| 100% | CHAN | 4 | Charlie who said "Waiting for tomorrow waste of today" |
| 38% | NOMAN | 5 | For whom "time and tide wait," in a saying |
| 37% | GRANT | 5 | President who said "I have never felt any sort of fondness for war" |
| 36% | BRANDONROUTH | 12 | "Legends of Tomorrow" actor who turns 40 today (2 wds.) |
| 36% | PENELOPE | 8 | Wife of 16-Across who waited patiently for his return |
| 36% | MAHER | 5 | Bill who said of his TV monologues "It's all been satirized for your protection" |
| 35% | MALCOLM | 7 | Who said "If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary" |
| 35% | EMPERORPALPATINE | 16 | Film villain who says "Your feeble skills are no match for the power of the dark side" |
| 34% | EYRE | 4 | Literary heroine who says "Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine" |
| 33% | HUNNAM | 6 | Charlie ___, actor best known for "Sons of Anarchy" who was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England |
| 33% | EYRE | 4 | Jane of fiction who says "Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine" |
| 32% | ONONEKNEE | 9 | Waiting for the starting gun, say |
| 32% | IDLE | 4 | Waiting for the next task, say |
| 32% | IDLE | 4 | Wait for a green light, say |
| 32% | IDLES | 5 | Waits for a green light, say |
| 32% | HOLDSOUT | 8 | Waits for a better offer, say |
| 32% | YIELD | 5 | Wait for pedestrians to cross, say |
| 31% | IDLE | 4 | Wait for the light to change, say |
| 31% | AGONY | 5 | Waiting, for the impatient, say |
| 31% | SIMONPEGG | 9 | "Shaun of the Dead" star who left Twitter in 2014, saying it just wasn't for him: 2 wds. |
| 31% | SOAK | 4 | Leave the dishes for tomorrow, say |
| 31% | SETTLE | 6 | Not wait for Mr. Right, say |
| 31% | QUOTER | 6 | One who says, anagram of torque |
| 30% | CASCA | 5 | Who says "Speak, hands, for me!" in "Julius Caesar" |
| 30% | HELD | 4 | Waited for the next available customer service representative, say |
| 30% | UMP | 3 | Official who says "Batter up!," for short |
| 30% | ELOPE | 5 | Not wait for the parents' blessing, say |
| 30% | BRIT | 4 | One who says "loo" instead of "john" |
| 30% | TIDE | 4 | One of two things that wait for no man, it's said |
| 30% | TIME | 4 | One of two things that wait for no man, it's said |