| 100% | OVID | 4 | Writer of the 644-line poem "Ibis" |
| 75% | OVID | 4 | Exiled writer of the "curse poem" Ibis |
| 67% | JOHNASHBERY | 11 | Writer of the lines “And the poem / Has set me softly down beside you. The poem is you.” |
| 56% | POE | 3 | Writer of the line "Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December" |
| 56% | STEIN | 5 | Writer of the lines "Pigeons on the grass alas. / Pigeons on the grass alas" |
| 55% | MILNE | 5 | Writer of the line "Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?" |
| 53% | ONESYLLABLETOOLONG | 18 | Final line of the poem |
| 53% | MAGI | 4 | "Journey of the ___," 43 line Christmas poem by T.S. Eliot |
| 51% | ANCIENT | 7 | With 42-Across, subject of the poem that contains the line 17-/65-Across |
| 51% | ORDOESITEXPLODE | 15 | Last line of the Langston Hughes poem "Harlem" |
| 49% | LENIN | 5 | Writer of the "April Theses" |
| 49% | TACITUS | 7 | Writer of the ethnography "Germania" |
| 49% | SHAKESPEARE | 11 | Writer of The Merchant of Venice |
| 49% | JAMESJOYCE | 10 | Writer of the 1918 play "Exiles" |
| 49% | ALANMOORE | 9 | Writer of the graphic novel "Watchmen" |
| 48% | WHARTON | 7 | Writer of The Age of Innocence, Edith |
| 48% | GOGOL | 5 | Writer of the short story "The Overcoat" |
| 48% | LIVY | 4 | Writer of the history "Ab Urbe Condita" |
| 48% | STRAUSS | 7 | Writer of the opera Der Rosenkavalier, Richard __ |
| 48% | LINDGREN | 8 | Writer of the Pippi Longstocking series, Astrid __ |
| 48% | DAPHNE | 6 | Writer of The Loving Spirit, du Maurier |
| 48% | DALAILAMA | 9 | Writer of the autobiography "Freedom in Exile" |
| 48% | PLATH | 5 | Writer of the Bell Jar, confessional poet |
| 48% | CHARTERIS | 9 | Leslie __, writer of The Saint |
| 47% | BENMARCUS | 9 | Writer of The Age of Wire and String |
| 47% | EDEL | 4 | Writer of the five-volume biography "Henry James" |
| 47% | TACITUS | 7 | Writer of The Annals, about Imperial Roman history |
| 47% | DELIACAI | 8 | Writer of the debut 2023 novel Central Places |
| 47% | LONGFELLOW | 10 | Author of an 1841 poem that contains the line spelled out by the circled squares |
| 47% | KUBLA | 5 | "___ Khan," poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge with the line "...and drunk the milk of Paradise." |