| 100% | SCROOGE | 7 | __ McDuck has always been stingy with his money |
| 46% | ORSONWE/NSLLES | 14 | Film director who said "I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time" |
| 38% | SKIMPON | 7 | Be stingy with |
| 38% | SKIMPSON | 8 | Is stingy with |
| 37% | SKIMPSON | 8 | Is stingy with (2 wds.) |
| 35% | ASISAY | 6 | "My opinion has always been ..." |
| 35% | ASISAY | 6 | "My opinion has always been..." |
| 35% | TRADITION | 9 | How things have always been done |
| 34% | LIAR | 4 | "Success has always been the greatest ___": Nietzsche |
| 34% | PETE | 4 | With 27-Down, his #14 has been informally retired by the Reds (although his own son later wore it) |
| 33% | MISERLY | 7 | Very stingy with money |
| 33% | DRAWN | 5 | Robert Crump's great work has always been this |
| 33% | MASLOW | 6 | Psychologist Abraham who came up with his principle in 1966 that "if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail" |
| 32% | AFOOL | 5 | "__ and his money are soon parted" |
| 32% | OWED | 4 | Was outstanding with money? |
| 32% | FOOL | 4 | "A ___ and his money are soon parted" |
| 32% | FOOL | 4 | A __ and his money are easily parted |
| 31% | IREALLYDIDNTSAY | 15 | With 115-Across, his protest about always being quoted |
| 31% | SCAM | 4 | How a fool and his money are parted |
| 31% | DATESBACK | 9 | Has been around since, with "to" |
| 31% | OBEDIENT | 8 | Always complying with what is asked |
| 31% | KNOWBYNAME | 10 | Be familiar with without having met |
| 31% | NERD | 4 | Guy with his nose always stuck in a book |
| 30% | SCROOGE | 7 | __ McDuck is both rich and stingy |
| 30% | OWING | 5 | Money that has yet to be paid |
| 30% | DEBTALF | 7 | ... Looking back on it, it's weird the rental company was named ___. What does an ET owing money have to do with trucks?
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| 30% | UNDERSTATEMENTS | 15 | "Einstein was smart" and "Bill Gates has money" |
| 30% | OWE | 3 | Have a sum of money to be repaid |
| 30% | CAUSE | 5 | A __ will always have an effect |
| 29% | ANTECEDENT | 10 | The fool in "A fool and his money are soon parted" |