| 100% | PHINEASTBARNUM | 14 | He's famous for the words "There's a sucker born every minute" |
| 61% | PTBARNUM | 8 | Showman associated with the quote "There's a sucker born every minute" |
| 49% | BARNUM | 6 | Musical with the song "There's a Sucker Born Ev'ry Minute" |
| 43% | EVERY | 5 | "There's a sucker born ___ minute" |
| 36% | PULL | 4 | Word on the front door of the Midvale School for the Gifted, in a famous "Far Side" cartoon |
| 35% | DENY | 4 | Last word in the song "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" |
| 34% | ALL | 3 | "He's famous for ___ the wrong reasons." |
| 34% | ALL | 3 | "He's famous for ___ the wrong reasons" |
| 34% | TATER | 5 | Slangy word for the vegetable that's also called a "spud" |
| 33% | NERD | 4 | Type of person Lewis was when he said "We have news for the beautiful people. There's a lot more of us then there are of you." ('84) |
| 33% | MANSE | 5 | House occupied by a Presbyterian minister (yes, there's a word for this!) |
| 33% | ISS | 3 | There's one every year for Person of the Year: Abbr. |
| 33% | NEWAT | 5 | "He's ___ the job" (words for a fresher): 2 wds. |
| 33% | STAN | 4 | Writer Berenstain famous for the Berenstain Bears |
| 33% | LAM | 3 | Word for "flee" that's a homophone of the name of a fleeced animal |
| 32% | LAT | 3 | It's a shortening of the Latin word for "broadest" |
| 32% | NOEL | 4 | (2/3) Pere ___ is the name he goes by in France, which is also a word for a carol |
| 32% | SEMEME | 6 | The word for what a basic linguistic unit means, as "not" for "un-" (when pluralized, it's a palindrome) |
| 32% | STAR | 4 | A word for a performer, like what's in the sky |
| 32% | RETURN | 6 | Another word for the inbound leg of a trip |
| 32% | BLACKSMITH | 10 | He makes a bolt for the door |
| 32% | VOCAB | 5 | The words a person knows, for short |
| 32% | LID | 3 | "There's a ___ for every pot" |
| 32% | WARM | 4 | Word for "affectionate" and "friendly" that aptly describes Disney's beloved Baloo the bear |
| 32% | AGENDA | 6 | It may form the outline for a meeting's minutes |
| 31% | BACKSTAGE | 9 | Word for the area behind a play performance |
| 31% | LOVEISALLAROUND | 15 | 1968 hit for the Troggs, and a hint to what can precede this puzzle's perimeter words |
| 31% | JACKNICKLAUS | 12 | He was nicknamed "The Golden Bear" of golf and holds a record for the highest number of wins in Masters Tournament with six titles: 2 wds. |
| 31% | WHITE | 5 | *He created a famous pig, and wrote for The New Yorker for more than fifty years |
| 31% | AESOP | 5 | He's famous for his fables |