| 100% | POE | 3 | Writer whose work describes him to a T |
| 41% | CSLEWIS | 7 | *Deceased writer whose work was the basis for a hit 2005 film |
| 40% | WAITER | 6 | He expects to work in a cafe |
| 39% | ITINERANT | 9 | Describes a voyager, moving places to find work |
| 39% | MAURICE | 7 | & 13A Comedy writer whose work with Laurence Marks includes television sitcom Birds of a Feather |
| 38% | ERMA | 4 | "Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died" writer Bombeck |
| 38% | JOYCE | 5 | Writer whose wife said he's a "genius, but what a dirty mind he has" |
| 38% | THELASTPOETS | 12 | Black Nationalist spoken-word collective whose work was a precursor to hip-hop |
| 37% | ACROBAT | 7 | One whose work requires them to balance a lot? |
| 37% | JOHNSTEINBECK | 13 | He wrote "In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable" |
| 37% | ONTHENOSE | 9 | To a T |
| 37% | JUSTSO | 6 | To a T |
| 37% | PRECISELY | 9 | To a t |
| 36% | ALANMOORE | 9 | Comic-book writer whose work has had many film adaptations, despite his claim that it is “designed to be unfilmable” |
| 35% | FAROCKI | 7 | Experimental filmmaker Harun whose work was deemed “almost too interesting to be art,” in a Times review |
| 35% | DONE | 4 | Cooked to a T |
| 35% | AINTIAWOMAN | 11 | Bell hooks work whose title comes from a line often attributed to Sojourner Truth |
| 35% | NAILSIT | 7 | Does something to a T |
| 34% | MARVELL | 7 | Andrew —, 17th-century poet and satirist whose works include The Mower's Song and Last Instructions to a Painter |
| 34% | MARVELL | 7 | Andrew —, 17th-century poet and satirist whose works include The Mower’s Song and Last Instructions to a Painter |
| 34% | RIGATTI | 7 | Giovanni Antonio —, 17th-century Italian composer whose works include a mass dedicated to the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III |
| 34% | ALLANPOE | 8 | Edgar __, writer whose work deals with mystery |
| 33% | ODE | 3 | "___ to a Nightingale" (Keats work) |
| 33% | ODE | 3 | "___ to a Nightingale" (Keats' work) |
| 33% | ROYALTY | 7 | Payment to a writer |
| 33% | PLUTARCH | 8 | Writer whose work was Shakespeare's primary source for "Julius Caesar" |
| 32% | SCAMP | 5 | To a colleen, he's a spalpeen |
| 32% | INRE | 4 | Concerning, to a memo writer |
| 32% | EER | 3 | Always, to a verse writer |
| 32% | KEATS | 5 | "Ode to a Nightingale" writer |