| 100% | ROSA | 4 | Parks who wouldn't move to the back of the bus in 1955 |
| 40% | INC | 3 | Abbr. in the back of a bus. |
| 39% | RETINAL | 7 | Related to nerves in the back of the eye |
| 39% | BROOKLYN | 8 | Colm Tóibín novel about an Irish woman who moves to New York in the 1950s |
| 38% | HAPPILYEVERAFT | 14 | Always glad to be seated in the back of the boat? |
| 38% | BOONE | 5 | Pat who co-starred in "Journey to the Center of the Earth" |
| 38% | ADLER | 5 | Irene who's central to the scandal of "A Scandal in Bohemia" |
| 37% | ROSA | 4 | Parks who's known for her role in the Montgomery bus boycott |
| 37% | TAG | 3 | Annoyance in the back of a T-shirt or bra |
| 37% | BRANSON | 7 | Richard who flew to the edge of space in 2021 |
| 37% | MARSHAWNLYNCH | 13 | "Beast Mode" running back who came out of retirement in 2017 to play for the Oakland Raiders: 2 wds. |
| 37% | STOLTZ | 6 | Whom Fox replaced in Back to the Future |
| 36% | MICHAELJFOX | 11 | "The Secret of My Success" actor who played Marty McFly in "Back to the Future" (3 wds.) |
| 36% | EYES | 4 | What some teachers claim to have in the backs of their heads |
| 36% | HOWIE | 5 | ___ Dorough, member of the group "Backstreet Boys" who released a solo album "Back to Me" in 2011 |
| 36% | XXX | 3 | To the back of the barge |
| 36% | BERT | 4 | Parks who hosted the Miss America pageant from 1955 to 1979 |
| 36% | ROSA | 4 | Parks who wouldn't give up her bus seat |
| 36% | DOCBROWN | 8 | Owner of a DeLorean in Back to the Future |
| 35% | RIGGS | 5 | Bobby who lost to Billie Jean in the Battle of the Sexes tennis match |
| 35% | CHITS | 5 | Notes of indebtedness to the one who trounced you in the weekend poker game |
| 35% | EVACUEE | 7 | Someone who is moved to safety in times of war |
| 35% | LEATHOMPSON | 11 | "Some Kind of Wonderful" actress who played Lorraine McFly in the 1985 film "Back to the Future" (2 wds.) |
| 35% | JENNY | 5 | Woman in a 1982 hit who can be reached using the starts of the answers to the starred clues |
| 35% | BASEHART | 8 | Richard —, actor who starred as Admiral Nelson in 1960s US television series Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea |
| 35% | RICHARD | 7 | & 4D Actor who starred as Admiral Nelson in 1960s US television series Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea |
| 35% | REAR | 4 | Back of the bus |
| 35% | INC | 3 | Back of the bus.? |
| 35% | ROSA | 4 | Parks who was the first woman to lie in honor in the Capitol |
| 35% | HORATIO | 7 | To whom it is said "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark" |