| 100% | SARTRE | 6 | Who wrote "I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating" |
| 90% | SARTRE | 6 | He wrote, "I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating" |
| 89% | SARTRE | 6 | He wrote "I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating" |
| 45% | WOJNAROWICZ | 11 | Artist and AIDS activist David who wrote, “WHEN I WAS TOLD THAT I’D CONTRACTED THIS VIRUS IT DIDN’T TAKE ME LONG TO REALIZE THAT I’D CONTRACTED A DISEASED SOCIETY AS WELL” |
| 43% | WOODYALLEN | 10 | Who wrote "It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens" |
| 42% | MEL | 3 | Brooks who wrote, “If I cut my finger, that’s tragedy. Comedy is if you walk into an open sewer and die” |
| 42% | SIC | 3 | "That's how it was originally written, mistakes and all" |
| 42% | EEYORE | 6 | Illustrated character who said, “We can’t all, and some of us don’t. That’s all there is to it” |
| 41% | NASH | 4 | Humorist who wrote "Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long" |
| 41% | AHAB | 4 | Literary captain who says, "I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing" |
| 39% | CARLHIAASEN | 11 | "Squeeze Me" author who wrote the novel that 49-Across is based on (2 wds.) |
| 39% | ZOLA | 4 | French author who wrote, “Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it” |
| 39% | SAMANTHABEE | 11 | Comedian who wrote "Cracking Up" and "I Know I Am, but What Are You?" |
| 39% | JUDYBLUME | 9 | Novelist who wrote "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret" and the other three frequently banned books in this puzzle (2 wds.) |
| 39% | LIZLEMON | 8 | Sitcom protagonist who says "I believe that all anyone really wants in this life is to sit in peace and eat a sandwich" |
| 38% | JOHNDONNE | 9 | Who wrote "I am two fools, I know, / For loving, and for saying so / In whining poetry" |
| 38% | PRYOR | 5 | Comedian Richard who wrote "What I'm saying might be profane, but it's also profound" |
| 37% | MITSKI | 6 | Singer who wrote the lyric "Give me one good movie kiss and I'll be alright" |
| 37% | PLATH | 5 | Poet who wrote "I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am" |
| 37% | GLOVES | 6 | I'm the second skin that protects chemist's hands and I always come in pairs. Who am I? |
| 36% | YERTLE | 6 | Kid-lit title character who says "I am the ruler of all that I see!" |
| 36% | YERTLE | 6 | 31-Across title turtle who declares, "I am the ruler of all that I see!" |
| 36% | STYLUS | 6 | I'm a slender and pointed device that helps you take notes. Who am I? |
| 36% | ENTRANTRANT | 11 | "I should've won! I was robbed! It's all rigged!" and the like? |
| 36% | SCAM | 4 | “___ Goddess” (Laci Mosley podcast “dedicated to fraud and all those who practice it”) |
| 36% | CRY | 3 | "It's All Right to ___" ("Free to Be ... You and Me" song) |
| 36% | NIMOY | 5 | Leonard who wrote "I Am Spock" and "I Am Not Spock" |
| 36% | BLUME | 5 | Judy who wrote "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret" |
| 36% | LOUISEGLUCK | 11 | Literature Nobelist who wrote “The great thing / is not having / a mind. Feelings: / oh, I have those; they / govern me” |