| 100% | NOBEL | 5 | Prize for Carter and Obama |
| 79% | NOBELS | 6 | Prizes for Wilson, Carter and Obama |
| 63% | NOBEL | 5 | Prize won by Obama and Carter |
| 62% | NOBEL | 5 | Prize won by Obama, Roosevelt and Carter |
| 58% | NOBEL | 5 | ___ Peace Prize, Obama and Carter have been its recipients |
| 55% | NOBEL | 5 | Prize won by Roosevelt, Wilson, Carter and Obama |
| 53% | NOBEL | 5 | Prize for Jimmy Carter |
| 53% | NOBEL | 5 | Prize previously awarded to Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama |
| 51% | NOBEL | 5 | 2009 prize for Obama |
| 51% | NOBELS | 6 | Prizes for Marie Curie and Malala |
| 50% | USNAVY | 6 | Org. for Carter and Bush Sr. before they became presidents |
| 48% | EXSENATORS | 10 | Obama and Clinton, for example |
| 47% | NEBULA | 6 | ___ Awards (annual prizes for science fiction and fantasy) |
| 45% | SENATOR | 7 | Onetime title for Obama and Clinton |
| 45% | CODENAMES | 9 | Renegade and Renaissance, for the Obamas |
| 45% | PIANOTUNA | 9 | Fish prized for its scales and found mainly in the Keys? |
| 45% | NOBELISTS | 9 | Carter, Gore and Obama, e.g. |
| 45% | NOBEL | 5 | ___ Prize (honor for scientists, writers, and peace activists) |
| 44% | LEOS | 4 | Barack Obama and Lisa Kudrow, for two |
| 44% | WILSON | 6 | August —, Pulitzer Prize for Drama winner for The Piano Lesson and Fences |
| 44% | LILWAYNE | 8 | Rapper known for Lollipop, Shooter and Mr. Carter |
| 43% | CARLSANDBURG | 12 | "Fog" poet who won Pulitzer Prizes for both Poetry and History: 2 wds. |
| 43% | PEACE | 5 | Nobel Prize won by Al Gore and Barack Obama |
| 43% | PEACE | 5 | Nobel ___ Prize (award for Maria Ressa and Malala Yousafzai) |
| 42% | THORNTONWILDER | 14 | "Our Town" playwright who won Pulitzer Prizes for both Drama and Fiction: 2 wds. |
| 41% | JHUMPA | 6 | With 27-Across, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner who wrote 17-Across and 36-Across |
| 41% | MARGARETATWOOD | 14 | Author who won the Booker Prize for "The Blind Assassin" and "The Testaments": 2 wds. |
| 41% | REALNAMES | 9 | Shawn Carter for Jay-Z and Tracy Morrow for Ice-T |
| 41% | ATLAST | 6 | Beyoncé cover song and first dance for an Obama inauguration party |
| 40% | STATESENATORS | 13 | Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter, at the starts of their political careers |