| 100% | LEY | 3 | Willy ___ who wrote about rockets |
| 59% | LEY | 3 | Willy who wrote "The Conquest of Space" |
| 59% | EDMOND | 6 | Rostand who wrote about Cyrano |
| 59% | EDA | 3 | LeShan who wrote about children |
| 59% | SEUSS | 5 | Author who wrote about Octember |
| 59% | AMORIST | 7 | Someone who writes about love |
| 58% | WILLA | 5 | Author who wrote about frontier life |
| 58% | NOAM | 4 | Author Chomsky who writes about linguistics |
| 57% | ZANE | 4 | Grey who wrote about the Old West |
| 57% | OVID | 4 | Roman poet who wrote about 33-Across |
| 57% | MASTERS | 7 | __ and Johnson, scientists who wrote about sex |
| 57% | AESOP | 5 | Greek writer who wrote about talking animals |
| 57% | ENID | 4 | Blyton who wrote about the Famous Five |
| 57% | HEIDEGGER | 9 | German philosopher Martin, who wrote about Dasein |
| 57% | TSELIOT | 7 | Poet who wrote about Grizabella and Mungojerrie |
| 57% | ADAMSMITH | 9 | Economist who wrote about an "invisible hand" |
| 57% | ROUSSEAU | 8 | Philosopher who wrote about a social contract |
| 56% | LEY | 3 | Writer Willy who wrote "The Conquest of Space" |
| 56% | ALGER | 5 | Horatio who wrote about down-and-out boys |
| 56% | BAUM | 4 | Author who wrote about the Land of Oz |
| 56% | ORWELL | 6 | George who wrote about Big Brother in 1984 |
| 56% | ROALDDAHL | 9 | Author who wrote about giant peaches and foxes |
| 56% | DAHL | 4 | Author who wrote about James, Charlie and Matilda |
| 56% | RITA | 4 | Willy Russell wrote about educating her |
| 56% | ANNALIST | 8 | Writer who writes about the year's events |
| 55% | PISA | 4 | Leonardo of ___ (mathematician who wrote about the 33-Across) |
| 55% | NIETZSCHE | 9 | German philosopher who wrote about the "will to power" |
| 55% | HERODOTUS | 9 | Father of history who wrote about the Persian Wars |
| 55% | ERNEST | 6 | Literature Nobelist who wrote about Zelda, Gertrude, and Sylvia |
| 55% | SHIRLEY | 7 | Gothic author Jackson who wrote about a certain haunting |