| 100% | NAPOLEONIII | 11 | He was defeated and captured at Sedan |
| 43% | JAMESCOBURN | 11 | He and Steve McQueen were pallbearers at Bruce Lee’s funeral |
| 41% | SLOB | 4 | "Maybe he was a ___ at home and didn't even notice the dirt and disorder" |
| 40% | NEMO | 4 | Of his vessel, he revealed " I am at once captain, builder and engineer" |
| 39% | CLOSE | 5 | About to be defeated and shut |
| 37% | NATHANHALE | 10 | Revolutionary War spy who was captured and killed by the British at the age of twenty-one |
| 37% | LANDLUBBER | 10 | He is more at home ashore |
| 36% | TRUMAN | 6 | He was erroneously announced as defeated in 1948 |
| 36% | NERO | 4 | He was emperor at 16, dead at 30 |
| 36% | BRADPITT | 8 | He was Benjamin Button, Achilles, and Mr. Smith |
| 36% | EROS | 4 | He is also known as Cupid and Amor |
| 35% | HARRYHOUDINI | 12 | He was buried in 1915 and died in 1926 |
| 35% | IDRISELBA | 9 | He was in Thor, Pacific Rim and The Wire |
| 35% | JIMCARREY | 9 | He was a cable guy and a pet detective |
| 35% | VASSAL | 6 | He is at the bottom of the feudal system |
| 35% | BOGEYMAN | 8 | He will come and get you if you misbehave |
| 35% | OBAMA | 5 | He defeated McCain and Romney |
| 35% | JACKFROST | 9 | He is nipping at your nose in The Christmas Song |
| 34% | OREILLY | 7 | He was once a factor at Fox |
| 34% | SEVENS | 6 | Be at sixes and __, all muddled up |
| 33% | GENEHACKMAN | 11 | He was Clyde's brother Buck in "Bonnie and Clyde": 2 wds. |
| 33% | JUDE | 4 | He was told to "take a sad song and make it better" |
| 33% | DLII | 4 | Year the Ostrogoths were defeated at the Battle of Taginae |
| 33% | WARREN | 6 | With 33-Across, he was Clyde in "Bonnie and Clyde" |
| 33% | ARLO | 4 | He played at Woodstock between Melanie and Joan |
| 33% | NEAT | 4 | Everything at house was ___ and tidy |
| 33% | BECK | 4 | “I am at your — and call” |
| 33% | ABEL | 4 | He was born in Genesis 4:2 and died in Genesis 4:8 |
| 33% | SALT | 4 | "People like him are the ___ of the earth." (good and honest) |
| 33% | ARLO | 4 | He performed after Melanie and before Joan at Woodstock |