| 100% | LESHAN | 6 | Eda who wrote "It's Better to Be Over the Hill Than Under It" |
| 91% | EDA | 3 | LeShan who wrote "It's Better to Be Over the Hill Than Under It" |
| 50% | MAE | 3 | ___ West, who said "It's better to be looked over than overlooked" |
| 50% | MAE | 3 | West who said "It's better to be looked over than overlooked" |
| 41% | NOOSE | 5 | The loop it's best to be out of |
| 41% | PAR | 3 | Number it's good to be under |
| 40% | ANITA | 5 | Hill who wrote “There is no way to redo 1991, but there are ways to do better,” in a Times essay on the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings |
| 39% | DRSEUSS | 7 | Who wrote "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not" |
| 39% | PEN | 3 | It's said to be mightier than the sword |
| 39% | PEN | 3 | It's said to be "mightier than the sword" |
| 39% | TREES | 5 | According to the poet's oldest son, it was written "by a window looking down a wooded hill" |
| 38% | POE | 3 | Who wrote "I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him" |
| 38% | LUCKY | 5 | "It's better to be ___ than good" (aphorism) |
| 38% | GRACEPALEY | 10 | Author and activist who wrote, “It is the poet’s responsibility to learn the truth from the powerless” |
| 37% | SORRY | 5 | "It's better to be safe than ___" |
| 37% | ONEPIN | 6 | It's often the first to be knocked over |
| 37% | VOLTAIRE | 8 | Philosopher who wrote "It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere" |
| 37% | WAVELENGTH | 10 | It's good for team members to be on the same one |
| 36% | TONICADEBAMBARA | 15 | Author who wrote, “The dream is real, my friends. The failure to make it work is the unreality,” in “The Salt Eaters” |
| 36% | IVANA | 5 | Trump who wrote "The Best Is Yet to Come" |
| 36% | AYNRAND | 7 | Who wrote "Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think" |
| 36% | NOONE | 5 | Who "knows what it's like to be the bad man," according to a 1971 hit by the Who |
| 35% | MARX | 4 | Philosopher who wrote, “The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it” |
| 35% | PAR | 3 | It's bad to be over it |
| 35% | GROOVE | 6 | It's good to be in one |
| 35% | MAEWEST | 7 | She said, "It's better to be 19-Across than 55-Across" |
| 35% | ERMA | 4 | Bombeck who wrote "The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank" |
| 35% | BEHINDBLUEEYES | 14 | 1971 hit from the Who that begins "No one knows what it's like to be the bad man" |
| 35% | ANGER | 5 | It's good to be slow to it |
| 35% | ONESELF | 7 | Something it's good to be |