| 100% | TWOPEASINAPOD | 13 | Similar people ... who are getting a little too close in six squares of this puzzle? |
| 38% | JOHNNYONTHESPOT | 15 | Person who's ready and able to help ... or a literal description of four occurrences in this puzzle |
| 35% | HEIRS | 5 | People who get mentioned in a will |
| 35% | JUSTICEGINSBURG | 15 | Subject of this puzzle, who once said "Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you" |
| 35% | EDITOR | 6 | Person who is in charge of and determines the final content of a text |
| 34% | FALLINGDOWN | 11 | Like the contents of this puzzle's circled squares, in a nursery rhyme |
| 34% | KIN | 3 | Next of this is a person's closest relative |
| 34% | LITTLEKID | 9 | Child represented in six squares in this puzzle (in either of two different ways) |
| 34% | SINGES | 6 | Gets a little too close to a flame |
| 34% | SCENES | 6 | People who are apoplectic don't really care if they make a few of these or not |
| 34% | LEWISCARROLL | 12 | Writer who was the source of all the words with asterisked clues in this puzzle |
| 33% | FLIMFLAMARTISTS | 15 | People who do what’s at the ends of nine answers in this puzzle |
| 33% | BONO | 4 | Irishman who was a Time magazine Person of the Year in 2005 |
| 33% | MELINDAGATES | 12 | Philanthropist who was a Time Person of the Year co-honoree in 2005 |
| 33% | CAPACITY | 8 | Number of people who will fit in a stadium, e.g. |
| 33% | BOARDERS | 8 | These are people who rent rooms in a house |
| 32% | LISASIMPSON | 11 | Animated girl who was in the finals of a crossword puzzle tournament: 2 wds. |
| 32% | CLOY | 4 | Being too sweet in terms of affection towards a person |
| 32% | TIMES | 5 | Square where the words in this puzzle's dropping balls may be heard at the end of a song's first verse |
| 32% | FRY | 3 | Get a little too much sun, as it were |
| 31% | OUTS | 4 | There are six of these in a full inning |
| 31% | GUESTS | 6 | People who are staying in a hotel |
| 31% | MEMBER | 6 | Person who is part of a club |
| 31% | DEEPSEADIVERS | 13 | People who are under a lot of pressure |
| 30% | EDITOR | 6 | Person who is in charge of finalizing newspaper content |
| 30% | LAIC | 4 | Person who is not a member of the clergy |
| 30% | ROUNDOFAPPLAUSE | 15 | Acknowledgement of success--four are hidden in this puzzle, each adjacent to a black square |
| 30% | EDGE | 4 | Get too close to the ___ (be in danger of falling) |
| 30% | DOTESON | 7 | Is a little too fond of |
| 30% | TWOFIRSTNAMES | 13 | What six people in this puzzle might be said to possess |