| 100% | ATT | 3 | Person whose name is followed by "Esq." |
| 65% | ATTY | 4 | One whose name can be followed by "Esq.": Abbr. |
| 53% | UNO | 3 | Game whose name is shouted out by its players |
| 53% | OKLA | 4 | State whose name is Choctaw for "honored people" (Abbr.) |
| 52% | PERRYMASON | 10 | Fictional veteran whose name is an anagram of "army person" |
| 52% | POPE | 4 | Person whose pronouncements are considered by many to be infallible |
| 51% | CARDIB | 6 | Rapper whose name was inspired by a rum brand |
| 51% | BENGALS | 7 | Cincinnati ___, NFL team from Ohio whose name is heavily inspired by tigers |
| 51% | NEHI | 4 | Brand whose name was chosen to remind people of its bottles' height |
| 51% | MOZART | 6 | Person whose works were catalogued chronologically by Ludwig von Köchel |
| 51% | IPOD | 4 | Gadget whose name was inspired by "2001: A Space Odyssey" |
| 51% | FRAISIER | 8 | French cake whose name is inspired by strawberries |
| 50% | NEONTREES | 9 | Band whose name was inspired by In-N-Out Burger signage |
| 50% | UNO | 3 | Card game whose name is shouted by the players |
| 49% | HIP | 3 | Word that may be followed by "replacement" instead of "hooray" for many older people |
| 49% | DREAM | 5 | WNBA team whose name was inspired by an MLK speech |
| 49% | ALEXANDER | 9 | I created one of the largest empires of the ancient world and my name is followed by "The Great" |
| 49% | FLOW | 4 | Psychological "state" whose name was coined by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi |
| 48% | BUDDHA | 6 | Religious figure whose teachings are followed by about 500 million Asians |
| 48% | ROBOTICS | 8 | Branch of engineering whose name was coined by Asimov |
| 48% | SPAM | 4 | Canned meat product whose name is shared by junk email |
| 47% | ZZTOP | 5 | Rock band whose name is suggested by the first row of this puzzle |
| 47% | PLATO | 5 | Philospher whose name might have been given to him by his wrestling coach |
| 47% | MOHICANS | 8 | Group whose name means "the people of the waters that are never still" |
| 47% | ALIENWARE | 9 | Dell gaming brand whose name was inspired by "The X-Files" |
| 46% | EURO | 4 | Currency whose name was suggested by Germain Pirlot and officially adopted in Madrid in December 1995 |
| 46% | RINGO | 5 | Rock star whose name is spelled out by the middle letters of 16-, 18-, 39-, 61- and 64-Across |
| 45% | RADIOHEAD | 9 | "Paranoid Android" band whose name was inspired by a Talking Heads song |
| 45% | PANDORA | 7 | Music-streaming service whose name is inspired by a Greek myth |
| 45% | ICELAND | 7 | European country whose telephone directories list people alphabetically by first name |