| 100% | ATLARGE | 7 | How U.S. senators are elected |
| 56% | TERM | 4 | A U.S. senator's is six years |
| 56% | TWICE | 5 | How often, at most, one can be elected U.S. president |
| 51% | AMYKLOBU | 8 | *Minnesota's first elected female U.S. senator |
| 49% | FDR | 3 | He was elected US president four times: Abbr. |
| 47% | TWICE | 5 | How many times someone is allowed to serve as U.S. president |
| 46% | BROOKE | 6 | Edward ___, first popularly elected African-American U.S. senator (Massachusetts, 1967-79) |
| 46% | BERNIE | 6 | U.S. Senator ___ Sanders |
| 46% | CORY | 4 | U.S. Senator Booker |
| 46% | SERIOCOMIC | 10 | How NBC's dramedy "This Is Us" can be described |
| 46% | MPH | 3 | How car speeds are measured in the US: Abbr. |
| 45% | RUBIO | 5 | U.S. senator from Florida |
| 45% | TOMDASCHLE | 10 | S. Dakota Senator (1987-2005) who was elected floor leader in 1994 |
| 45% | SCHUMER | 7 | Amy who is a distant cousin of a U.S. senator |
| 44% | STROM | 5 | Thurmond who was a US senator for 48 years |
| 44% | TED | 3 | Cruz who has been a US senator since 2013 |
| 44% | SIXFIGUREINCOME | 15 | U.S. senator's salary, e.g. |
| 44% | LOTT | 4 | U.S. senator from 1989 to 2007 |
| 44% | DOMENICI | 8 | U.S. senator from 1973 to 2009 |
| 43% | HALF | 4 | Like 50 U.S. senators |
| 43% | AGED | 4 | Like many U.S. senators |
| 43% | EVAN | 4 | Former U.S. senator Bayh |
| 43% | GEORGEMURPHY | 12 | American actor who served as the U.S. Senator from California and was also included in the Hollywood Walk of Fame: 2 wds. |
| 43% | STENNIS | 7 | Former U.S. senator John C. ___, whose name can be formed by combining 44 Down and 22 Across and reversing the whole thing |
| 43% | TED | 3 | Kennedy who was a US senator for almost 47 years |
| 43% | NRA | 3 | Org. of which U. S. Grant was once president |
| 43% | SENIOR | 6 | Like half of U.S. senators |
| 43% | MEN | 3 | All U.S. senators until 1922 |
| 43% | MEN | 3 | 80% of U.S. senators, currently |
| 42% | JOHNQUINCYADAMS | 15 | 1808 resignee as U.S. senator |