| 100% | EQUAL | 5 | How all men are created, per the Declaration of Independence |
| 40% | JEFFERSON | 9 | President, drafted the Declaration of Independence |
| 40% | ALLMEN | 6 | They're "created equal," in the Declaration of Independence |
| 40% | SAMUELADAMS | 11 | Signer of the Declaration of Independence whose name was borrowed for a brand of specialty beers (2 wds.) |
| 40% | JOHNHANCOCK | 11 | Signer of the Declaration of Independence whose name was borrowed for an insurance/financial services company (2 wds.) |
| 40% | ROBT | 4 | ___ Morris, signature on the Declaration of Independence |
| 40% | SAML | 4 | ___ Adams, signature on the Declaration of Independence |
| 40% | WYTHE | 5 | George who signed the Declaration of Independence |
| 39% | SAML | 4 | With 72-Down, a signature on the Declaration of Independence |
| 39% | ARGONGAS | 8 | Substance used to preserve the Declaration of Independence |
| 38% | GOD | 3 | Word in the Declaration of Independence but not the Constitution |
| 38% | GOD | 3 | "That infinite All of which man knows himself to be a finite part," per Tolstoy |
| 38% | SARAZEN | 7 | Gene who was the first man to win all four of golf’s modern majors |
| 38% | THOS | 4 | Heyward, Stone or Nelson, as each signed the Declaration of Independence |
| 38% | NPR | 3 | Media org. that tweets the Declaration of Independence on July 4 |
| 37% | JOSIAHBARTLETT | 14 | Signer of the Declaration of Independence whose name was borrowed for a character on "The West Wing" (minus the last letter) (2 wds.) |
| 37% | TWOS | 4 | U.S. bills that depict the Declaration of Independence signing on their backs |
| 36% | EQUAL | 5 | "All men are created ___" |
| 35% | MATTDRUDGE | 10 | Personality who created a famous report and who Tucker Carlson recently said was "firmly a man of the progressive left" |
| 35% | BYACCIDENT | 10 | How all the theme answers were invented or discovered |
| 35% | THOMASJEFFERSON | 15 | Chief drafter of the Declaration of Independence |
| 35% | WHEN | 4 | First word of the Declaration of Independence |
| 35% | SAMUELADAMS | 11 | Declaration of Independence signer for whom a brand of beer is named: 2 wds. |
| 35% | LED | 3 | Was the front man of |
| 35% | CGI | 3 | How mutant superpowers are created on the silver screen (abbr.) |
| 34% | TONYSTARK | 9 | What Iron Man is called out of the suit |
| 34% | SINNERS | 7 | What all people are, per the Bible |
| 34% | HAYWIRE | 7 | Being out of order, all over the place |
| 34% | ROOT | 4 | "Money is the ___ of all evil" |
| 33% | INALIENABLE | 11 | Word that, though not found in the Declaration of Independence, does appear in the excerpt inscribed on the Jefferson Memorial |