| 100% | COMMANDER | 9 | Target of much biting White House reportage in the 2020s |
| 42% | PLUMBERS | 8 | '70s covert White House intelligence group ... and, in a more conventional sense, a hint to the starts of the answers to starred clues |
| 41% | DIO | 3 | Target of much of the action in the Vatican's Basilica di San Pietro |
| 37% | TRUMAN | 6 | Author of "Murder in the White House" |
| 37% | RAHMEMANUEL | 11 | Chief of staff in the Obama White House |
| 37% | BEAGLES | 7 | White House pair in the 1960s |
| 37% | MAMIE | 5 | White House name in the 1950s |
| 36% | NORA | 4 | One of the White House Trio in "Red, White & Royal Blue" |
| 36% | JILL | 4 | One of the Bidens in the White House |
| 36% | JOE | 3 | One of the Bidens in the White House |
| 36% | BIDENS | 6 | White House family during the 2020s |
| 36% | ROSE | 4 | White house bud, in the future |
| 35% | WOODWARD | 8 | Author of Fear: Trump in the White House, Bob __ |
| 35% | TYLERS | 6 | White House family of the 1840s |
| 35% | CAL | 3 | White House nickname of the 1920s |
| 35% | TAD | 3 | White House boy of the 1860s |
| 35% | IKE | 3 | White House nickname of the '50s |
| 35% | MAMIE | 5 | White House name of the 1950s |
| 34% | SASHA | 5 | One of a pair in the White House in the 2010s |
| 34% | SASHA | 5 | One of two sisters in the White House in the 2010s |
| 34% | OVAL | 4 | Shape of a particular office in the White House |
| 34% | OVAL | 4 | Shape of a notable room in the White House |
| 34% | WGH | 3 | White House monogram letters in the 1920s |
| 34% | TAFTS | 5 | White House family of the early 1910s |
| 34% | TRICIA | 6 | White House daughter of the 1960s-'70s |
| 34% | CAA | 3 | White house monogram letters of the '80s |
| 34% | FIRSTLADY | 9 | Mrs. in the White House |
| 34% | TODD | 4 | Mary in the White House |
| 34% | FALA | 4 | Scottie in the White House |
| 34% | LYNDON | 6 | Johnson in the White House |