| 100% | USG | 3 | Monogram of a future president who fortuitously declined President Lincoln's invitation to attend Ford's Theater with him |
| 27% | SEVENDAYSINMAY | 14 | 1964 film with Ava Gardner as the former mistress of a general who is plotting to oust the president: 4 wds. |
| 25% | ABE | 3 | President Lincoln who remains the only president to hold a patent, fondly |
| 24% | THECIDERHOUSELURES | 18 | Story of a youth who says to hell with it and goes to the pub? |
| 24% | HENRY | 5 | With 37-Across, "The Grapes of Wrath" actor who played president-to-be Abraham Lincoln in "Young Mr. Lincoln" (1939) |
| 24% | AMILLIONJUNES | 13 | Emily Henry novel about a young woman who finds a connection with the son of her family's enemy when he returns home one summer (3 wds.) |
| 24% | BARACK | 6 | ___ Obama, 44th U.S. President who has different species of animals, including a Cuban spider and sea slug, named after him |
| 24% | MINDYCOHN | 9 | "The Facts of Life" actress who's ready to resume her career after a five-year battle with breast cancer: 2 wds. |
| 24% | RONALD | 6 | With 39-Across, film star and future US president who was president of SAG, 1959-1960 |
| 24% | HARRY | 5 | ___ S. Truman, 33rd President of the United States who was also a skilled piano player |
| 23% | EINSTEIN | 8 | 7D's furry companion in "Back to the Future" who shares a name with the physicist who deduced E = mc^2 |
| 23% | RIGGER | 6 | Worker who attends to a system of ropes on a ship |
| 23% | RODEOCLOWN | 10 | Performer who has to put up with a lot of bull? |
| 23% | YOULOSE | 7 | Calvin Coolidge's reputed reply to a woman who bet she could get more than two words out of him |
| 23% | RONALD | 6 | With 41-Across, future US president who had a chimpanzee costar in the 1951 movie "Bedtime for Bonzo" |
| 23% | NIXON | 5 | U.S. president who becomes the president of future Earth on "Futurama" |
| 23% | AJANAOMIKING | 12 | "The Birth of a Nation" actress who plays law student Michaela Pratt on "How to Get Away with Murder" (3 wds.) |
| 23% | BLIND | 5 | With 7-Across, traditional holder of a president's assets |
| 23% | SECRETARY | 9 | With 35-Across, 2013-2015 government position of Chuck Hagel, who called US goalkeeper Tim Howard to thank him |
| 23% | REAGAN | 6 | Only U.S. president with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (probably because he made July National Ice Cream Month) |
| 22% | IRAN | 4 | With whom the U.S. pulled out of a nuclear deal |
| 22% | FDR | 3 | President with a monument next to MLK Jr.'s |
| 22% | LABORUNION | 10 | Ronald Reagan is the only U.S. president who was also president of a … |
| 22% | WINS | 4 | What he who dies with the most toys does, according to a bumper sticker |
| 22% | ICET | 4 | Rapper married to Coco Austin, with whom he costarred in a reality show: Hyph. |
| 22% | AARON | 5 | He doubted God's ability to bring water out of a rock |
| 22% | EIGHT | 5 | Number of U.S. presidents who didn't attend college |
| 22% | DANAE | 5 | Princess who became pregnant with Perseus after Zeus came to her in the form of a shower of gold |
| 22% | TODD | 4 | Mary who married a future president |
| 22% | DOGS | 4 | Service animals that attended a relaxed performance of "Billy Elliot" to learn proper theater behavior |