| 100% | SESE | 4 | 30-year president of Zaire until 1997, Mobutu ___ Seko |
| 42% | SESE | 4 | Mobutu ___ Seko of Zaire |
| 34% | NSF | 3 | France Cordova, once president of Purdue University, was director of this US govt. agency from 2014 until March of this year |
| 32% | SESE | 4 | Zaire's Mobutu ___ Seko |
| 32% | SESE | 4 | Zaire's Mobutu — Seko |
| 32% | SESE | 4 | Zaire's Mobutu __ Seko |
| 32% | OMAR | 4 | ___ Bongo, president of Gabon for 42 years |
| 31% | SESE | 4 | Zairean president Mobutu ___ Seko |
| 30% | EISENHOWER | 10 | 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961 |
| 30% | ROLEN | 5 | 1997 N.L. Rookie of the Year Scott ___ |
| 30% | ROLEN | 5 | 1997 National League Rookie of the Year Scott ___ |
| 29% | ROLEN | 5 | Scott ___, 1997 N.L. Rookie of the Year |
| 29% | APRIL | 5 | First month of the year with 30 days |
| 28% | MALE | 4 | Like every secretary of state until 1997 |
| 28% | APRIL | 5 | First 30-day month of the year |
| 28% | CLINTON | 7 | Bill ___, 42nd President of USA who was Time "Person of the Year" in 1992 |
| 28% | DONALD | 6 | ___ Trump, 45th President of USA who was Time "Person of the Year" in 2016 |
| 28% | GREET | 5 | What a lot of Walmart employees did until last year |
| 28% | DUSTYBAKER | 10 | N.L. Manager of the Year, 1993, 1997 and 2000 |
| 27% | ARLEN | 5 | 30-year senator Specter of Pennsylvania |
| 27% | PERIOD | 6 | Time ____ of 30 years |
| 27% | MCALEESE | 8 | Mary —, president of Ireland from 1997-2011 |
| 27% | SESE | 4 | Zaire's Mobutu ___Seko |
| 27% | JOHNNYCASH | 10 | 30-year host of late-night TV |
| 27% | GEORGEWEAH | 10 | Liberia president since January, 2018; 1995 FIFA World Player of the Year |
| 27% | WEAH | 4 | George —, Liberia president since 2018; 1995 FIFA World Player of the Year |
| 27% | OUST | 4 | What the president did to Mick Mulvaney in March of this year |
| 26% | TALES | 5 | & 14D 1997 Whitbread Book of the Year Award-winning volume by Ted Hughes |
| 26% | SESE | 4 | Mobutu ___ Seko, who seized power in a bloodless coup in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1965 |