| 100% | MERLE | 5 | Haggard of C and W |
| 74% | MERLE | 5 | Haggard of C & W |
| 50% | MARGAY | 6 | Small, forest-dwelling wildcat of C and S America |
| 46% | NYT | 3 | Competitor of WaPo and W.S.J. |
| 45% | NEIL | 4 | Brother of George W. and Jeb |
| 45% | STEIGER | 7 | Oscar-winning actor who played Napoleon, Mussolini and W. C. Fields |
| 44% | NEIL | 4 | Younger brother of George W. and Jeb |
| 44% | SNOW | 4 | C P —, author of novels Homecomings and Time of Hope |
| 44% | FORESTER | 8 | C S —, author of novels The Commodore and Lord Hornblower |
| 44% | MAUDGONNE | 9 | Irish patriot and muse of W B Yeats |
| 44% | STARTEVERY | 10 | Beginning of a quote by W. C. Fields |
| 43% | MEL | 3 | McDaniel of C&W |
| 43% | SNOW | 4 | C P —, author of the novels Homecomings and Time of Hope |
| 43% | MAUGHAM | 7 | W Somerset —, author of The Sacred Flame and The Bread-Winner |
| 43% | YALE | 4 | Alma mater of George W. and H.W. Bush |
| 43% | THEPAYPALDICK | 13 | Modern-day remake of a W. C. Fields film? |
| 43% | MELANIE | 7 | Full first name of Spice Girls B and C |
| 42% | RITE | 4 | Learning to read and w___ is one of the first things taught in school |
| 42% | HANDY | 5 | W C —, US musician and songwriter whose works include St Louis Blues |
| 42% | POOLSHARKS | 10 | 1915 short film written by and starring W C Fields |
| 42% | YALE | 4 | Connecticut alma mater of George W. Bush and Bill Clinton |
| 42% | RAP | 3 | Genre of N.W.A. and Run-D.M.C. |
| 42% | YALE | 4 | Alma mater of Lupita Nyong'o and George W. Bush |
| 42% | JOHNS | 5 | Captain W E —, pilot and author; creator of adventurer Biggles |
| 41% | IRE | 3 | Home country of W.B. Yeats and J.M. Synge (Abbr.) |
| 41% | TRAVIS | 6 | ___ Kalanick, now-ousted C.E.O. and co-founder of Uber |
| 41% | BETJEMAN | 8 | 20th C poet of A Subaltern's Love Song and Slough |
| 40% | POEMS | 5 | Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy” and W. H. Auden’s “In Memory of Sigmund Freud,” for two |
| 40% | AUDEN | 5 | W H —, author of poetry collections Homage to Clio and The Shield of Achilles |
| 40% | AXIS | 4 | ___ of Evil (term George W. Bush used for Iran, Iraq, and North Korea) |