| 100% | STEIN | 5 | Writer of the lines "Pigeons on the grass alas. / Pigeons on the grass alas" |
| 43% | POE | 3 | Writer of the line "Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December" |
| 42% | PLIMSOLL | 8 | __ line, marker on the sides of ships |
| 42% | LIVY | 4 | Writer on the history of Rome |
| 42% | MILNE | 5 | Writer of the line "Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?" |
| 41% | MARYORR | 7 | Writer of the story on which "All About Eve" is based |
| 41% | EYEBROW | 7 | Line of hair on the lower forehead |
| 40% | NEG | 3 | On the left half of the no. line |
| 40% | JOHNASHBERY | 11 | Writer of the lines “And the poem / Has set me softly down beside you. The poem is you.” |
| 40% | PLIMSOLL | 8 | __ line, indicator line on the side of ships |
| 40% | LURES | 5 | Used on the end of fishing lines |
| 40% | ZED | 3 | End of a line on the Underground? |
| 40% | LURE | 4 | Thing on the end of a line |
| 40% | TUG | 3 | Sign of a fish on the line |
| 40% | EQUATOR | 7 | Longest line of latitude on the Earth |
| 40% | END | 3 | Football position on the line of scrimmage |
| 39% | LEDGE | 5 | Pigeon's landing place on the side of a building |
| 39% | ALEICHEM | 8 | Sholem __, Russian writer of Fiddler on the Roof |
| 39% | FWD | 3 | Abbr. on the subject line of certain emails |
| 39% | SOD | 3 | Surface of the ground with grass growing on it |
| 39% | AWN | 3 | Slender bristlelike appendage found on the bracts of grasses |
| 39% | OVID | 4 | Writer of the 644-line poem "Ibis" |
| 38% | WOOLF | 5 | Writer of the line “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction” |
| 38% | TRIMMER | 7 | Device to cut grass on the edges of a yard |
| 38% | GENE | 4 | ___ Roddenberry, first TV writer on the Hollywood Walk of Fame |
| 38% | HUMAN | 5 | Rarity on the other end of a help line, nowadays |
| 38% | BRIXTON | 7 | London underground station south of Stockwell on the Victoria Line |
| 38% | NEE | 3 | Word on the first line of Mirren's Wikipedia article |
| 38% | INFERNO | 7 | Source of the line "Let us not speak of them, but look, and pass on" |
| 38% | BARR | 4 | American writer of mystery novels, Nevada ___ who created the fictional detective, Anna Pigeon |