| 100% | SNOB | 4 | "He who meanly admires mean things," per Thackeray |
| 34% | TLALOC | 6 | Deity whose name means "He Who Makes Things Sprout" |
| 32% | HEALTH | 6 | He who has this has hope, per a Bible verse |
| 31% | SYMBOLIST | 9 | Person who says one thing and means another |
| 31% | SAID | 4 | "She ___ some mean things about him." ("She mentioned some nasty things about him.") |
| 28% | BORE | 4 | "A person who talks when you wish him to listen," per Ambrose Bierce |
| 28% | BORE | 4 | Per an oft-quoted aphorism, someone who, when asked how he’s doing, actually tells you |
| 27% | DAVE | 4 | Who Hal spoke to when he said "sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over." |
| 27% | CYNIC | 5 | "A man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin," per H. L. Mencken |
| 26% | HES | 3 | He who ___itates is lost |
| 26% | ABATOR | 6 | He who improves a nuisance |
| 26% | VOLDEMORT | 9 | He Who Must Not Be Named |
| 26% | HENRYFORD | 9 | He who wrote History is bunk |
| 26% | THETUNE | 7 | He who pays the piper calls __ |
| 26% | REVILE | 6 | Say mean things about |
| 26% | ASPERSE | 7 | Say mean things about |
| 26% | DISPARAGED | 10 | Said mean things about |
| 25% | LOOKBEFOREYOULEAP | 17 | He who hesitates is lost, but also... |
| 25% | JOSEPH | 6 | He who owned the amazing technicolor dreamcoat |
| 25% | INSULT | 6 | Mean thing to say to a person |
| 25% | DUKEELLINGTON | 13 | Jazz legend who composed "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)": 2 wds. |
| 25% | KARENCARPENTER | 14 | "We've Only Just Begun" singer whose last name means "a person who makes things from wood": 2 wds. |
| 25% | TENDERLY | 8 | He who handles a nettle __ is soonest stung |
| 25% | SMUGGLER | 8 | He who brings illicit goods into a country |
| 25% | OTHELLO | 7 | He who “loved not wisely but too well” |
| 24% | WOETO | 5 | "___ him who believes in nothing": Victor Hugo |
| 24% | WOETO | 5 | "___ him who believes in nothing.": Victor Hugo |
| 24% | HORTON | 6 | He hears a Who |
| 24% | AVENUES | 7 | Means of achieving things |
| 24% | BILLCLINTON | 11 | President who probably wishes he never said, "It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is": 2 wds. |