| 100% | MEDUSA | 6 | Raft of the __, Géricault portrait of a shipwreck |
| 53% | DEDALUS | 7 | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man protagonist Stephen |
| 53% | JOYCE | 5 | "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" author |
| 52% | MONA | 4 | First name of the woman in a famously mysterious portrait |
| 51% | HERSHEY | 7 | Barbara —, Best Actress in a Supporting Role Oscar nominee for The Portrait of a Lady |
| 51% | OBAMA | 5 | Subject of a Kehinde Wiley portrait in the National Portrait Gallery |
| 51% | ARTIST | 6 | James Joyce's "A Portrait of the ___ as a Young Man" |
| 51% | GERTRUDESTEIN | 13 | Pittsburgh-born poet who was the subject of a Picasso portrait |
| 50% | DEDALUS | 7 | Stephen of Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" |
| 49% | OVARIAL | 7 | Of the lower part of a pistil |
| 49% | STRAITARTIST | 12 | Person painting a portrait of the “All My Ex’s Live in Texas” singer? |
| 49% | RICHTER | 7 | Artist Gerhard whose portraits of the Baader-Meinhof group inspired a Don DeLillo story |
| 48% | GAY | 3 | Peterkin —, survivor, with Ralph Rover and Jack Martin, of a shipwreck in R M Ballantyne novel The Coral Island |
| 48% | MOOCOW | 6 | Kidspeak animal mentioned in the first line of "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" |
| 48% | OUT | 3 | ___ of the blue (all of a sudden) |
| 47% | RAREGASES | 9 | Contents of the rightmost column of a table |
| 47% | POLE | 4 | One of the two ends of a magnet |
| 47% | APOCOPE | 7 | Omission of the final sound of a word |
| 47% | LIMB | 4 | Any of the main branches of a tree |
| 47% | FOREMAN | 7 | Title of the lead spokesman of a jury |
| 47% | GERICAULT | 9 | Raft of the Medusa's artist |
| 46% | HULL | 4 | Much of a shipwreck |
| 46% | CABOOSE | 7 | The last car of a train |
| 46% | RIM | 3 | The outer edge of a glass |
| 46% | ROOF | 4 | The very top of a house |
| 46% | AIR | 3 | The inner contents of a basketball |
| 46% | STEM | 4 | The main trunk of a plant |
| 46% | RUNT | 4 | The smallest animal of a litter |
| 46% | CLOCKWORK | 9 | The inner workings of a timepiece |
| 46% | CUB | 3 | The young one of a lion |