| LESLIEKNOPE | Parks and Recreation character who's credited with writing the 2011 book Pawnee: The Greatest Town in America: 2 wds. |
| BARNEYSTINSON | How I Met Your Mother character who's credited with writing the 2008 book The Bro Code: 2 wds. |
| RONBURGUNDY | Anchorman character who's credited with writing the 2013 book Let Me Off at the Top! My Classy Life and Other Musings: 2 wds. |
| ANN | "Parks and Recreation" character who's a nurse |
| SUN | Chinese general and strategist credited with writing the 13-chapter military treatise The Art of War in the 5th century BC (3) |
| TZU | Chinese general and strategist credited with writing the 13-chapter military treatise The Art of War in the 5th century BC (3) |
| HOMER | Ancient Greek poet credited with writing the Iliad and the Odyssey (5) |
| RON | "Parks and Recreation" character who says "Fishing relaxes me. It's like yoga, except I still get to kill something" |
| STURLUSON | Icelandic historian and poet credited with writing the Younger (or Prose) Edda, c. 1220 (6,9) |
| RONSWANSON | Parks and Recreation character who says, "There's only one thing I hate more than lying: skim milk ... which is water that's lying about being milk" |
| LESLIE | "Parks and Recreation" character who is besties with Ann |
| ADALOVELACE | English mathematician credited with writing the first computer programme in 1842/43 (3,8) |
| LAOTSE | Philosopher credited with writing the "Tao Te Ching" |
| MADOFF | Bernie __, subject of the 2011 book "The Wizard of Lies" |
| ESPN | Subject of the 2011 book "These Guys Have All the Fun" |
| PALIN | Subject of the 2011 book "The Rogue" |
| EVIE | ___ Shockley, poet who wrote the 2011 book "the new black" |
| BERRA | Yankee Yogi who's credited with saying "When you come to a fork in the road, take it" |
| EDEN | "When the Garden Was ___" (2011 book and 2014 documentary about the 1970s Knicks) |
| CLARENCE | Darrow referred to as the "Attorney for the Damned" in a 2011 book by John A. Farrell |
