| 100% | GEORGEHWBUSH | 12 | Former U.S. president who wrote "A World Transformed" with Brent Scowcroft (4 wds.) |
| 53% | RICHARDNIXON | 12 | Former U.S. president who wrote "In the Arena: A Memoir of Victory, Defeat, and Renewal" (2 wds.) |
| 49% | RONALDREAGAN | 12 | Former U.S. president who wrote "An American Life" (2 wds.) |
| 48% | OBAMA | 5 | Former U.S. president who was honored with a Nobel Peace Prize in 2009 |
| 46% | BARACKOBAMA | 11 | Former U.S. President who wrote "Dreams from My Father," 18-Across, and 29-Across (2 wds.) |
| 44% | BILLCLINTON | 11 | U.S. president who wrote the novels "The President Is Missing" and "The President's Daughter" with 33-Across (2 wds.) |
| 43% | JIMMYCARTER | 11 | Former US president who authored the book "The Hornet's Nest: A Novel of the Revolutionary War": 2 wds. |
| 41% | RICHARDNIXON | 12 | Former U.S. president played by Anthony Hopkins in a 1995 biopic (2 wds.) |
| 41% | OBAMA | 5 | Former U.S. president honored with a Nobel Peace Prize in 2009 |
| 39% | BARACKOBAMA | 11 | Former U.S. President who served as State Senator and U.S. Senator of 48-Across (2 wds.) |
| 39% | COLINPOWELL | 11 | Former US Secretary of State who's a Vietnam vet: 2 wds. |
| 39% | BARACKOBAMA | 11 | Former U.S. President honored with the 2017 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award (2 wds.) |
| 38% | QUAYLE | 6 | Former US vice president who caused a student to spell "potato" incorrectly |
| 38% | BARACKOBAMA | 11 | U.S. president from 2009 to 2017 who was born August 4, 1961 (2 wds.) |
| 38% | HARRYSTRUMAN | 12 | Former U.S. president on five U.S. commemorative postage stamps who was appointed postmaster of Grandview, Missouri (3 wds.) |
| 37% | BARACKOBAMA | 11 | U.S. president who has been listed on the TIME 100 a record 11 times (2 wds.) |
| 36% | OBAMA | 5 | Former U.S. president who won a Best Spoken Word Album Grammy Award for the audiobook of "Dreams from My Father" |
| 36% | RONALDREAGAN | 12 | U.S. President who signed the bill making Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday a federal holiday (2 wds.) |
| 36% | BILLCLINTON | 11 | US president who coauthored 2018's "The President Is Missing" with 31-Across: 2 wds. |
| 36% | DANRATHER | 9 | Former news anchor who's published a collection of essays called "What Unites Us": 2 wds. |
| 35% | ALGORE | 6 | Former vice president who wrote "An Inconvenient Truth" (2 wds.) |
| 35% | FDR | 3 | Former U.S. President on a dime: Abbr. |
| 34% | KELLIEPICKLER | 13 | Former "American Idol" contestant who's hosting a new daytime talk show with Ben Aaron: 2 wds. |
| 34% | JOHNFKENNEDY | 12 | Former US President who authored the Pulitzer Prize-winning book "Profiles in Courage": 3 wds. |
| 34% | MONROE | 6 | Only U.S. President besides Washington for whom a world capital is named |
| 34% | TAFT | 4 | U.S. president who sported a handlebar mustache |
| 34% | TSELIOT | 7 | Who wrote "This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but a whimper" |
| 34% | JAMESMONROE | 11 | US president (1817-1825) who was not a college graduate: 2 wds. |
| 34% | ABRAHAMLINCOLN | 14 | US president (1861-1865) who was not a college graduate: 2 wds. |
| 34% | HARRYTRUMAN | 11 | US president (1945-1953) who was not a college graduate: 2 wds. |