| 100% | YESMAN | 6 | He never disagrees |
| 55% | YESMAN | 6 | Subordinate who never disagrees: Hyph. |
| 51% | IVE | 3 | "__ never heard of him" |
| 49% | PURPLECOW | 9 | Poet Gelett Burgess wrote that he never saw one |
| 45% | DESIARNAZ | 9 | He wrote, “ ‘I Love Lucy’ was never just a title” |
| 44% | REEDY | 5 | The business man was very g___, he never shared his profits with anyone |
| 43% | TELLER | 6 | Magician who never says how he does his tricks? |
| 43% | EAVE | 4 | The boy had so much fun at Disney Land he never wanted to l___ |
| 42% | RUBE | 4 | Cartoonist Goldberg who never actually built the machines he drew |
| 41% | MRED | 4 | He "will never speak unless he has something to say," in a song |
| 41% | GROUCHOMARX | 11 | He said "Here's to our wives and girlfriends ... may they never meet!" |
| 40% | GEORGE | 6 | With 32-Across, president who probably wishes he never said, "Read my lips: no new taxes" |
| 40% | HATES | 5 | "Jason never touches his veggies, he says he _____ the way they taste" |
| 40% | LEAR | 4 | He wrote "There was an old man of Thermopylae / Who never did anything properly ..." |
| 39% | ORWE | 4 | "Say as he says, ___ shall never go": "The Taming of the Shrew" |
| 39% | MRED | 4 | TV character who "will never speak unless he has something to say" |
| 39% | MRED | 4 | TV horse who "will never speak unless he has something to say" |
| 39% | WHO | 3 | "Never heard of him" |
| 37% | JIMMYCARTER | 11 | President who probably wishes he never said, "I've committed adultery in my heart many times": 2 wds. |
| 36% | RENOIR | 6 | He said "I never think I have finished a nude until I think I could pinch it" |
| 35% | BILLCLINTON | 11 | President who probably wishes he never said, "It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is": 2 wds. |
| 35% | AIM | 3 | Donald Trump had to fire people many times between 2008 and 2015, but fortunately he never had to do this |
| 34% | DALI | 4 | Surrealist who claimed that he had never taken drugs but that he himself was a drug |
| 34% | AFOE | 4 | "He makes no friend who never made ___": Tennyson |
| 33% | TAKESISSUE | 10 | Disagrees |
| 33% | SAYSNO | 6 | Disagrees |
| 33% | DIFFERS | 7 | Disagrees |
| 33% | ATNOTIME | 8 | Never |
| 33% | NOTONCE | 7 | Never |
| 33% | ONNOOCCASION | 12 | Never |