| 100% | NAN | 3 | Robertson who received a Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing in 1983 |
| 45% | TSS | 3 | Nan C. Robertson won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for her account of her struggle with this medical condition (abbr.) |
| 40% | UPTON | 5 | Sinclair who won a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 40% | OLDS | 4 | Sharon who has a Pulitzer Prize for poetry |
| 39% | TONI | 4 | Morrison who won a Pulitzer Prize for her novel "Beloved" |
| 39% | GORE | 4 | Al who received a Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 |
| 39% | FROST | 5 | Robert ___ who received four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry |
| 39% | EDER | 4 | Richard ___ who won a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism |
| 38% | SAM | 3 | Playwright Shepard who won a Pulitzer Prize for "Buried Child" |
| 38% | ALICE | 5 | Novelist Walker who won a Pulitzer Prize for "The Color Purple" |
| 37% | FOY | 3 | Claire who received a 2017 Emmy nomination for her role in "The Crown" |
| 37% | IRA | 3 | NPR host Glass who won a Pulitzer Prize for audio reporting |
| 37% | LAMAR | 5 | Rapper Kendrick who won a Pulitzer Prize in 2018 |
| 36% | UTA | 3 | Hagen who received a Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre in 1999 |
| 36% | JHUMPA | 6 | With 27-Across, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner who wrote 17-Across and 36-Across |
| 36% | IRA | 3 | Songwriter Gershwin who won a Pulitzer Prize for the 1932 musical "Of Thee I Sing" |
| 36% | GEORGEVVATSON | 13 | African American who received a posthumous Medal of Honor for valorous service in W.W. II |
| 35% | MENOTTI | 7 | Italian-American composer who won a Pulitzer Prize for "The Saint of Bleecker Street" |
| 34% | DONNATARTT | 10 | Mississippi novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2014 (2 wds.) |
| 34% | AGEE | 4 | Pulitzer Prize winner for "A Death in the Family" |
| 34% | SYLVIAPLATH | 11 | American poet and novelist who won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for "The Collected Poems" in 1982: 2 wds. |
| 34% | RITADOVE | 8 | U.S. poet laureate who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1987 |
| 33% | RODGERS | 7 | Received the Pulitzer Prize for Oklahoma |
| 33% | SAMSHEPARD | 10 | Writer, actor, and director who won a Pulitzer Prize for the play "Buried Child" (2 wds.) |
| 33% | EDEL | 4 | Leon ___ who wrote a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography on Henry James |
| 33% | FIORELLO | 8 | 1959 Broadway musical that won a Pulitzer Prize for drama |
| 33% | EBERT | 5 | First film critic to win a Pulitzer Prize for criticism |
| 33% | THURBER | 7 | Whom a humor-writing prize is named for |
| 33% | CORAZONAQUINO | 13 | Former Philippine president who received the Fulbright Prize for International Understanding in 1996: 2 wds. |
| 32% | LEONARDS | 8 | Pitts who won the 2004 Pulitzer for Commentary and Roberts who costarred in "Drumline: A New Beat" |