| 100% | WHATACONCEPT | 12 | "Who'd have thought?!" |
| 76% | CHARLI | 6 | D'Amelio who has been most-followed on TikTok |
| 74% | BROWNING | 8 | Robert __, poet who had home thoughts from abroad |
| 70% | ROOSEVELT | 9 | Franklin D. ___, president who had birthday parties emceed by 21-Across |
| 68% | MESSI | 5 | Soccer star who has won a record eight Ballon d'Or awards |
| 67% | TIFFANY | 7 | US teen who had a hit with I Think We're Alone Now |
| 66% | IDEATES | 7 | Has thoughts |
| 66% | DALLAS | 6 | Vice president after whom a U.S. city is thought to have been named |
| 65% | WHOD | 4 | "___ have thought ...?" |
| 65% | WHOD | 4 | "— have thought ...?" |
| 65% | WHOD | 4 | "— have thought?" |
| 65% | WHOD | 4 | "___ have thought ..." |
| 65% | WHOD | 4 | "__ have thought . . ." |
| 65% | RONALDO | 7 | Cristiano ___, Portuguese soccer player who has won the Ballon d'Or trophy five times |
| 64% | SHAW | 4 | Playwright whom Jacques Barzun called “perhaps the most consciously conscious mind that has ever thought” |
| 64% | THATSO | 6 | "Never would have thought" |
| 64% | MESSI | 5 | F.C. Barcelona star who has won the Ballon d’Or a record six times |
| 64% | MICHEL | 6 | ___ Platini, French former soccer player who has won the Ballon d'Or trophy three times |
| 64% | KEVIN | 5 | ___ Keegan, English former soccer player who has won the Ballon d'Or trophy two times |
| 64% | CRUYFF | 6 | Johan ___, Dutch former soccer player who has won the Ballon d'Or trophy three times |
| 64% | MESSI | 5 | Lionel ___, Argentinian soccer player who has won a record-setting seven Ballon d'Or trophies |
| 64% | FRANZ | 5 | ___ Beckenbauer, Dutch former soccer player who has won the Ballon d'Or trophy two times |
| 63% | WHOD | 4 | "___ have thunk it?" |
| 63% | GEE | 3 | "Wow, who'd've thought!" |
| 63% | THEYD | 5 | "You'd think ___ have learned by now" |
| 62% | WHO | 3 | "___ would have thought?" |
| 61% | ORDERER | 7 | One who says "I'd like to have ..." |
| 61% | WOOLF | 5 | Writer who said "One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well" |
| 61% | AUTOPILOTS | 10 | Ones who'd never think of flying? |
| 61% | WHO | 3 | "___ would have thought it?" |