| 100% | PROMISEDLAND | 12 | Destination invoked in King's "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech |
| 51% | MLK | 3 | "I've been to the mountaintop" speechmaker's initials |
| 49% | IVE | 3 | "___ Been to the Mountaintop" (MLK Jr.'s final speech) |
| 49% | IVE | 3 | "___ been to the mountaintop" (quote from MLK's final speech) |
| 47% | MLK | 3 | "I've Been to the Mountaintop" orator, for short |
| 47% | IVE | 3 | "___ been to the mountaintop": King |
| 46% | IVE | 3 | "___ Been to the Mountaintop" (MLK speech) |
| 41% | BEEN | 4 | "I've ___ to the mountaintop" (Martin Luther King, Jr.) |
| 40% | HEIR | 4 | ___ to the throne (next in line to be king, perhaps) |
| 38% | ABEL | 4 | The biblical brother referred to in "Am I my brother's keeper?" |
| 38% | BABOON | 6 | Rafiki is referred to as one in The Lion King |
| 37% | CCME | 4 | Emailer's "I'd like to be kept in the loop" |
| 37% | MEMORY | 6 | Answer to the riddle "I form in an instant and last a lifetime. What am I?" |
| 37% | ABEL | 4 | The brother referred to in the biblical quote "Am I my brother's keeper?" |
| 37% | MARCHING | 8 | When the saints go __ in, I want to be in that number |
| 37% | RID | 3 | "I'll be glad to get ___ of it" ("It's going in the trash") |
| 37% | ABEL | 4 | Brother referred to in the biblical line "Am I my brother's keeper?" |
| 36% | MASHA | 5 | The Seagull character who says, "I dress in black to match my life. I am unhappy." |
| 36% | BAKER | 5 | "I used to be a ___ until I found out I was in it for the dough!" |
| 35% | OWEBACKTAXES | 12 | Be indebted to the I.R.S. |
| 35% | BEEN | 4 | "I've ___ to the Mountaintop" |
| 35% | EMAIL | 5 | Field added to the I.R.S.'s Form 1040 in 2019 |
| 35% | THATSMYQUEUE | 12 | "Oh, I'm supposed to be in the line over there"? |
| 35% | LISP | 4 | "Whose cruel idea was it for the word '___' to have an S in it?" (Steven Wright joke) |
| 35% | BACK | 4 | "It's no use to go ___ to yesterday because I was a different person then," quote from the children's book "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" |
| 35% | JACKIESTILES | 12 | 2016 Women's Basketball Hall of Fame inductee who was the first Division I player to score over 1,000 points in a season: 2 wds. |
| 34% | FREEATLAST | 10 | Spiritual lyric quoted in King's "I Have a Dream" speech |
| 34% | FREEATLAST | 10 | Spiritual cited aspirationally in King's "I Have a Dream" speech |
| 34% | BRUTUS | 6 | To Shakespeare he was "high in all the people's hearts" |
| 34% | BINGCROSBY | 10 | Crooner who sings "I've Got Plenty to Be Thankful For" in the Thanksgiving scene of 17-Across (2 wds.) |