| 100% | DEWARS | 6 | Scotch sent by Andrew Carnegie to James Garfield's inauguration |
| 28% | SCOTS | 5 | Andrew Carnegie and Alexander Graham Bell, by birth |
| 27% | ISLAND | 6 | Snail sent by daughter to Australia, say |
| 26% | ABRAM | 5 | James Garfield's middle name |
| 25% | CALEB | 5 | Biblical spy sent by Moses to case the Promised Land |
| 25% | STEEL | 5 | Andrew Carnegie's industry |
| 25% | ATONED | 6 | Compensated by sending a note to daughter |
| 24% | SPIDERMAN | 9 | Superhero portrayed by Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield: Hyph. |
| 24% | VALKYRIE | 8 | A female warrior sent to the battlefield by Odin |
| 24% | FANMAIL | 7 | Correspondence sent to celebrities by their admirers: 2 wds. |
| 24% | SCOTTISH | 8 | Industrialist Andrew Carnegie's nationality |
| 23% | CATS | 4 | Andrew Lloyd Webber stage musical based on poetry by T S Eliot |
| 23% | ODIE | 4 | Dog once referred to by Garfield as a "slobbering atrocity" |
| 23% | VIKING | 6 | — 1, unmanned spacecraft sent to Mars by NASA in 1975 |
| 23% | LEI | 3 | Necklaces sent by Abraham Akaka to Selma marchers in 1965 |
| 23% | STEEL | 5 | Source of Andrew Carnegie's fortune |
| 23% | STEEL | 5 | Source of Andrew Carnegie's wealth |
| 23% | BIRDCAGE | 8 | __ Walk, London street to the S of St James's Park |
| 22% | DOOMING | 7 | Sending to one's fate |
| 22% | KIT | 3 | Presidential pet horse that belonged to the 20th POTUS, James A. Garfield |
| 22% | MONEYPENNY | 10 | Miss —, secretary to M in the James Bond novels by Ian Fleming |
| 22% | TIME | 4 | "No ___ to Die," 2020 James Bond movie directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga |
| 22% | KEN | 3 | Jennings whose "Jeopardy!" record came close to being beaten by James Holzhauer |
| 22% | IRISH | 5 | Like Andrew Jackson and James Buchanan, by heritage |
| 22% | AKILL | 5 | James Bond's "A View to ___" |
| 22% | IWASA | 5 | James Taylor's "___ Fool to Care" |
| 22% | IWASA | 5 | James Taylor’s “___ Fool to Care” |
| 22% | ABRAM | 5 | James A. Garfield’s “A” |
| 22% | REPATRIATE | 10 | Send back to one’s country |
| 22% | CATS | 4 | 1981 Andrew Lloyd Webber stage musical based on poetry by T S Eliot |