| 100% | SWEETEST | 8 | "Success is counted ___ / By those who ne'er succeed": Dickinson |
| 75% | NEER | 4 | "Success is counted sweetest / By those who ___ succeed": Emily Dickinson |
| 43% | NIT | 3 | It's picked by those who are picky |
| 42% | LONERS | 6 | Those who prefer to be by themselves |
| 39% | EMILY | 5 | "Success is counted sweetest" poet Dickinson |
| 39% | SHEEP | 5 | Animals that may be counted by insomniacs |
| 39% | HBOGO | 5 | Streaming service that was succeeded by Max |
| 37% | STEVEBALLMER | 12 | Microsoft CEO who was succeeded by 14-Across: 2 wds. |
| 36% | DIAMOND | 7 | "___ Lil," play written by Mae West that was a major Broadway success |
| 36% | ART | 3 | "___ is to console those who are broken by life": Van Gogh |
| 35% | BORIS | 5 | He was succeeded by Liz, who was succeeded by Rishi |
| 35% | LOMBARDI | 8 | Coach who said "The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work" |
| 34% | SHEEP | 5 | They may be counted by insomniacs |
| 34% | BENEDICT | 8 | He was succeeded by Argentina's Jorge Maria Bergoglio, who took the name Pope Francis |
| 34% | WORKFORCE | 9 | Those who are employed |
| 34% | GONERS | 6 | Those who are doomed |
| 34% | INS | 3 | Those who were elected |
| 34% | LOSTSOULS | 9 | Those who are adrift |
| 34% | USERSFEE | 8 | Assessment paid only by those who benefit |
| 34% | VICTORY | 7 | Never tasted by those who suffer defeat |
| 33% | ALITTLEMADNESS | 14 | Start of a poem by Emily Dickinson that continues "But God be with the Clown, / Who ponders this tremendous scene" |
| 33% | MAUS | 4 | Graphic novel by Art Spiegelman that depicts an interview with his father who is a Holocaust survivor |
| 33% | RONAN | 5 | 2012 charity single by Taylor Swift that was written about a three-year-old who battled cancer |
| 33% | HEARERS | 7 | Those who are receiving auditory input |
| 33% | LEADERS | 7 | Those who are out in front |
| 33% | DEATHMASK | 9 | Made by Mme Tussaud of those who were guillotined |
| 33% | CALORIES | 8 | These energy units in food are counted by dieters |
| 33% | SKIPASS | 7 | It’s held by those who need a lift |
| 32% | REALISTS | 8 | Those who see things how they are |
| 32% | ABSENTEES | 9 | Those who are missing from a meeting |