| 100% | CHATTERTON | 10 | Thomas —, Bristolian poet and forger who committed suicide in 1770 |
| 87% | CHATTERTON | 10 | Thomas —, English poet and forger who committed suicide in 1770 |
| 33% | ACTON | 5 | Harold —, Italy-born poet and art collector who died in 1994 |
| 33% | ACTON | 5 | Harold —, Italian-born poet and art collector who died in 1994 |
| 32% | CROWLEY | 7 | Aleister —, British occultist and poet who died in 1947 |
| 30% | OGDEN | 5 | Poet Nash, who wrote the lines in 17-, 24-, 47- and 58-Across |
| 29% | SACHS | 5 | Nelly —, poet and dramatist who shared the 1966 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 29% | MOAT | 4 | John —, poet and novelist who co-founded the Arvon Foundation in 1968 |
| 29% | BIERCE | 6 | Ambrose —, US poet and satirist who disappeared in Mexico in 1913 |
| 29% | SYLVIAPLATH | 11 | American poet and novelist who won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for "The Collected Poems" in 1982: 2 wds. |
| 28% | OSCARWILDE | 10 | Irish poet and playwright who wrote only one novel "The Picture of Dorian Gray" in his lifetime: 2 wds. |
| 28% | CARLYLE | 7 | Thomas —, historian and critic who married Jane Baillie Welsh in 1826 |
| 28% | ENNIUS | 6 | Quintus —, Roman epic poet and dramatist who died in 169 BC |
| 28% | RICHARDWILBUR | 13 | American poet behind "Things of This World" who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1957 and 1989: 2 wds. |
| 27% | ROBERTFROST | 11 | American poet behind "A Witness Tree" who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1924, 1931, 1937 and 1943: 2 wds. |
| 27% | CENA | 4 | Muscular actor and "You can't see me" wrestler, John ___ who acted as Peacemaker in the movie "The Suicide Squad" |
| 27% | AUDRE | 5 | Poet and activist Lorde who wrote “Cables to Rage” |
| 26% | ODIST | 5 | Poet who specializes in tributes |
| 26% | ELIOT | 5 | Poet who wrote "In the room the women come and go / Talking of Michelangelo" |
| 26% | AIMECESAIRE | 11 | Poet and intellectual who was a founder of the Négritude movement |
| 26% | CHAN | 4 | Poet and drag artist Wo who performs as The Illustrious Pearl |
| 26% | IDRISELBA | 9 | Actor who played Bloodsport in DC's "The Suicide Squad" and Heimdall in Marvel's "Thor": 2 wds. |
| 25% | ORPHEUS | 7 | Greek poet and musician who married Eurydice |
| 25% | TSELIOT | 7 | Poet who wrote about Grizabella and Mungojerrie |
| 25% | ORPHEUS | 7 | Poet in Greek mythology who married Eurydice |
| 25% | HOW | 3 | Who is confused, and in what manner? |
| 25% | NEMO | 4 | Whom Dory and Marlin found, in film |
| 25% | AMIRIBARAKA | 11 | Poet and Black Arts Movement leader who called himself “a revolutionary optimist” |
| 25% | MENANDER | 8 | Greek poet and comic dramatist who authored stage play Dyskolos |
| 25% | POE | 3 | Poet who wrote "The Bells" and "The Raven" |