| 100% | ELM | 3 | "Man's the ___, and Wealth the vine, / Stanch and strong the tendrils twine": Emerson |
| 34% | OTTO | 4 | Man's name that reads the same forward and backward |
| 33% | STU | 3 | Man's name lying between the letters "R" and "V" |
| 32% | ABOUTTOWN | 9 | Man __, men's style magazine of the 50s and 60s |
| 31% | OLD | 3 | Hemingway's "The ___ Man and the Sea " |
| 30% | FADES | 5 | Men's haircuts that are long on top and buzzed on the side |
| 30% | SEA | 3 | Hemingway's "The Old Man and the ___" |
| 30% | ARMS | 4 | Shaw's "___ and the Man" |
| 30% | CHICO | 5 | TV's "___ and the Man" |
| 30% | ARMS | 4 | Shaw's "__ and the Man" |
| 30% | DENG | 4 | Time's Man of the Year for 1978 and 1985 |
| 30% | SEA | 3 | Ernest Hemingway's "The Old Man and the ___" |
| 30% | CHICO | 5 | Classic TV's "___ and the Man" |
| 29% | MERELY | 6 | "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women ___ players" |
| 29% | BILLGATES | 9 | Founder of Microsoft and currently the world's richest man: 2 wds. |
| 29% | QUIFFS | 6 | 50s men's hairstyle upbrushed and set at the front |
| 29% | SEA | 3 | "The Old Man and the ___," Ernest Hemingway's novel |
| 28% | ELIS | 4 | Manning of the NFL and inventor Whitney |
| 28% | MOON | 4 | "...little boy blue and the man on the ___..." ("Cat's in the Cradle" lyrics) |
| 28% | KENYA | 5 | Home of the 2016 men's and women's Olympic marathon winners |
| 28% | ARMYSONG | 8 | Count off the cadence loud and strong tune, with "The" |
| 28% | BLUEMARLIN | 10 | Santiago's catch in "The Old Man and the Sea" |
| 28% | STAGE | 5 | “All the world’s a ___, / And all the men and women merely players”: “As You Like It” |
| 27% | EDGARWRIGHT | 11 | Director of the "Cornetto Trilogy" and 2025's "The Running Man" (2 wds.) |
| 27% | TARZAN | 6 | Vine-swinging man raised by apes in the jungle |
| 27% | ANDYMURRAY | 10 | British tennis player who won the men's singles title at Wimbledon in 2013 and 2016 (2 wds.) |
| 27% | FEMUR | 5 | Longest and strongest bone in the body |
| 27% | PAT | 3 | Rafter who won the US Open Men's Singles championship in 1997 and 1998 |
| 27% | STEERED | 7 | The man fell asleep and ___ his car into a tree |
| 26% | FEMUR | 5 | Longest and strongest bone in the human body |