| 100% | LETFREEDOMRING | 14 | Repeated phrase in Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech |
| 86% | LETFREEDOMRING | 14 | Repeated phrase in Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech |
| 72% | FREEATLAST | 10 | Final words of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech |
| 66% | FREEATLAST | 10 | Final words of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech ... or a hint to the endings of 17-, 24-, 39- and 49-Across |
| 56% | ODETTA | 6 | She sang at the march where Martin Luther King Jr. made his "I Have a Dream" speech |
| 56% | WASHINGTONDC | 12 | City where Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech and where his national memorial is located (2 wds.) |
| 51% | WASHINGTON | 10 | March on ___, one of the largest rallies for human rights where Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his historic "I Have a Dream" speech |
| 51% | DREAM | 5 | "I Have a ___" (Martin Luther King, Jr. speech) |
| 49% | DREAM | 5 | “I Have a ___” (famed speech by Martin Luther King, Jr.) |
| 48% | FREEATLAST | 10 | Spiritual referenced in King's "I Have a Dream" speech |
| 48% | DREAM | 5 | "I Have a ___" (Martin Luther King Jr. speech) |
| 47% | FREEATLAST | 10 | Spiritual lyric quoted in King's "I Have a Dream" speech |
| 47% | FREEATLAST | 10 | Spiritual cited aspirationally in King's "I Have a Dream" speech |
| 47% | HAVE | 4 | "I ___ a dream..." (famous speech by Martin Luther King, Jr.) |
| 46% | PHD | 3 | Martin Luther King Jr. had one in theology from Boston University |
| 43% | IHAVE | 5 | "___ a dream": Martin Luther King Jr. |
| 42% | HAVE | 4 | "I ___ a dream ..." (quote by Martin Luther King Jr.) |
| 41% | DREAM | 5 | Martin Luther King Jr. had one |
| 41% | RFK | 3 | Deliverer of a noted speech upon the death of Martin Luther King Jr. (4/4/1968), in brief |
| 40% | FREEATLAST | 10 | Final words of MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech |
| 40% | IHAVE | 5 | "___ a Dream" (Martin Luther King speech): 2 wds. |
| 40% | DRUMMAJOR | 9 | "The ___ Instinct": Martin Luther King, Jr.'s sermon from Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church in February 1968 |
| 39% | SELMA | 5 | City famously visited by Martin Luther King Jr. in 1965 |
| 39% | NOBEL | 5 | Peace Prize won by Martin Luther King Jr. in 1964 |
| 39% | ATLANTA | 7 | Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthplace |
| 38% | PHDS | 4 | Achievements of Henry Kissinger and Martin Luther King Jr., in brief |
| 38% | DAVIDOYELOWO | 12 | “Interstellar” actor who played Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in “Selma” |
| 38% | DAVIDOYELOWO | 12 | He plays Martin Luther King, Jr. in "Selma": 2 wds. |
| 38% | KINGSMENTION | 12 | Passing reference in the "I Have a Dream" speech? |
| 37% | CIVIL | 5 | ___ rights movement (what Martin Luther King, Jr. was a part of) |