| 100% | PRINCE | 6 | He wrote Sinéad O'Connor's Nothing Compares 2 U |
| 62% | FMAJOR | 6 | Key of Sinéad O’Connor’s “Nothing Compares 2 U” |
| 58% | SINEAD | 6 | "Nothing Compares 2 U" singer ___ O'Connor |
| 58% | SINEAD | 6 | "Nothing Compares 2 U" singer O'Connor |
| 56% | NOTHING | 7 | "___ Compares 2 U" (Sinead O'Connor hit) |
| 56% | COMPARES | 8 | 1990 single by Sinead O'Connor, Nothing __ 2 U |
| 53% | SINEAD | 6 | __ O'Connor, Irish singer of Nothing Compares 2 U |
| 52% | NOTHING | 7 | What "compares 2 U" in a 1990 #1 Sinead O'Connor hit |
| 48% | SINEAD | 6 | O'Connor with the 1990 hit "Nothing Compares 2 U" |
| 48% | OCONNOR | 7 | "Nothing Compares 2 U" singer Sinéad |
| 43% | SINEADOCONNOR | 13 | "Nothing Compares 2 U" singer |
| 40% | COMPARES | 8 | Nothing __ 2 U, song written by Prince |
| 39% | SINEADOCONNOR | 13 | "Nothing Compares 2 U" singer who rocked a shaved head: 2 wds. |
| 39% | SINEADOCONNOR | 13 | Singer with the 1990 hit "Nothing Compares 2 U": 2 wds. |
| 38% | SINEADOCONNOR | 13 | Irish singer who had the #1 hit "Nothing Compares 2 U": 2 wds. |
| 36% | SINEADOCONNOR | 13 | Singer whose "Nothing Compares 2 U" was a #1 song for four weeks in 1990 (2 wds.) |
| 35% | XXXXX | 5 | He beat Connors in the 1977 U.S. Open final |
| 35% | IRE | 3 | Bono and Sinead O'Connor's homeland: Abbr. |
| 34% | IRE | 3 | Hozier and Sinead O'Connor's home country: Abbr. |
| 32% | ALITO | 5 | He filled O'Connor's vacated seat |
| 31% | PASCAL | 6 | He wrote "The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of" |
| 29% | SYLVIAPLATH | 11 | Female US poet who wrote "Daddy": 2 wds. |
| 29% | EDWARDFURLONG | 13 | He played John Connor in "Terminator 2: Judgment Day": 2 wds. |
| 29% | JIMMYCARTER | 11 | He became the longest-lived US president this week: 2 wds. |
| 29% | OTIS | 4 | He wrote “Respect,” Aretha’s signature song |
| 28% | CATER | 5 | "___ 2 U" (Destiny's Child hit) |
| 28% | RICHARDBACHMAN | 14 | Stephen King's pen name under which he wrote "The Running Man": 2 wds. |
| 28% | TAS | 3 | U. 2's? |
| 28% | NORI | 4 | "Neither he, ___ can answer..." ("None of us know"): 2 wds. |
| 28% | LTR | 3 | "Talk 2 u ___" (texter's "bye") |