| 100% | ALANKING | 8 | He said "Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers" |
| 30% | CLAWSBUTNOCIGAR | 15 | Groundhog's way of saying he's a nonsmoker? |
| 29% | THEWIND | 7 | Scarlett O'Hara's way of life was gone with this |
| 27% | USAGE | 5 | Way of playing with an idiom, say |
| 27% | ADLAIESTEVENSON | 15 | He said "In America, anybody can be president; that's one of the risks you take" |
| 27% | BIBLE | 5 | With 4-Down, much of the Southeast U.S. is in it |
| 27% | COLIN | 5 | ___ Powell, retired general in the U. S. Army who was honored with his second Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1993 |
| 26% | GARN | 4 | Only U.S. senator with a unit of measure named after him |
| 26% | ACCENT | 6 | Way of saying a language, shows where you're from |
| 26% | POGO | 4 | He said "We have met the enemy and he is us" |
| 26% | TAILWIND | 8 | Nature's way of hastening a flight |
| 26% | DREAMS | 6 | "___ from My Father," Barack Obama's autobiography which was republished when he became US President |
| 26% | HEIGHHO | 7 | Disney song whose title is rhymed with "It's home from work we go" |
| 25% | WCFIELDS | 8 | He said "I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally" |
| 25% | APACE | 5 | Keeping up with changes, being abreast of them |
| 25% | TAILWIND | 8 | Nature's way of speeding up a flight |
| 25% | ONEAL | 5 | Patrick of "The Way We Were" |
| 25% | MANUP | 5 | Macho way of saying "Don't be a wimp": 2 wds. |
| 25% | EISNER | 6 | Will __, US comics artist of A Contract with God |
| 25% | MEMORIES | 8 | Opening croon of “The Way We Were” |
| 25% | BLACK | 5 | Santa appears to be running late, maybe we should look for some signs of him? (1/4) Keep an eye out for his shiny ___ boots |
| 25% | AIL | 3 | Is deserving of a sick note from the doc, say |
| 24% | ISOLATION | 9 | Being kept apart from others because of illness |
| 24% | VENTIMIGLIA | 11 | Actor Milo who says of his "This Is Us" character's onscreen death, "I'm truly heartbroken" |
| 24% | DESADE | 6 | He wrote "It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure" |
| 24% | JOHNSON | 7 | He was US president for the first 20 days of 1969 |
| 24% | BILLYJOEL | 9 | US singer of Just the Way You Are and Piano Man |
| 24% | CONVERSATIONS | 13 | "___ With Myself," a compilation of Nelson Mandela's writing, many of which were written while he was in prison |
| 24% | OKIFWEGOINONIT | 14 | *"Can this be a gift from all of us?" |
| 24% | BRO | 3 | Frat member's way of saying "Dude" |