| 100% | SCOTTTUROW | 10 | Best-selling novelist whom Time called "Bard of the Litigious Age" |
| 55% | DANIELLESTEEL | 13 | Novelist who is the fourth best-selling fiction writer of all time |
| 45% | EINSTEIN | 8 | Physicist Albert whom Time called "Person of the Century" |
| 43% | ELVIS | 5 | Presley, one of the best-selling American artists who was called "The King of Rock and Roll" |
| 43% | ANNASEWELL | 10 | English novelist who published only one novel in her lifetime, "Black Beauty," which is one of the top ten best selling children's novels: 2 wds. |
| 43% | AVATAR | 6 | One of the best selling movies of all time |
| 40% | LOUISEPENNY | 11 | Canadian novelist who won the Agatha Award for Best Mystery Novel five times (2 wds.) |
| 39% | MAVISBEACON | 11 | Character whom the Times once called “the grande dame of instructional typing software” |
| 38% | EDITH | 5 | Novelist Wharton who wrote "The Age of Innocence" |
| 37% | CORMAC | 6 | McCarthy whom Stephen King elegized as “maybe the greatest American novelist of my time” (June, 2023) |
| 37% | YSL | 3 | Initials of the well known fashion designer who finally, at the age of 71, married his life-long partner, Pierre Berge |
| 37% | BEATLES | 7 | The best-selling musical act of all time, with the |
| 37% | SALK | 4 | Scientist who was called the "Father of Biophilosophy" in the New York Times in 1966 |
| 36% | JETT | 4 | Rocker Joan who was named the best female guitar player of all time by the Gibson guitar company |
| 36% | BACKINBLACK | 11 | AC/DC album that's one of the 10 best-selling albums of all time |
| 36% | FRANK | 5 | Sinatra, one of the best-selling American artists who had the nickname "Ol' Blue Eyes" |
| 36% | HEYDAY | 6 | The best of times |
| 36% | GOLDENAGE | 9 | The best of times |
| 36% | GOLDENERA | 9 | The best of times |
| 36% | LFRANKBAUM | 10 | *Best-selling novelist who wrote the children's poetry volume "Father Goose" |
| 35% | ROWLING | 7 | Best-selling author who was a runner-up for Time's 2007 Person of the Year |
| 35% | ITWAS | 5 | "— the best of times ..." |
| 35% | PRIESTLEY | 9 | J.B. __; novelist who wrote The Good Companions |
| 35% | DINAH | 5 | Washington who was called "Queen of the Blues" |
| 35% | OSIRIS | 6 | One who was called Lord of the West |
| 35% | NIGEL | 5 | Richards who is generally regarded as the best Scrabble player of all time |
| 34% | NEMO | 4 | Titular character in the best-selling DVD of all time |
| 34% | JAGGEDLITTLEPILL | 16 | 1995 alternative rock album by 59-Across that is one of the best-selling albums of all time |
| 34% | BADROMANCE | 10 | A 2009 hit by Lady Gaga which won two Grammys and has gone on to become one of the best selling singles of all time: 2 wds |
| 34% | COMMERCE | 8 | The activity of buying and selling goods |