| 100% | GARBO | 5 | About whom Bette Davis said "Her instinct, her mastery over the machine, was pure witchcraft" |
| 32% | FRASIER | 7 | Titular sitcom character who says, about an enemy, "Charm is the vicious grease with which he oils his flim-flam machine" |
| 31% | LOLITA | 6 | About whom Nabokov said "She was like the composition of a beautiful puzzle - its composition and its solution at the same time" |
| 30% | ANT | 3 | About which the Bible says "Consider her ways, and be wise" |
| 30% | MADEA | 5 | Film character about whom Tyler Perry said "I just don't want to be her age playing her" |
| 30% | DYLAN | 5 | About whom Obama said "There is not a bigger giant in the history of American music" |
| 29% | EEYORE | 6 | Kid-lit character who says "The nicest thing about the rain is that it always stops. Eventually" |
| 29% | IONESKYE | 8 | Say Anything actress who was reportedly named after the isle on which she was conceived |
| 28% | CARLYSIMON | 10 | Frequent collaborator of 42-Across who has said her song "You're So Vain" is not about him (2 wds.) |
| 28% | CODA | 4 | Oscar winner about a teenager who is the only hearing member of her family |
| 28% | ONO | 3 | About whom Lennon said, “She’s the teacher and I’m the pupil” |
| 28% | LOUISCK | 7 | Comic who said "The meal is not over when I'm full. The meal is over when I hate myself" |
| 27% | ATTLEE | 6 | About whom Churchill purportedly said "A modest man who has much to be modest about" |
| 26% | ANGELA | 6 | Davis who said "I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept" |
| 26% | LASTSONG | 8 | Novel by Nicholas Sparks about a 17 year old teen who is sent to stay with her father in the summer, "The ___": 2 wds. |
| 26% | NEWTON | 6 | Who was famously hit over the head with inspiration? |
| 26% | ALEX | 4 | Trebek who says "And the answer is ..." |
| 26% | SUSANN | 6 | Best-selling novelist about whom Gore Vidal said "She doesn't write, she types!" |
| 26% | NAOMIKLEIN | 10 | Author who described her book “Doppelganger” as being about “the horror of the society that flips fascist from within” (September, 2023) |
| 25% | DAYS | 4 | "Dog ___ Are Over" (Florence and the Machine song) |
| 25% | CYNICS | 6 | Ones who say the glass is half empty |
| 25% | CESAR | 5 | Chavez who said, “The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people” |
| 25% | KANYEWEST | 9 | About whom Obama said "He is a jackass. But he's talented" |
| 25% | JAMESDEAN | 9 | Actor who said "Only the gentle are ever really strong" |
| 25% | MCLUHAN | 7 | Marshall who said "the medium is the message" |
| 25% | MARX | 4 | Who said "Revolutions are the locomotives of history" |
| 25% | ELEANOR | 7 | "The Good Place" character who said, "Whenever anyone tells me a story about their life, I always imagine all the people as being super hot" |
| 25% | NERO | 4 | Roman emperor who said before dying "What an artist the world is losing in me!" |
| 25% | DIOR | 4 | Who said "A woman's perfume tells more about her than her handwriting" |
| 24% | ALI | 3 | Boxer who said "I am the greatest" |