| 100% | COMPOSE | 7 | Scoop me off to write |
| 46% | IOWE | 4 | Punny lyric before ''It's off to work I go'' |
| 45% | CHECKLIST | 9 | Written tasks or reminders to be ticked off |
| 45% | CHECKLIST | 9 | Written tasks to be completed and marked off |
| 45% | GREEK | 5 | What unintelligible writing is to me? |
| 45% | RECIPE | 6 | I creep off to get directions |
| 45% | TOPLINE | 7 | Where to write your name on an I.R.S. form |
| 44% | LITERAL | 7 | I'll tear off, to be exact |
| 44% | LITERAL | 7 | I'll tear off, to be precise |
| 43% | HEIDI | 5 | Schreck who wrote "What the Constitution Means to Me" |
| 42% | PAL | 3 | When I was younger I would write to my pen-___ |
| 42% | REDINK | 6 | What to write write-offs with |
| 41% | ELOPE | 5 | Sneak off to say “I do” |
| 41% | CANDLEWITHHAIR | 14 | "... and I write '___' on the box, which seems to reassure him" |
| 40% | EUCLID | 6 | Who wrote to Ptolemy I "There is no royal road to geometry" |
| 40% | ALDA | 4 | Actor who wrote the memoir “Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself” |
| 40% | RUINED | 6 | I’d run off to have key destroyed |
| 39% | ALDA | 4 | Actor Alan who wrote the memoir "Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself" |
| 39% | CHAST | 5 | The New Yorker cartoonist who wrote "What I Hate: From A to Z" |
| 39% | RETIRINGLY | 10 | "I'm off to bed," said Tom _____ |
| 39% | CUT | 3 | "I hate to ___ you off, but ..." |
| 38% | SHERYL | 6 | I wrote "Lean In" and became the first woman to join Facebook's board of directors |
| 38% | ODES | 4 | They take dedication to write |
| 38% | TYPE | 4 | Use a keyboard to write |
| 38% | TYPING | 6 | Using a keyboard to write |
| 38% | ALDA | 4 | Actor Alan who wrote the 2007 memoir "Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself" |
| 38% | RACES | 5 | Off to the ___ |
| 38% | LINE | 4 | "Drop me a ___" ("Write to me") |
| 38% | GLUE | 4 | "I'm rubber, you're ___, whatever you say bounces off of me and sticks to you" |
| 38% | CAP | 3 | "I doff my ___ to you!" ("Hats off!") |