| 100% | JOHNI | 5 | Old king of Portugal called "the Great" |
| 57% | HANDSOME | 8 | King of Portugal in 1367, Ferdinand the __ |
| 55% | PIPE | 4 | One of the things Old King Cole called for |
| 53% | FIDDLERS | 8 | Old King Cole called for three of these |
| 53% | ALEXANDER | 9 | The great conqueror who was king of Macedonia |
| 53% | FREDERICK | 9 | __ the Great, 18th C king of Prussia |
| 52% | MICHAELJORDAN | 13 | Basketball superstar often called the greatest of all time: 2 wds. |
| 52% | GRAF | 4 | King called her "the greatest women's tennis player of all time" |
| 51% | ALEXANDER | 9 | ___ the Great, king of ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon |
| 51% | CYRUS | 5 | — the Great, King of Persia from 559-530 BC |
| 51% | CYRUS | 5 | - the Great, King of Persia from 559-530 BC |
| 51% | LIMAPERU | 8 | Capital originally called the City of the Kings |
| 51% | EDWARDI | 7 | King called "Hammer of the Scots" |
| 51% | CYRUS | 5 | ___ the Great, founder of the first Persian empire called Achaemenid |
| 50% | WRASSE | 6 | Humphead ___ (fish sometimes called the king of the coral reef) |
| 50% | NERUDA | 6 | Whom Márquez called ''the greatest poet of the 20th century'' |
| 49% | MASTERS | 7 | Old __, great European painters of the 14th-18th C |
| 49% | HUEANDCRY | 9 | Old phrase calling for the pursuit of a criminal |
| 49% | III | 3 | George __, first king of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
| 48% | RLSTINE | 7 | “Fear Street” author often called the Stephen King of children’s literature |
| 48% | MACEDONIA | 9 | Country of which Alexander the Great was king |
| 48% | SAUL | 4 | First king of Israel in the Old Testament |
| 48% | CETSHWAYO | 9 | Last great king of the Zulus |
| 48% | OSAGE | 5 | Great Plains people who call themselves "Children of the Middle Waters" |
| 47% | SOLOMON | 7 | Old Testament King of Israel, built the 1st temple |
| 47% | REI | 3 | King of Portugal |
| 47% | MUSCAT | 6 | Pliny the Elder called it “the Grape of the Bees” |
| 46% | COLE | 4 | Old king of rhyme |
| 46% | GONERIL | 7 | Eldest daughter of King Lear in the William Shakespeare play of that name |
| 46% | OTOE | 4 | Old buffalo hunters of the Great Plains |