| 100% | MAMET | 5 | Speed-the-Plow playwright David |
| 89% | MAMET | 5 | David, playwright of Speed-the-Plow and Oleanna |
| 67% | MAMET | 5 | "Speed-the-Plow" playwright |
| 67% | MAMET | 5 | “Speed-the-Plow” playwright |
| 67% | MAMET | 5 | "The Cryptogram" playwright David |
| 64% | MAMET | 5 | David ___, American playwright who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1984 |
| 59% | RUDKIN | 6 | David —, playwright whose works include The Triumph of Death and The Sons of Light |
| 58% | LAN | 3 | David —, South Africa-born playwright; artistic director of the Young Vic, London appointed in 2000 |
| 57% | RABE | 4 | Playwright David |
| 57% | MAMET | 5 | Playwright David |
| 56% | MAMET | 5 | David —, author of stage plays American Buffalo and Speed-the-Plow |
| 55% | MAMET | 5 | "American Buffalo" playwright David |
| 55% | EXPEDITE | 8 | Speed the progress of |
| 54% | MAMET | 5 | "Glengarry Glen Ross" playwright David |
| 54% | IVES | 4 | "Venus in Fur" playwright David |
| 54% | RABE | 4 | "Sticks and Bones" playwright David |
| 54% | RABE | 4 | ''Sticks and Bones'' playwright David |
| 54% | MAMET | 5 | “Glengarry Glen Ross” playwright David |
| 54% | IVES | 4 | "Words, Words, Words" playwright David |
| 53% | RABE | 4 | "Streamers" playwright David |
| 53% | RABE | 4 | "Hurlyburly" playwright David |
| 53% | MAMET | 5 | Leading playwright david |
| 52% | MAMET | 5 | “American Buffalo” playwright David |
| 51% | MAMET | 5 | Playwright David who wrote "Glengarry Glen Ross" |
| 50% | TILL | 4 | Plow the field |
| 50% | TILL | 4 | Plow the soil |
| 49% | SHOD | 4 | Ready for pulling the plow, perhaps |
| 49% | MILLER | 6 | The Crucible playwright Arthur __ |
| 49% | EDWARDALBEE | 11 | The Zoo Story playwright |
| 49% | GENET | 5 | The Balcony playwright Jean |