| 100% | GENES | 5 | "A person's behavior is greatly influenced by their ___." (passed down in the family) |
| 40% | VOTINGAGE | 9 | A person's majority, it is 18 in the UK |
| 39% | VERUCASALT | 10 | Child in Roald Dahl's "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" who is thrown down a garbage chute by squirrels: 2 wds. |
| 36% | PLACEBO | 7 | A person may be taken in by taking it |
| 35% | AIR | 3 | "In the ___ Tonight," song by Phil Collins that was used in a Cadbury's commercial |
| 35% | UNPERSON | 8 | Someone who's been erased by the Party, in a classic dystopian novel |
| 35% | BAR | 3 | Where a person in charge is making the rounds? |
| 35% | MEHRANKARIMI | 12 | Actor Tom Hanks's character in 2004 comedy-drama "The Terminal" which was inspired by a real-life person named ___ Nasseri: 2 wds. |
| 34% | SCOTS | 5 | Language in which a nutty person might be told "Yer bum's oot the windae" |
| 34% | BEARUP | 6 | Laugh in the face of being strangled by a gorilla, maybe |
| 34% | EVIL | 4 | "Most of the ___ in this world is done by people with good intentions": T.S. Eliot |
| 34% | LIFEGUARD | 9 | Person who sits in a tall chair by the pool |
| 33% | LEVAR | 5 | Burton who will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Children's and Family Emmys in December |
| 33% | EVESDIARY | 9 | Mark Twain tale narrated in the first person by a noted first woman |
| 33% | BOMB | 4 | Piece in the game Stratego that can only be defeated by a Miner |
| 33% | TEMP | 4 | Person filling in a job for the time being, for short |
| 33% | SOAP | 4 | It may be in a dish by the sink |
| 33% | IWAS | 4 | "___ born by the river / In a little tent" (start of Sam Cooke's "A Change Is Gonna Come") |
| 33% | OATH | 4 | Vow by a person being sworn in |
| 33% | CASTLES | 7 | "___ in the Air," 1971 song by Don McLean that was a Billboard Top 40 hit |
| 33% | LUCY | 4 | "___ in the Sky with Diamonds," 1967 song by The Beatles which was inspired by a drawing that Lennon's son made of his classmate |
| 33% | THELIONKING | 11 | Animated film released in 1994 which was influenced by Shakespeare's "Hamlet" and tells the story of a character named Simba: 3 wds. |
| 33% | WONONPOINTS | 11 | Was victorious in the ring, but not by a knockout |
| 33% | ALI | 3 | Jasmine's Prince ___ Ababwa who is granted a wish by the Genie to become a prince temporarily in "Aladdin" |
| 33% | LAERTES | 7 | Character in "Hamlet" who is struck by a poison-tipped sword (we did say the play's a tragedy) |
| 33% | ROLEMODEL | 9 | A person that is often looked at as someone to follow in the footsteps of : 2 wds. |
| 32% | MEMORIALDAY | 11 | Federal holiday in the U.S. in honor of the people who laid down their lives while serving in the armed forces: 2 wds. |
| 32% | PISTACHIO | 9 | Nut from the cashew family that is enclosed in a shell |
| 32% | MEN | 3 | What was "raining" in a 1982 megahit by the Weather Girls |
| 32% | CLUB | 4 | "Crying in the ___," song by Camila Cabello that was her debut single as a solo artist |