys whose work is in the offing? |
| 32% | MONALISA | 8 | da Vinci's painting, regarded as the most popular work of art in the world : 2 wds. |
| 32% | KAL | 3 | Actor Penn whose character was written out of "House" so he could work at the White House |
| 32% | MARCELDUCHAMP | 13 | French-American painter whose "Self-Portrait in Profile" is a highly recognized work of art: 2 wds. |
| 32% | ASIA | 4 | Most of Turkey is in it |
| 32% | ARGENTINA | 9 | Most of Patagonia is in it |
| 31% | ACLU | 4 | Org. whose work is assisted by many volunteer attorneys |
| 31% | HISTORIAN | 9 | Scholar whose work is a thing of the past? |
| 31% | SAKS | 4 | Retailer whose logo is written in script |
| 31% | STS | 3 | Many of them are numbered in NYC |
| 31% | ARTS | 4 | Many of them are liberal in college |
| 31% | NATO | 4 | Much of Eur. is in it |
| 31% | ELIOT | 5 | George whose most famous work is subtitled “A Study of Provincial Life” |
| 31% | KATIE | 5 | Author Kitamura who wrote “Intimacies,” whose protagonist works as an interpreter at the International Criminal Court in The Hague (July, 2021) |
| 31% | MIDDLEMARCH | 11 | Sixth novel by George Eliot (birthday yesterday) which was written in two pieces that holds a lot of historical value and is considered to be her best work |
| 31% | TINSMITH | 8 | Artisan whose work is featured in this puzzle? |
| 31% | MADE | 4 | Most of the everyday goods are ___ in China |
| 31% | ASIA | 4 | Much of the Silk Road is in it |
| 31% | HTML | 4 | Many pages are written in it |
| 31% | KYLO | 4 | Ren whose high-waisted pants in “The Last Jedi” were the subject of much Internet mockery |
| 31% | JULES | 5 | With 141-Down, author whose work is the basis of this puzzle's theme |
| 31% | AGEE | 4 | Pulitzer-winning author whose name is found in nonconsecutive letters of "page turner" |
| 30% | GRAFTON | 7 | Late author whose daughter wrote, "As far as we in the family are concerned, the alphabet now ends in Y" |