| 100% | CHARLESDEGAULLE | 15 | He said "How can anyone govern a nation that has 246 kinds of cheese?" |
| 35% | OPEC | 4 | Association of nations that has a big say in oil prices: Abbr. |
| 31% | TOP | 3 | Kind of hat that can add a couple of inches |
| 31% | EDISON | 6 | He said, "To have a great idea, have a lot of them" |
| 30% | STRING | 6 | Type of cheese that can be peeled from a stick |
| 30% | ROTTEN | 6 | Said of a fruit that has gone bad |
| 30% | ZEBRA | 5 | Animal that has a kind of street crossing named after it |
| 30% | TOTE | 4 | Large kind of bag that can hold a lot of stuff |
| 30% | ELASTIC | 7 | A kind of band that can't play music |
| 29% | ELM | 3 | Type of tree that can have a Dutch disease |
| 29% | ADLAIESTEVENSON | 15 | He said "In America, anybody can be president; that's one of the risks you take" |
| 29% | RENOIR | 6 | He said "I never think I have finished a nude until I think I could pinch it" |
| 29% | PASTA | 5 | Cheese ___, a staple of Italian cuisine that can either be baked or boiled |
| 29% | BAGEL | 5 | Roll that might have a schmear of cream cheese on it |
| 28% | BIRDS | 5 | "___ of a feather flock together," saying that encapsulates how friends share similar interests |
| 28% | HAVEL | 5 | He said, “There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them” |
| 27% | SAMOSA | 6 | Savory pastry whose name has one more letter than that of a Polynesian island nation |
| 27% | BOLOGNA | 7 | Type of deli meat that can be made into a layered cake with cream cheese |
| 27% | ERNE | 4 | Common name for haliaeetus albicilla that can have a wingspan of up to 8 ft. |
| 27% | CORRUPTED | 9 | Said of a computer file that has been damaged |
| 27% | BOCELLI | 7 | Of whom Celine Dion said "If God would have a singing voice, he must sound a lot like …" |
| 27% | GET | 3 | "___ along like a house on fire," saying that encapsulates how friends can become close very quickly |
| 27% | DESK | 4 | Item that George had a contractor modify so he could snooze, in Seinfeld's "The Nap" |
| 27% | NOTEXACTLY | 10 | How else can you say ''That's a bit off''? |
| 26% | CHANCEENCOUNTER | 15 | Bumping into someone, say ... and what the end of each answer to a starred clue can have? |
| 26% | TYPEA | 5 | Kind of personality a go-getter has |
| 26% | METABOLIC | 9 | Kind of reaction that triggers a breakdown? |
| 26% | SUPERMAN | 8 | Hero who says "You can have bones of steel" in a "Got Milk?" ad |
| 26% | YESNO | 5 | Kind of question that can be answered silently |
| 26% | BOSTONCREAM | 11 | Kind of pie that's actually a cake |