| 100% | SCOTT | 5 | “Who Is Jill ___?: Words and Sounds, Vol. 1” (2000 début album) |
| 43% | KATE | 4 | Singer and actress whose 2007 debut solo album, Made of Bricks, was a UK no 1 |
| 39% | PRONOUNGODS | 11 | People who are awesome with words like "she" and "them"? |
| 38% | ETERNAL | 7 | British girl group whose 1993 debut album was Always and Forever |
| 38% | DORA | 4 | 10-year-old adventurer who was 7 when she debuted in 2000 |
| 37% | FOLKLORE | 8 | Surprise Taylor Swift album that was released July 24 and debuted at #1 on the Billboard charts |
| 37% | ATE | 3 | Word that sounds like a number ... and is a letter backward |
| 37% | ELTONJOHN | 9 | His "Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy" was the first album to debut at #1 on Billboard |
| 37% | DELASOUL | 8 | US hip hop group whose 1989 debut album was 3 Feet High and Rising |
| 35% | MRAZ | 4 | Jason who had the 2012 album "Love Is a Four Letter Word" |
| 35% | SHERYLSWOOPES | 13 | Former Houston Comets player who was named the WNBA MVP in 2000, 2002, and 2005: 2 wds. |
| 35% | SPICEGIRLS | 10 | A hugely popular girl group who were responsible for the hit songs "Wannabe" and "2 Become 1" |
| 35% | GRAF | 4 | Tennis star Steffi who was ranked No. 1 for a record three hundred and seventy-seven weeks |
| 34% | MOBY | 4 | US musician born Richard Melville Hall who recorded no 1 albums Play and 18 |
| 34% | RICKASTLEY | 10 | English singer and songwriter who recorded 1987 no 1 debut album Whenever You Need Somebody |
| 33% | ALPACINO | 8 | Actor who asks to be called "Dunk" in a Dunkin' Donuts ad in Jack and Jill |
| 33% | CIARA | 5 | Her 2004 debut album "Goodies" featured a #1 and two #2 hits |
| 33% | BRADPITT | 8 | "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" actor who was named People's Sexiest Man Alive in 1995 and 2000 (2 wds.) |
| 33% | GALLAGHER | 9 | English singer and frontman of the band Oasis, Liam, who released his debut solo album in October |
| 32% | VOICE | 5 | With 64-Across, performer who is like the words sounded out at the starts of the answers to the four starred clues |
| 32% | BRADLEYCOOPER | 13 | Actor who starred in and made his directorial debut with 2018's "A Star Is Born": 2 wds. |
| 32% | HEMINGWAY | 9 | American writer Ernest, who won the Nobel in 1954 and whose debut novel was "The Sun Also Rises" |
| 32% | THOMAS | 6 | With 37-Across, inventor who held 1,093 US patents and is called "the Wizard of Menlo Park" |
| 32% | ADELE | 5 | Her debut album was "19" |
| 31% | NAS | 3 | Rapper whose 2012 album "Life Is Good" debuted at #1 |
| 31% | THEBEATLES | 10 | Band whose "White Album" and "Yellow Submarine" were Billboard's top two albums on March 1, 1969: 2 wds. |
| 31% | OTHERSIDE | 9 | A 2000 song by 31-Across, which was the third single from their album "Californication" and confronts addiction problems |
| 31% | PREJUDICE | 9 | Listen Without __ Vol 1; 1990 George Michael album |
| 31% | HOW | 3 | Who is confused, and in what manner? |