| 100% | JULIUSSHULMAN | 13 | American architectural photographer behind "Case Study House No. #22" and whose works gave the genre a new recognition: 2 wds. |
| 30% | BERNARDMALAMUD | 14 | Author whose works "The Magic Barrel" and "The Fixer" each won a National Book Award: 2 wds. |
| 28% | CAPTAINAMERICA | 14 | Patriotic title taken by a new soldier in "The Falcon and the Winter Soldier": 2 wds. |
| 28% | PHILIPROTH | 10 | Author whose works "Goodbye, Columbus" and "Sabbath's Theater" each won a National Book Award: 2 wds. |
| 27% | SATISFYMYSOUL | 13 | Bob Marley and the Wailers song on "Kaya" whose title ends with a music genre (3 wds.) |
| 26% | IDONTCARE | 9 | Song by 17-Across and 28-Across whose debut broke Spotify's single-day streaming record, but peaked at No. 2 on the U.S. "Billboard" Hot 100 behind Lil Nas X's "Old Town Road" (3 wds.) |
| 25% | JESMYNWARD | 10 | Author whose novels "Salvage the Bones" and "Sing, Unburied, Sing" each won a National Book Award: 2 wds. |
| 25% | DAVIDDUVAL | 10 | American pro golfer who was formerly World No.1, and posted a score of 59 in the 1999 Bob Hope Chrysler Classic: 2 wds. |
| 25% | STEVEMCCURRY | 12 | Award-winning American photographer behind the famous photograph "Afghan Girl" that appeared in National Geographic magazine: 2 wds. |
| 25% | NEILGAIMAN | 10 | English author and screenwriter whose work "The Graveyard Book" won him the Newbery and Carnegie medals: 2 wds. |
| 24% | CHEWGUM | 7 | Give the jaws a sweet exercise?: 2 wds. |
| 24% | PAINTS | 6 | Gives the house a new coat |
| 24% | DIANECOOK | 9 | American writer whose debut novel, "The New Wilderness," was shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize (2 wds.) |
| 23% | OJSIMPSON | 9 | No. 32 Running back for the San Francisco 49ers, whose murder case "American Crime Story" revolves around : 2 wds. |
| 23% | SOA | 3 | "And ___ a new chapter begins ...": 2 wds. |
| 23% | EDGARALLANPOE | 13 | American writer who is famous for his work "The Pit and the Pendulum": 3 wds. |
| 23% | MADEOVER | 8 | Gave a new decor to: 2 wds. |
| 23% | MARCELPROUST | 12 | French novelist whose work "In Search of Lost Time" holds a Guinness World Record for longest novel: 2 wds. |
| 22% | ANNIEPROULX | 11 | "The Shipping News" Pulitzer winner and 2007 inductee into the American Academy of Arts and Letters: 2 wds. |
| 22% | FALLOUTBOY | 10 | American band that released the album "Save Rock and Roll" after a hiatus of three years: 3 wds. |
| 22% | ANNPRESTON | 10 | American physician and activist who was the first female dean of a medical school in the world: 2 wds. |
| 22% | HIPTOBESQUARE | 13 | 1986 Huey Lewis and the News hit parodied in a "Sesame Street" song about shapes: 4 wds. |
| 22% | DUCHAMP | 7 | Marcel —, painter and sculptor whose works include 1912's Nude Descending a Staircase, No 2 |
| 22% | EDWINAFINDLEY | 13 | "The Wire" and "Treme" actress who plays a White House butler on "The Residence": 2 wds. |
| 22% | THEFIREOFLIFE | 13 | Salman Rushdie's work, "Luka and ___," which is a sequel to "Haroun and the Sea of Stories": 4 wds. |
| 22% | MRT | 3 | "Rocky III" and "The A-Team" character: 2 wds. |
| 22% | SIMON | 5 | Conceptual artist whose work Shedboatshed (Mobile Architecture No 2) won him the 2005 Turner Prize |
| 21% | THEPOWEROFLOVE | 14 | No. 1 hit by Huey Lewis and the News that was featured in the 1985 film "Back to the Future" (4 wds.) |
| 21% | RICHARDWILBUR | 13 | American poet behind "Things of This World" who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1957 and 1989: 2 wds. |