| 100% | IDRIS | 5 | Player of Nelson in "Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom" |
| 91% | IDRISELBA | 9 | Player of Nelson Mandela in "Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom" |
| 61% | IDRISELBA | 9 | Title role player in 2013's "Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom" |
| 58% | IDRISELBA | 9 | Star of "Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom" |
| 57% | ELBA | 4 | Idris of “Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom” |
| 53% | WALK | 4 | "Mandela: Long ___ to Freedom," 2013 movie starring Idris Elba as Nelson Mandela, shot in South Africa |
| 53% | MANDELA | 7 | Long Walk for Freedom: autobiography of Nelson __ |
| 50% | LONG | 4 | "___ Walk to Freedom" (Nelson Mandela memoir) |
| 48% | MANDELA | 7 | "Long Walk to Freedom" author who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 |
| 46% | RAGE | 4 | "Prophets of ___," musical tribute to Nelson Mandela included in the eponymous album |
| 45% | NELSONMANDELA | 13 | "Long Walk to Freedom" memoirist and political leader who won the Nobel 43-Across in 1993 (2 wds.) |
| 45% | IDRISELBA | 9 | Actor who starred in the 2013 bio-pic “Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom” |
| 43% | FREEDOM | 7 | Nelson Mandela autobiography: "Long Walk to __" |
| 42% | MANDELA | 7 | "Long Walk to Freedom" writer |
| 42% | MANDELA | 7 | “Long Walk to Freedom” author |
| 42% | EDASNER | 7 | Player of Warren Buffett in "Too Big to Fail" |
| 42% | WALK | 4 | "Long ___ to Freedom" (Nelson Mandela memoir) |
| 41% | MORGANFREEMAN | 13 | Portrayer of Nelson Mandela in "Invictus": 2 wds. |
| 40% | NELSONMANDELA | 13 | Late political leader who wrote "Long Walk to Freedom" |
| 40% | WALK | 4 | Nelson Mandela's "Long ___ to Freedom" |
| 37% | CUE | 3 | Long tapered rod used to strike a ball in the game of snooker |
| 37% | CUE | 3 | Long, tapered rod used to strike a ball in the game of snooker |
| 37% | HEARTS | 6 | Game in which players tend to avoid the queen of spades |
| 36% | NAT | 3 | ___ "Sweetwater" Clifton, one of the first Black players to play in the NBA |
| 35% | WILT | 4 | First name of the only player to score 100 points in an NBA game |
| 35% | STILETTO | 8 | Kind of shoe in which it’s difficult to walk on grass |
| 35% | CONVERSATIONS | 13 | "___ With Myself," a compilation of Nelson Mandela's writing, many of which were written while he was in prison |
| 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% | BEARAWAY | 8 | Long distance walking route in SW Republic of Ireland that begins and ends in Glengarriff, County Cork |