| 100% | ARMAND | 6 | Prague-based Australian poet and author, Louis |
| 46% | TAGORE | 6 | Rabindranath __, Indian poet and author |
| 44% | BUKOWSKI | 8 | Autobiographical poet and author of Ham on Rye |
| 44% | LAYAMON | 7 | 12th-century English poet and author of The Brut |
| 42% | MAYA | 4 | Author and poet angelou |
| 41% | PASTERNAK | 9 | Boris ___, famous poet and author who wrote only one novel, "Doctor Zhivago" |
| 41% | SYLVIA | 6 | ___ Plath, famous poet and author who wrote only one novel, "The Bell Jar" |
| 39% | MENANDER | 8 | Greek poet and comic dramatist who authored stage play Dyskolos |
| 39% | CARROLL | 7 | Jim —, poet and musician who authored 1978 memoir The Basketball Diaries |
| 39% | UMBERTOECO | 10 | Author of “Foucault’s Pendulum” and “The Prague Cemetery” |
| 39% | KATEMORTON | 10 | Australian author of 17- and 26-Across: 2 wds. |
| 39% | POE | 3 | Author and poet Edgar Allan ___ of "The Black Cat" |
| 38% | YEVTUSHENKO | 11 | Yevgeny —, Russian poet and author whose works include 1993 novel Don't Die Before You're Dead |
| 37% | EMPSON | 6 | William —, British poet and critic who authored 1930’s Seven Types of Ambiguity |
| 37% | KAVANAGH | 8 | Patrick —, Irish poet and novelist who authored 1938 autobiographical work The Green Fool |
| 36% | LEWIS | 5 | ___ Carroll, pen name for the author and poet Charles Dodgson |
| 36% | MARLOWE | 7 | Christopher —, poet and dramatist who authored stage plays The Jew of Malta and Edward II |
| 36% | SITWELL | 7 | Edith —, English poet and critic who authored 1937 novel I Live Under a Black Sun |
| 35% | BELL | 4 | ___ hooks, pen name for the author and poet Gloria Jean Watkins |
| 34% | WHEELER | 7 | Ella ___ Wilcox, 19th century American author and poet known for "Poems of Passion" |
| 33% | JOHN | 4 | English poet who authored volumes The Rural Muse and The Village Minstrel |
| 33% | ZEPHANIAH | 9 | Benjamin —, poet; author of novels Refugee Boy and Face |
| 33% | LAMOUR | 6 | "The Quick and the Dead" author Louis |
| 32% | FROST | 5 | American poet Robert ___ who authored "The Road Not Taken" and won the Pulitzer four times |
| 32% | AGEE | 4 | Poet and novelist James |
| 32% | SHEL | 4 | Poet and illustrator Silverstein |
| 32% | MIRO | 4 | Poet and Painter, Joan |
| 32% | MAYA | 4 | Poet and memoirist Angelou |
| 32% | HALA | 4 | Poet and novelist Alyan |