| 100% | USS | 3 | Something that precedes Gerald R. Ford or John F. Kennedy, as far as the navy is concerned |
| 30% | SLAG | 4 | Something left over from the Bessemer process that could be used in fertilizer or as a cement additive |
| 29% | BUCKISLAND | 10 | ___ Reef, in the Caribbean Sea that was made an official U.S. National Monument in 1961 by President John F. Kennedy: 2 wds. |
| 28% | ILLEGAL | 7 | Prohibited, or something that is against the law |
| 28% | NYE | 3 | Bill, the guy who "Saves the World" as far as Netflix is concerned |
| 28% | NEW | 3 | Something that is fresh, or right out of the box. Brand ___ |
| 27% | TOM | 3 | ___ Kitten, Presidential pet cat that belonged to the 35th POTUS, John F. Kennedy |
| 27% | BILL | 4 | Proposed law, or something that may be a lawyer's concern |
| 27% | ORAL | 4 | Something that is spoken, also the kind of hygiene dentists would be concerned with |
| 27% | BILLIE | 6 | ___ and Debbie, Presidential pet hamsters that belonged to the 35th POTUS, John F. Kennedy |
| 26% | HOW | 3 | Question word or the way that something is done |
| 26% | ATEST | 5 | Event that could be seen as far away as Las Vegas in the '50s |
| 26% | USS | 3 | ___ Gerald R. Ford (the Navy’s largest aircraft carrier) |
| 26% | MEASURE | 7 | Legal term for a rule or standard, and something that is a lawyer's concern |
| 26% | PLEA | 4 | Defendant's "guilty" or "not guilty" response, and something that is a lawyer's concern |
| 26% | BRIEF | 5 | Document outlining the court's arguments, and something that may be a lawyer's concern |
| 25% | TAKE | 4 | "___ the cake," idiom used to describe something that stands out, either as the best or the worst |
| 25% | NOSE | 4 | Part of the face that could be described as Roman or Grecian |
| 25% | EARLWARREN | 10 | Chief Justice of the United States from 1953-69; chair of the commission that investigated the assassination of John F Kennedy |
| 25% | PANAM | 5 | Airline that owned the Boeing 707-331 that the Beatles arrived on at John F. Kennedy on February 7, 1964 |
| 25% | GRAFTON | 7 | Late author whose daughter wrote, "As far as we in the family are concerned, the alphabet now ends in Y" |
| 25% | IMAGINE | 7 | John Lennon song that ends, "I hope some day you'll join us / And the world will be as one" |
| 25% | POSH | 4 | Swanky, or the kind of spice that Victoria Beckham was as a Spice Girl |
| 25% | BODES | 5 | ___ Law, which said (erroneously) that each planet is twice as far away from its star as the previous planet |
| 24% | HOTSAKE | 7 | Drink that can be described as jyoh-kan or astu-kan, depending on the temperature |
| 24% | AIRCRAFTCARRIER | 15 | The USS Gerald R. Ford, for one |
| 24% | DISTANT | 7 | Something that is far away |
| 24% | POA | 3 | Kentucky bluegrass, as far as botanists are concerned |
| 24% | GEMINI | 6 | John F. Kennedy or George H. W. Bush |
| 24% | DEM | 3 | John F. Kennedy or Barack Obama, politically: Abbr. |