| 100% | OVID | 4 | Who wrote "Poetry comes fine-spun from a mind at peace" |
| 42% | LAHTI | 5 | Actress Christine who wrote "True Stories from an Unreliable Eyewitness: A Feminist Coming of Age" |
| 36% | ANI | 3 | DiFranco who wrote a book of poetry called "Verses" |
| 36% | LINDY | 5 | West who wrote "Shrill: Notes From a Loud Woman" |
| 36% | EGAN | 4 | Jennifer who wrote A Visit from the Goon Squad |
| 36% | ANI | 3 | Singer DiFranco who wrote a book of poetry called "Verses" |
| 36% | OCEAN | 5 | Vuong who wrote the poetry collection “Time Is a Mother” |
| 35% | LECARRE | 7 | John, who wrote The Spy Who Came In from the Cold |
| 35% | OVID | 4 | Poet who wrote "Jupiter from on high laughs at lovers' perjuries" |
| 35% | OXONIAN | 7 | A person who comes from the city of Oxford |
| 34% | IMHIM | 5 | Boastful comment from a guy who's killing it at sports, maybe |
| 34% | AGAIN | 5 | Excited demand from a toddler who just came down the slide, maybe |
| 34% | OCEAN | 5 | Vuong who wrote the elegiac poetry collection “Time Is a Mother” (April, 2022) |
| 34% | ACROBAT | 7 | Person who might walk a fine line at work? |
| 34% | JOHNLECARRE | 11 | British novelist who wrote "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" (3 wds.) |
| 33% | WHATMORECANISAY | 15 | Words from one who's at a loss for words |
| 33% | ALCOTT | 6 | Louisa May ___, novelist who comes from a transcendentalist family who wrote the novel "Little Women" |
| 33% | NOAH | 4 | Comedian Trevor who wrote the memoir "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" |
| 33% | PATTISMITH | 10 | "Because the Night" singer-songwriter who wrote "Babel," a book of poetry and drawings (2 wds.) |
| 33% | CHUCKBARRIS | 11 | TV program creator and host who wrote the memoir "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind": 2 wds. |
| 32% | BERNIEWORRELL | 13 | Composer and founding member of Parliament-Funkadelic who wrote a concerto at age 8: 2 wds. |
| 32% | STOWE | 5 | Who wrote in an 1852 novel “Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good” |
| 32% | LORRIE | 6 | Moore who wrote "A Gate at the Stairs" |
| 32% | ICELANDER | 9 | A person who comes from a Nordic island country |
| 32% | EGAN | 4 | Jennifer who wrote "A Visit From the Goon Squad" |
| 32% | BURGLAR | 7 | Person who steals goods from a home at night |
| 31% | SEAL | 4 | "Kiss from a Rose" singer who came in fourth place in the second season of "The Masked Singer" |
| 31% | RONHOWARD | 9 | "A Beautiful Mind" director who is a Tony away from completing the EGOT: 2 wds. |
| 31% | REASSURE | 8 | Set a mind at ease |
| 31% | LYNN | 4 | Loretta who sang "Don't Come Home A' Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind)" |