| 100% | DBCOOPER | 8 | Missing criminal who inspired James M. Cain's "Rainbow's End" |
| 34% | DOUBLE | 6 | "___ Indemnity," Barbara Stanwyck starrer based on James M. Cain's novel |
| 32% | INDEMNITY | 9 | James M Cain novel and Stanwyck film Double __ |
| 32% | BUTTERFLY | 9 | The —, 1947 novel by James M Cain |
| 31% | SHERLOCKHOLMES | 14 | Detective who inspired "House, M.D." |
| 30% | NOIR | 4 | Genre for James M. Cain and Dashiell Hammett |
| 29% | VIOLET | 6 | Rainbow's end |
| 29% | DOUBLE | 6 | & 24A James M Cain novella first published in book form in 1943 |
| 28% | SERENADE | 8 | 1937 novel by James M Cain narrated by the character John Howard Sharp |
| 26% | JUDIDENCH | 9 | British dame who played M in James Bond films |
| 26% | POTOFGOLD | 9 | Glistening treasure at a rainbow's end |
| 26% | ELIOT | 5 | T.S. who inspired "Cats" |
| 26% | ELIOT | 5 | T.S. who inspired ''Cats'' |
| 26% | OBS | 3 | M.D.'s who deliver |
| 26% | OBGYNS | 6 | M.D.'s who deliver |
| 25% | MONEYPENNY | 10 | Miss —, secretary to M in the James Bond novels by Ian Fleming |
| 25% | POE | 3 | Author who inspired a Baltimore team's nickname |
| 25% | NEAL | 4 | Cassady who inspired Kerouac's Moriarty |
| 25% | POT | 3 | ___ of gold (item at a rainbow's end, supposedly) |
| 25% | DEVITO | 6 | Actor Danny who appears in M&M's commercials |
| 25% | NEHRU | 5 | P.M. who inspired a 1960s jacket |
| 25% | MORAYEEL | 8 | Predatory fish who inspired Ursula's sidekicks |
| 25% | ALDRIN | 6 | Buzz who inspired Buzz Lightyear's name |
| 25% | ERATO | 5 | Whom Dryden's "poet's mind inspire" |
| 25% | ENTS | 4 | M.D.'s who may cure snoring |
| 25% | ENTS | 4 | M.D.s who treat sleep apnea |
| 24% | KATICH | 6 | S M —, Australia Test cricketer who hit 125 against India at Sydney in 2004 |
| 24% | LEONARD | 7 | Robert Sean ___, actor who plays Dr. James Wilson on "House, M.D." |
| 24% | EVIE | 4 | Daughter in E. M. Forster's "Howards End" |