| 100% | WAR | 3 | "A symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal," according to John Steinbeck |
| 38% | GOD | 3 | "To a ___ Unknown," novel by American author John Steinbeck about the relationship of a man to his land |
| 36% | ASS | 3 | Animal thought of as a slow-witted one |
| 35% | DUDE | 4 | Man's failure, to a point |
| 32% | HASTY | 5 | Type of pudding the men and boys were as thick as, according to "Yankee Doodle" |
| 32% | WROTEAONESENTENCEWILL | 21 | Calvin Coolidge lived up to his reputation as a man of few words when he … |
| 32% | ESAU | 4 | "A man of the field," according to Genesis |
| 31% | MOOCOW | 6 | Kidspeak animal mentioned in the first line of "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" |
| 31% | GRAPES | 6 | "The ___ of Wrath," 1940 film starring Henry Fonda as a sharecropper, based on the eponymous John Steinbeck novel |
| 31% | TENET | 5 | 2020 film starring John David Washington as a secret agent who learns to manipulate the flow of time |
| 31% | AYNRAND | 7 | Who wrote "Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think" |
| 31% | MEET | 4 | "___ the Parents," 2000 film starring Ben Stiller as a man looking to win the approval of his in-laws |
| 30% | LANDY | 5 | John —, Governor of Victoria, Australia, from 2001-06; second man to run a sub-four minute mile |
| 30% | SEANBEAN | 8 | "One of Hollywood's most killable actors," according to a Screen Rant article |
| 30% | DUMBQUESTION | 12 | There's no such thing as this, according to a saying |
| 30% | ARTIST | 6 | James Joyce's "A Portrait of the ___ as a Young Man" |
| 30% | CANDLE | 6 | "___ in the Wind 1997," charity single by Elton John that was rewritten as a tribute to Diana, Princess of Wales |
| 30% | ODE | 3 | "___ to a Superhero," Weird Al's parody of "Piano Man" |
| 30% | ENTERSONESHEAD | 14 | Occurs to a person, as a thought |
| 30% | HITON | 5 | Think of by chance, as a solution |
| 30% | HITON | 5 | Think of, as a solution |
| 29% | MOZART | 6 | According to legend, at age 2 he identified a pig's squeal as G sharp |
| 29% | OWING | 5 | __ to; as a result of |
| 29% | DEDALUS | 7 | Stephen of Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" |
| 29% | DEEP | 4 | Of great depth, as a pool or a thought |
| 29% | ALLOT | 5 | Assign portions, as a piece of land to heirs |
| 29% | LAMB | 4 | Animal Mary had according to a nursery rhyme |
| 29% | ELEPHANT | 8 | Animal that never forgets, according to a proverb |
| 29% | RHINO | 5 | Animal playfully referred to as a "chubby unicorn" |
| 29% | HIPPOS | 6 | Animals that “yawn” as a sign of aggression |