| 100% | IRONBUTTERFLY | 13 | "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" band whose name refers to a winged creature: 2 wds. |
| 70% | IMAGINEDRAGONS | 14 | "Radioactive" band whose name refers to winged creatures: 2 wds. |
| 69% | COUNTINGCROWS | 13 | "Mr. Jones" band whose name refers to winged creatures: 2 wds. |
| 45% | RAREEARTH | 9 | "I Just Want to Celebrate" soul band whose name contains a planet (2 wds.) |
| 45% | ANNIELEIBOVITZ | 14 | Celebrity photographer whose name goes from A to Z: 2 wds. |
| 45% | ALEXRODRIGUEZ | 13 | Yankees infielder whose name goes from A to Z: 2 wds. |
| 44% | ALEJANDROSANZ | 13 | Grammy-winning Spanish singer whose name goes from A to Z: 2 wds. |
| 42% | ATTICUSFINCH | 12 | Justice-minded lawyer in "To Kill a Mockingbird" whose last name is a kind of bird: 2 wds. |
| 42% | ACDC | 4 | Band whose name refers to electric currents |
| 41% | SALVADORDALI | 12 | Spanish surrealist whose home in Port Lligat, Catalonia has been converted to a museum: 2 wds. |
| 41% | PABLOPICASSO | 12 | Spanish cubist artist whose antiwar painting "Guernica" was in response to a Nazi bombing: 2 wds. |
| 41% | HANCOCK | 7 | Founding Father whose name refers to a signature |
| 41% | PINKFLAMINGOS | 13 | 1972 John Waters movie whose poster referred to it as "An Exercise in Poor Taste": 2 wds. |
| 41% | SKYWALKER | 9 | 2017 R&B hit by Miguel whose title could refer to a "Star Wars" protagonist: 2 wds. |
| 41% | GEORGIAOKEEFFE | 14 | American artist whose house in Abiquiu, New Mexico has been converted to a house museum: 2 wds. |
| 41% | FAITHHILL | 9 | "Speak to a Girl" singer whose first name is a positive virtue (belief): 2 wds. |
| 41% | CUBALIBRE | 9 | Rum and Coke cocktail whose name dates to a Caribbean nation's independence (2 wds.) |
| 41% | BONSAI | 6 | Japanese art form whose name, translated literally, refers to planting in a container |
| 40% | HIC | 3 | Juice brand whose name refers to a vitamin: Hyph. |
| 40% | JACKSPARROW | 11 | Rakish captain in "Pirates of the Caribbean" whose last name is a kind of bird: 2 wds. |
| 39% | ONEARMEDMAN | 11 | Name used to refer to Frederick Sykes, the main suspect according to the protagonist in 18a: 2 wds. |
| 39% | LANDONDONOVAN | 13 | US soccer great whose name was added to the MLS MVP Award in 2015: 2 wds. |
| 39% | SENECACRANE | 11 | Head Gamemaker in "The Hunger Games" whose last name is a kind of bird: 2 wds. |
| 39% | PYGMYSHREW | 10 | The American ___, a creature believed to be the second smallest mammal in the world: 2 wds. |
| 39% | PELOTON | 7 | Exercise equipment company whose name refers to a pack of bicycle racers |
| 39% | HARDYBOYS | 9 | Fictional young male detectives who first appeared in a 1927 book credited to the pen name Franklin W Dixon: 2 wds. |
| 39% | BLACKSABBATH | 12 | Heavy metal band, fronted by Ozzy Osbourne, whose name's only vowels are A's: 2 wds. |
| 39% | AGORAHILLS | 10 | 2023 Doja Cat hit whose title is a tribute to a town she lived in: 2 wds. |
| 39% | ROLLINGSTONE | 12 | Biweekly pop culture magazine that has been in publication since 1967 and shares its name with a legendary rock band: 2 wds. |
| 39% | FIGHTCLUB | 9 | Group in a 1999 movie whose first rule of membership is not to talk about it: 2 wds. |