| 100% | LAMAS | 5 | Dalai ___ (Tibetan spiritual leaders, of whom Tenzin Gyatso is the fourteenth) |
| 49% | LAMA | 4 | Tenzin Gyatso is the Dalai one |
| 47% | DALAILAMA | 9 | Spiritual leader of the Tibetan people |
| 45% | DALAILAMA | 9 | Tibetan Buddhist Tenzin Gyatso is the 14th __ |
| 41% | PUTIN | 5 | Leader who was Time's 2007 Person of the Year |
| 41% | CAESAR | 6 | Leader who was warned to beware the Ides of March |
| 40% | DALAILAMA | 9 | Spiritual leader and human rights activist who was awarded the 2015 27-Across (2 wds.) |
| 40% | MAO | 3 | Leader who was the author of "On Protracted War" |
| 39% | LAMA | 4 | Dalai ___ (title for the Tibetan spiritual leader) |
| 39% | CAESAR | 6 | Shakespearean leader who is murdered at the start of Act III |
| 39% | CAESAR | 6 | Roman leader who was warned to beware the Ides of March |
| 39% | SADAT | 5 | World leader who was Time magazine's 1977 Man of the Year |
| 38% | LAMA | 4 | The Dalai ___ (Tibetan spiritual leader) |
| 38% | VLADIMIRPUTIN | 13 | Russian leader who was Time's 2007 Person of the Year: 2 wds. |
| 38% | DONALDTRUMP | 11 | US leader who was Time's 2016 Person of the Year: 2 wds. |
| 38% | POPEFRANCIS | 11 | Vatican leader who was Time's 2013 Person of the Year: 2 wds. |
| 38% | AGAKHAN | 7 | Spiritual leader of the Isma'ili Muslims |
| 38% | ANGELA | 6 | With 33-Across, German leader who was Time's 2015 Person of the Year |
| 38% | DALAI LAMA | 10 | Spiritual leader who wrote "The Joy of Living and Dying in Peace" |
| 37% | ILIA | 4 | Leader ___ II of the Georgian Orthodox Church who was installed on December 25, 1977, succeeding David V |
| 37% | LAMA | 4 | Dalai ___, Tibetan spiritual leader |
| 37% | LAMA | 4 | Spiritual leader The Dalai ___ |
| 37% | BAYARD | 6 | ___ Rustin, African-American civil rights leader who was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom |
| 37% | SPEARHEADED | 11 | Was the leader of |
| 37% | DALAI | 5 | __ lama; spiritual leader of a Tibetan buddhist |
| 37% | DALAILAMA | 9 | The spiritual leader of Tibet |
| 37% | DALAILAMA | 9 | Leader of the Tibetan Buddhists |
| 36% | DALAI | 5 | With 40-Across, spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism |
| 36% | MALCOLMX | 8 | African-American civil rights leader who is celebrated annually on the third Friday of May: 2 wds. |
| 36% | RABBI | 5 | Spiritual leader who reads the Talmud |