| 100% | PENNAME | 7 | Dogood, for Franklin |
| 70% | PROVERB | 7 | Nugget for Franklin |
| 62% | DIME | 4 | Site for Franklin Roosevelt |
| 60% | STOVE | 5 | Franklin, for one |
| 57% | DEISTS | 6 | Franklin and Jefferson, for two |
| 56% | KITE | 4 | Prop for Ben Franklin |
| 56% | SOUL | 4 | Genre for Aretha Franklin |
| 56% | DNA | 3 | Study for Rosalind Franklin |
| 56% | KITE | 4 | Toy for Benjamin Franklin |
| 56% | QUEENOFSOUL | 11 | *Epithet for Aretha Franklin |
| 54% | BEN | 3 | Founding father Franklin, for short |
| 54% | SOUL | 4 | Music genre for Aretha Franklin |
| 54% | RESPECT | 7 | What Franklin famously asked for |
| 53% | RESPECT | 7 | No. 1 hit for Aretha Franklin |
| 53% | SOUL | 4 | Queen of ___ (nickname for Aretha Franklin) |
| 53% | KITE | 4 | *Accessory for a Ben Franklin costume |
| 53% | CHESS | 5 | Pastime for Napoleon and Benjamin Franklin |
| 53% | BASS | 4 | The Temptations' Melvin Franklin, for one |
| 53% | RESPECT | 7 | The consideration Aretha Franklin asked for |
| 53% | BRIDGE | 6 | Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia, for one |
| 51% | AFRO | 4 | It was once big for Aretha Franklin |
| 50% | SOUL | 4 | Music genre for Aretha Franklin and James Brown |
| 48% | ERIVO | 5 | She was nominated for an Emmy for playing Franklin |
| 47% | RESPECT | 7 | All Aretha Franklin was asking for in her 1967 hit |
| 47% | EARLYTOBED | 10 | Start of a proverb for which Ben Franklin is credited |
| 45% | FREEWAYOFLOVE | 13 | "Thoroughfare" song that was a hit for Aretha Franklin (3 wds.) |
| 42% | BIO | 3 | Walter Isaacson's "Benjamin Franklin" or David McCullough's "John Adams," for short |
| 41% | LOGIC | 5 | Subject for Christine Ladd-Franklin |
| 39% | WAITING | 7 | "I Knew You Were ___ For Me," 1987 romantic duet by Aretha Franklin and George Michael |
| 37% | ARETHA | 6 | Grammy winner Franklin |