| 100% | EDITORS | 7 | People who select and approve copy for newspapers |
| 79% | EDITOR | 6 | Person who selects and approves newspaper copy |
| 42% | WITNESSES | 9 | People who legally watch and approve a marriage |
| 42% | UMPS | 4 | People who call strikes and balls, for short |
| 42% | UMPS | 4 | People who judge balls and strikes, for short |
| 42% | UMP | 3 | Person who calls balls and strikes, for short |
| 42% | VALET | 5 | Person who parks and retrieves cars for guests |
| 42% | VET | 3 | Person who spays and neuters dogs, for short |
| 41% | CONSUMER | 8 | Person who buys goods and services for own use |
| 40% | CURATOR | 7 | A person who buys, cares for and exhibits art |
| 39% | BOARDER | 7 | Person who pays for food and lodging in someone else's home |
| 36% | PIMA | 4 | Native people for whom a cotton and a county are named |
| 36% | LEARNERSPERMIT | 14 | Item for people who take the car and train |
| 36% | ATTICA | 6 | Site of a 1971 uprising of incarcerated people who were rallying for better conditions and rights |
| 35% | PAO | 3 | DOD person who preps info for release, manages internal publications, works with media reps and maybe even Hollywood |
| 35% | PLAGIARIST | 10 | Person who copies |
| 34% | PUNS | 4 | “To the person who invented zero: thanks for nothing,” and others |
| 34% | SOMMELIER | 9 | Professional who selects and serves wine |
| 34% | APER | 4 | Person who copies all |
| 34% | JASONREYNOLDS | 13 | National Ambassador for Young People's Literature who wrote 18-Across and 39-Across (2 wds.) |
| 33% | RATERS | 6 | People who assess and evaluate |
| 33% | SCREAMERS | 9 | People who shriek and yell |
| 33% | BIATHLETES | 10 | People who shoot and ski |
| 33% | CANDIDATES | 10 | People who RUN for office |
| 33% | APER | 4 | Person who copies another person |
| 33% | BIATHLETE | 9 | Person who skis and shoots |
| 33% | HAIRDRESSER | 11 | Person who curls and straightens? |
| 33% | WAGEEARNER | 10 | Person who works for money |
| 33% | EDITOR | 6 | Person who checks for errors |
| 33% | MINER | 5 | Person who digs for coal |