| 100% | LEFTMOST | 8 | "He ___ of his belongings behind, thinking he would come back in a few weeks.": 2 wds. |
| 38% | TIGERWOODS | 10 | Considered one of the best in golf, he was central figure in a controversy that involved infidelity and ended in his divorce: 2 wds. |
| 37% | TOMCRUISE | 9 | He underwent training, such as learning to fly a helicopter, to perform some of his own stunts in the "Mission: Impossible" films: 2 wds. |
| 36% | DAILYMAIL | 9 | Newspaper behind the hoax about a man who thought he had to run for 26 days instead of 26 miles for the London Marathon: 2 wds. |
| 35% | NATTURNER | 9 | He led a slave rebellion in 1831, and his story was told in a 2016 film: 2 wds. |
| 34% | NICKCARRAWAY | 12 | He is the narrator and a friend of Gatsby in "The Great Gatsby": 2 wds. |
| 34% | APAT | 4 | Seeing him finish his work ahead of time, I gave him ___ on his back: 2 wds. |
| 34% | GORDIEHOWE | 10 | Hockey Hall of Famer with a Detroit bridge named in his honor: 2 wds. |
| 33% | GUYFIERI | 8 | Food Network star who helped feed people in his hometown of Santa Rosa following a devastating wildfire: 2 wds. |
| 33% | GEORGECLOONEY | 13 | Actor who starred in and made his directorial debut with 2002's "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind": 2 wds. |
| 33% | CHRISTIANBALE | 13 | He underwent training, such as martial arts, to perform some of his own stunts in the "Batman" films: 2 wds. |
| 32% | HASBEEN | 7 | "He ___ a man of great fortitude throughout his life": 2 wds. |
| 32% | ARCHIEANDREWS | 13 | Pal of Jughead Jones who will die in one of his many comic book titles this July: 2 wds. |
| 32% | PETSEMATARY | 11 | Horror novel where animals come back to life (and which has a misspelled word in the title): 2 wds. |
| 32% | MARSHAWNLYNCH | 13 | "Beast Mode" running back who came out of retirement in 2017 to play for the Oakland Raiders: 2 wds. |
| 32% | BARRYBONDS | 10 | Considered one of the greatest in baseball, he was a key figure in the BALCO(steroids) scandal: 2 wds. |
| 32% | MICHAELHANEKE | 13 | Austrian director who made a Hollywood remake of his original film "Funny Games" in the year 2007: 2 wds. |
| 32% | HOLLANDTAYLOR | 13 | "Two and a Half Men" actress who came out of the closet in 2015 at age 72: 2 wds. |
| 32% | LANCEARMSTRONG | 14 | A professional road racing cyclist and cancer survivor, he was stripped of all achievements after confirmation of his drug use: 2 wds. |
| 32% | HARLEMSHAKE | 11 | Baauer hit with a record-setting 103.1 million US streams in the week of March 2, 2013: 2 wds. |
| 32% | EDSHEERAN | 9 | "Shape of You" pop singer who had 13 songs on the Hot 100 during a week in 2017: 2 wds. |
| 32% | BERNARDSHAW | 11 | Irish playwright George ___ whose volume of work including "Man and Superman" won him a Nobel Prize in Literature: 2 wds. |
| 32% | BSIDE | 5 | Back of a 45 record: 2 wds. |
| 32% | MATTDAMON | 9 | He underwent training, such as hand-to-hand combat, to perform some of his own stunts in the "Jason Bourne" films: 2 wds. |
| 32% | KATYPERRY | 9 | Starting in 2010, pop singer with a song in the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 for 69 consecutive weeks: 2 wds. |
| 32% | TAMBOURINEMAN | 13 | "Mr. ___," 1965 song written by Bob Dylan which is a part of his album, "Bringing It All Back Home": 2 wds. |
| 32% | OHIOSTATE | 9 | Jesse Owens' school when he set three world records and tied a fourth, in a span of 45 minutes: 2 wds. |
| 32% | ALEXRODRIGUEZ | 13 | Former Yankees slugger who, in his 2012 children's book, is a young baseballer learning the value of practice: 2 wds. |
| 32% | DATASET | 7 | Collection of information in a spreadsheet: 2 wds. |
| 31% | KELSEYGRAMMER | 13 | He played Frasier Crane in a "Cheers" spin-off: 2 wds. |