| 100% | PICNIC | 6 | Pulitzer-winning play of 1953 |
| 69% | INGE | 4 | William —, winner of the 1953 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for play Picnic |
| 68% | ALBEE | 5 | Edward ___, American playwright who won three Pulitzer Prizes for three of his plays |
| 59% | OURTOWN | 7 | Pulitzer-winning Thornton Wilder play whose title locale is the village of Grover's Corners (2 wds.) |
| 58% | INGE | 4 | Pulitzer playwright of 1953 |
| 58% | INGE | 4 | Pulitzer dramatist of 1953 |
| 58% | AGE | 3 | Edith Wharton's Pulitzer winning novel "The ___ of Innocence" |
| 57% | CLUTCH | 6 | Like a winning play in the final seconds of overtime |
| 56% | CRUZ | 4 | Nilo —, author of 2003 Pulitzer Prize for drama-winning stage play Anna in the Tropics |
| 55% | WRIGHT | 6 | Doug —, author of Pulitzer Prize for Drama-winning 2003 stage play I Am My Own Wife |
| 55% | EQUUS | 5 | Tony-winning play of 1975 |
| 54% | TWO | 3 | Number of Pulitzer Prizes won by Colson Whitehead |
| 54% | SEASCAPE | 8 | Pulitzer-winning Albee play |
| 52% | SOBIG | 5 | Pulitzer-winning novel of 1925 |
| 52% | RUBEGOLDBERG | 12 | Pulitzer-winning cartoonist of 1948 |
| 52% | INGE | 4 | William, 1953 Pulitzer Prize winner for the Broadway play "Picnic" |
| 52% | OURS | 4 | "One of ___" (Willa Cather novel that won the Pulitzer Prize) |
| 52% | WHARTON | 7 | Edith who won a Pulitzer for The Age of Innocence |
| 52% | OURTOWN | 7 | Pulitzer-winning play set in Grover's Corners |
| 52% | SEASCAPE | 8 | 1975 Edward Albee Pulitzer-winning play |
| 51% | GWENDOLYNBROOKS | 15 | Pulitzer-winning author of the quote |
| 51% | VIETTHANHNGUYEN | 15 | Pulitzer-winning writer of “The Sympathizer” |
| 51% | TARTT | 5 | Pulitzer-winning author of “The Goldfinch” |
| 51% | TARTT | 5 | Pulitzer-winning author of The Goldfinch |
| 51% | EDEL | 4 | Leon who won a Pulitzer for his biography of Henry James |
| 51% | RENT | 4 | One of 10 musicals to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama |
| 50% | BEYONDTHEHORIZON | 16 | Pulitzer-winning 1920 Eugene O'Neill play |
| 50% | OSAGE | 5 | County in a Pulitzer-winning play title |
| 50% | OSAGE | 5 | "August: ___ County" (Tracy Letts Pulitzer-winning play) |
| 50% | LOWELL | 6 | Pulitzer-winning poet of 1947 and 1974 |