| 100% | CLOVEHITCH | 10 | Dylan McDermott's "The ___ Killer" (2018) |
| 53% | PRACTICE | 8 | The __. Dylan McDermott 90s lawyer show |
| 48% | CHUCKY | 6 | The killer doll from the Child's Play franchise |
| 48% | ALONG | 5 | Dylan's "All ____ the Watchtower" |
| 48% | ALONG | 5 | Dylan's "All ___ the Watchtower" |
| 47% | DYLAN | 5 | Actor McDermott who starred in the 2018 Fox series "LA to Vegas" |
| 47% | ASTRO | 5 | Each of the Killer B's of baseball |
| 45% | ELP | 3 | Killer Mike's Run the Jewels bandmate |
| 45% | ILLBEGONE | 9 | With 48-Across, 2018 bestseller by 21-Across/37-Across subtitled "One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer" (3 wds.) |
| 44% | CAIN | 4 | Abel's killer, in the Bible |
| 43% | RIPPER | 6 | Jack the __, killer in London's Victorian East End |
| 43% | RIHANNA | 7 | Hacker portrayer in the 2018 ''Ocean's'' |
| 42% | ANNE | 4 | Queen who's the subject of 2018's "The Favourite" |
| 42% | SOLO | 4 | Han who's the title role of a 2018 film |
| 42% | HAN | 3 | The "Solo" of 2018's "Solo: A Star Wars Story" |
| 42% | TANGLEDUPINBLUE | 15 | Single from Dylan's "Blood on the Tracks" |
| 42% | OSAKA | 5 | Naomi who won the 2018 U.S. Open |
| 41% | HURRICANECARTER | 15 | Wrongfully imprisoned boxer who's the subject of a Dylan song |
| 41% | XIJINPING | 9 | The world's most powerful person, per a 2018 Forbes list |
| 41% | BAEZ | 4 | One of the first to record Dylan's songs |
| 41% | SHAMU | 5 | Seaworld's most popular killer whale in the 1960s |
| 41% | HOUSE | 5 | It's up for grabs in the 2018 midterms |
| 41% | IMAX | 4 | Format for the 2018 movie "America's Musical Journey" |
| 41% | DEAF | 4 | Like the daughter in 2018's "A Quiet Place" |
| 41% | TOONICE | 7 | Lacking the killer instinct, say |
| 41% | FLOWERS | 7 | Brandon, frontman of The Killers |
| 40% | EMMA | 4 | The most popular newborn girl's name in the US in 2018 |
| 40% | INDEX | 5 | The S&P ___ |
| 40% | HARRYKANE | 9 | England's top goal scorer in the 2018 World Cup |
| 40% | DJOKOVIC | 8 | He won the 2018 men's title at Wimbledon: Novak __ |