| 100% | ROGUE | 5 | "Going ___" (Sarah Palin memoir) |
| 64% | TODD | 4 | Sarah Palin's husband |
| 64% | IDAHOAN | 7 | Sarah Palin, by birth |
| 64% | MAVERICK | 8 | Sarah Palin, self-descriptively |
| 64% | ALASKA | 6 | Sarah Palin's state |
| 62% | EXGOV | 5 | Sarah Palin, e.g., briefly |
| 62% | TEAPARTIER | 10 | Sarah Palin or Glenn Beck |
| 61% | EXGOV | 5 | Sarah Palin or Arnold Schwarzenegger, informally |
| 60% | HOCKEYMOM | 9 | Sarah Palin called herself an average one |
| 59% | MOOSE | 5 | Meat favored by Sarah Palin |
| 58% | ALASKANS | 8 | People from Sarah Palin's state |
| 57% | TINAFEY | 7 | Sarah Palin impersonator on "Saturday Night Live": 2 wds. |
| 56% | ALASKA | 6 | State where Sarah Palin was once governor |
| 56% | IDAHO | 5 | Birthplace of Aaron Paul and Sarah Palin |
| 52% | FEY | 3 | Comedian Tina who portrayed Sarah Palin on "Saturday Night Live" |
| 52% | AST | 3 | Gp. who once provided security to former Gov. Sarah Palin |
| 51% | TINA | 4 | With 33-Down, impersonator of Sarah Palin on "Saturday Night Live" |
| 49% | SNL | 3 | Sketch show on which Tina Fey debuted her Sarah Palin impersonation: Abbr. |
| 47% | MORE | 4 | Gabrielle Union memoir "We're Going to Need ___ Wine" |
| 47% | MORE | 4 | "We're Going to Need __ Wine": Gabrielle Union memoir |
| 47% | MILEY | 5 | Singer Cyrus who wrote the memoir "Miles to Go" |
| 46% | HBO | 3 | Network whose Sarah Palin movie "Game Change" won five 21-Across awards in 2012 |
| 46% | ROGUE | 5 | Palin book, "Going —" |
| 45% | ISNT | 4 | "This ___ Going to End Well" (2023 memoir by Daniel Wallace) |
| 44% | ADIA | 4 | Sarah McLachlan hit that lost a Grammy to “My Heart Will Go On” |
| 43% | GAMECHANGE | 10 | 2012 HBO movie for which 30-Across won an Emmy for portraying Sarah Palin: 2 wds. |
| 43% | EXGOV | 5 | *Sarah Palin or Arnold Schwarzenegger, informally |
| 43% | PALIN | 5 | "Going Rogue" author Sarah |
| 42% | ALASKA | 6 | "Sarah Palin's ___" of 2010-11 TV |
| 42% | TEAPARTIER | 10 | *Sarah Palin or Glenn Beck, e.g. |