| 100% | DELANEY | 7 | Shelagh —, author of 1958 stage play A Taste of Honey |
| 51% | BOLT | 4 | Robert —, author of 1960 stage play A Man for All Seasons |
| 45% | TRISTANTZARA | 12 | Romania-born French author of 1921 stage play The Gas Heart best known as a founder of Dadaism |
| 43% | EDWARDBOND | 10 | Author of 1965 stage play Saved |
| 43% | JOHNWHITING | 11 | Author of 1961 stage play The Devils |
| 42% | THOMASKILROY | 12 | Author of 2010 stage play Christ Deliver Us! |
| 42% | OOGIE | 5 | A Taste of Honey's repeated rhyme Boogie __ |
| 42% | PETERSHAFFER | 12 | Author of the stage plays Equus and Amadeus |
| 42% | BOND | 4 | Edward —, author of 1965 stage play Saved |
| 42% | SWEETNESS | 9 | Describes a taste of honey or sugar |
| 41% | OTWAY | 5 | Thomas —, English author of 1675 stage play Alcibiades |
| 41% | JARRY | 5 | Alfred —, author of 1896 stage play Ubu Roi |
| 41% | DRINKWATER | 10 | John —, author of 1918 stage play Abraham Lincoln |
| 41% | WILLY | 5 | & 14D Author of 1980 stage play Educating Rita |
| 41% | SYNGE | 5 | J M —, author of 1907 stage play The Playboy of the Western World |
| 41% | DAVIDMAMET | 10 | Author of the stage plays American Buffalo and Speed-the-Plow |
| 41% | FARQUHAR | 8 | George —, author of 1707 stage play The Beaux' Stratagem |
| 40% | LORCA | 5 | Federico Garcia —, Spanish poet; author of 1934 stage play Yerma |
| 40% | FIERSTEIN | 9 | Harvey —, actor; author of 1981 stage play Torch Song Trilogy |
| 40% | SHERRIFF | 8 | R C —, author of 1928 stage play Journey's End |
| 40% | CAPEK | 5 | Karel —, Czech author of 1921 stage play R U R |
| 40% | DUNN | 4 | Nell —, author of the stage plays Steaming and Cancer Tales |
| 40% | ANOUILH | 7 | Jean —, French author of the stage plays Antigone and Becket |
| 40% | OCASEY | 6 | Sean —, author of the stage play The Plough and the Stars |
| 40% | HARE | 4 | David —, author of the stage plays Gethsemane and The Vertical Hour |
| 40% | FRAYN | 5 | Michael —, author of the stage plays Alphabetical Order and Noises Off |
| 39% | ALBEE | 5 | Edward —, author of 1962 stage play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |