| 100% | BARNUM | 6 | P. T., who started a circus |
| 61% | BARNUM | 6 | P T —, showman who formed a circus with rival J A Bailey in 1881 |
| 49% | HOST | 4 | One who starts a video meeting |
| 48% | RECRANK | 7 | Start a Model T again |
| 48% | RENELACOSTE | 11 | Athlete who started a clothing company in 1933 |
| 48% | FODOR | 5 | Eugene who started a series of travel guides |
| 47% | BETTYFORD | 9 | First lady who started a rehab center in 1970s |
| 46% | DRDRE | 5 | Rapper who started a headphone brand called Beats: 2 wds. |
| 46% | EMMA | 4 | Actress Watson who started a feminist book group on Goodreads |
| 45% | CRANKUP | 7 | Start, as a Model T |
| 45% | BOTTOMS | 7 | 2023 comedy about two high school girls who start a fight club |
| 44% | PAM | 3 | "The Office" character who started as a receptionist |
| 44% | LUCILLETIMES | 12 | Cafe owner who started a bus boycott in Montgomery in June of 1955 |
| 44% | SHRIMPBRAWLER | 13 | One who starts a fight over the last crustacean at a seafood buffet? |
| 44% | ARCHIES | 7 | The __, pop group who started in a comic book |
| 43% | IHEART | 6 | Start of many a T-shirt slogan |
| 43% | CLOWN | 5 | Circus performer who might wear a red nose |
| 42% | YOUCANTHOLD | 11 | Start of a quote by Booker T. Washington |
| 42% | ITS | 3 | "The ___ Man", who appeared at the start of each Monty Python's Flying Circus episode only to be cut off after a single word |
| 42% | KATHRYNJOOSTEN | 14 | "Desperate Housewives" actress who started a Hollywood acting career in her late 50s: 2 wds. |
| 42% | MEL | 3 | Gibson who voiced a circus rooster in "Chicken Run" |
| 42% | RINGLING | 8 | The brothers who owned a circus company |
| 42% | NEHRU | 5 | P.M. who inspired a 1960s jacket |
| 41% | CRANK | 5 | How to start up a Model T |
| 41% | BEETHOVEN | 9 | Start of a message on a Lincoln Center T-shirt |
| 40% | AURILIA | 7 | Ballplayer Rich who started and ended his 15-year career as a Giant |
| 40% | SHAWN | 5 | ___ Mendes, "Senorita" singer who started out his career as a cover artist on Youtube |
| 40% | JUSTIN | 6 | ___ Bieber, "Peaches" singer who started out his career as a cover artist on Youtube |
| 39% | EXTENDEDSTAY | 12 | C o r s e t p a r t |
| 39% | ORAL | 4 | Roberts, who started out as a traveling faith healer and ending up founding a university |