| 100% | INC | 3 | Magazine whose first issue included the article "The Boss Who Won't Let Go" |
| 35% | LEECH | 5 | One who won't let go |
| 31% | KAZUO | 5 | "Never Let Me Go" author ___ Ishiguro who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017 |
| 30% | KAZUOISHIGURO | 13 | British author of "Never Let Me Go" who won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature : 2 wds. |
| 29% | FABOLOUS | 8 | Rapper with the 2003 hit "Can't Let You Go" whose name sounds wonderful |
| 29% | READERSDIGEST | 13 | General interest magazine whose first issue was published in 1922 (2 wds.) |
| 28% | DETAINS | 7 | Won't let go |
| 28% | FORBES | 6 | Magazine whose first issue declared, “Business was originated to produce happiness, not to pile up millions” |
| 28% | CLINGSTO | 8 | Won't let go of |
| 28% | HARPSON | 7 | Won't let go of |
| 27% | AVRIL | 5 | First name on the multiplatinum 2002 album Let Go |
| 27% | EMIL | 4 | Jannings who won the first-ever Oscar |
| 27% | KELLY | 5 | Clarkson who won the first "American Idol" |
| 27% | TYRA | 4 | First name of the supermodel who now goes by "BanX" |
| 27% | KELLY | 5 | Clarkson who won the first "American Idol" season |
| 27% | EMIL | 4 | Jannings who won the first Best Actor Oscar |
| 27% | VANOUTEN | 8 | Denise —, television presenter whose credits include The Big Breakfast and Who Dares, Sings! |
| 27% | EMIL | 4 | ___ Jannings, actor who won the first "Best Actor" Oscar |
| 27% | EMIL | 4 | Actor Jannings who won the first Best Actor Oscar |
| 27% | EMIL | 4 | Jannings who won the first Best Actor Oscar (1928) |
| 27% | CLARKSON | 8 | Kelly, who won the first series of American Idol |
| 27% | CLARKSON | 8 | Kelly, US singer who won the first American Idol |
| 26% | STEWS | 5 | Won't let it go |
| 26% | WOUK | 4 | Herman, who got his first publisher's contract serving onboard the USS Southard and went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1952 |
| 26% | SARABAREILLES | 13 | "Love Song" singer-songwriter who recorded the duets "Love Won't Let You Get Away" and "Baby, It's Cold Outside" with 32-Across (2 wds.) |
| 26% | GREGGPOPOVICH | 13 | NBA coach for the Spurs who won the championship five times, including 2014: 2 wds. |
| 26% | ESSENCE | 7 | Magazine whose fiftieth-anniversary issue, in 2020, featured Naomi Campbell on the cover |
| 26% | ANNE | 4 | Carson who won the 2001 T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry |
| 26% | SAY | 3 | "___ You Won't Let Go," song by James Arthur |
| 26% | SAY | 3 | "___ You Won't Let Go" (song by James Arthur) |