| 100% | SHERATON | 8 | Thomas —, furniture maker who authored The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing-Book |
| 87% | SHERATON | 8 | Thomas —, furniture maker; author of The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing-Book |
| 38% | MORRIS | 6 | Desmond —, zoologist and artist who authored 1967 book The Naked Ape |
| 37% | MARGARETATWOOD | 14 | Author who won the Booker Prize for "The Blind Assassin" and "The Testaments": 2 wds. |
| 36% | SALMANRUSHDIE | 13 | Author who won the Booker Prize for "Midnight's Children": 2 wds. |
| 35% | BEVERLYCLEARY | 13 | Children's author who wrote the novel "Ramona and Her Mother" (2 wds.) |
| 35% | HINTON | 6 | S. E. ___, "The Outsiders" author who made a guest appearance in the book's film adaptation |
| 35% | MALTHUS | 7 | Thomas —, English economist who authored 1798's An Essay on the Principle of Population |
| 35% | EURIPIDES | 9 | Greek tragic dramatist who authored the plays Medea and Hecuba |
| 34% | RAE | 3 | John —, 19th-century Scottish explorer who authored the book Narrative of an Expedition to the Shores of the Arctic Sea, in 1846 and 1847 |
| 34% | ERNEST | 6 | ___ Hemingway who authored "The Old Man and the Sea" |
| 34% | RICHARDPOWERS | 13 | Author of 18-Across, 40-Across, and the National Book Award-winning "The 9-Down Maker" (2 wds.) |
| 34% | PATTISMITH | 10 | "Because the Night" singer-songwriter who wrote "Babel," a book of poetry and drawings (2 wds.) |
| 34% | DEARY | 5 | Author Terry ___, who in 1993 published the first titles ("The Terrible Tudors" and "The Awesome Egyptians") in the "Horrible Histories" books |
| 34% | KYD | 3 | Thomas —, 16th-century English dramatist who authored The Spanish Tragedy |
| 34% | HOBBES | 6 | Thomas —, English philosopher who authored 1651 book Leviathan |
| 34% | HOBBES | 6 | Thomas -, English philosopher who authored 1651 book Leviathan |
| 34% | SALMANRUSHDIE | 13 | Author who won the Man Booker Prize in 1981 for "Midnight's Children": 2 wds. |
| 33% | ROALDDAHL | 9 | Author of 1964 children's book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory |
| 33% | ALANGARNER | 10 | Author of children's books Elidor and The Moon of Gomrath |
| 33% | KING | 4 | Thomas ___, Indigenous writer who authored "Truth and Bright Water" |
| 33% | JOYADAMSON | 10 | Naturalist who authored books Born Free and Living Free |
| 33% | ROTH | 4 | Author Veronica who wrote the "Divergent" books |
| 33% | ADAMSON | 7 | Joy —, naturalist who authored books Born Free and Living Free |
| 33% | NAST | 4 | Cartoonist Thomas who popularized the Republican elephant and Democratic donkey |
| 33% | JIMMYCARTER | 11 | Former US president who authored the book "The Hornet's Nest: A Novel of the Revolutionary War": 2 wds. |
| 33% | BAUM | 4 | Author who inspired the Gregory Maguire book “Wicked” |
| 33% | GRISHAM | 7 | Author who penned The Firm and The Client |
| 33% | RUDYARDKIPLING | 14 | English author who wrote the children's literature at 18- and 41-Across: 2 wds. |