| 100% | BARACKOBAMASR | 13 | The father in "Dreams From My Father" |
| 76% | BARACK | 6 | "Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance" author who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009 |
| 63% | OBAMA | 5 | Former U.S. president who won a Best Spoken Word Album Grammy Award for the audiobook of "Dreams from My Father" |
| 61% | BARACKOBAMA | 11 | 44th US president who published "Dreams From My Father" in 1995, before his election to Illinois's legislature: 2 wds. |
| 59% | OBAMA | 5 | "Dreams From My Father" writer |
| 59% | OBAMA | 5 | "Dreams From My Father" author |
| 59% | OBAMA | 5 | ''Dreams from My Father'' author |
| 59% | OBAMA | 5 | Senator who wrote "Dreams From My Father" |
| 59% | OBAMA | 5 | President who wrote "Dreams From My Father" |
| 58% | OBAMA | 5 | "Dreams from My Father" memoirist Barack |
| 56% | OBAMA | 5 | Author of 1995's "Dreams From My Father" |
| 55% | MEMOIR | 6 | Personal account like Obama's "Dreams from My Father" |
| 55% | IRENE | 5 | The "you" in the lyric "I'll see you in my dreams" |
| 54% | ADAMSANDLER | 11 | "Grown Ups" actor who played the title boy's father in "That's My Boy": 2 wds. |
| 54% | TIMWALZ | 7 | The dad in the "That's my dad!" moment from the 2024 Democratic National Convention |
| 54% | USE | 3 | "I ___ antlers in all of my decorating" (lyric from the Disney song "Gaston") |
| 53% | RACE | 4 | Barack Obama's "Dreams from My Father: A Story of ___ and Inheritance" |
| 52% | IRENE | 5 | In an old song, the "I'll see you in my dreams" girl |
| 52% | EGEUS | 5 | Father of Hermia in the William Shakespeare play A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| 51% | ODNIGHTIRENE | 12 | Classic song with the lyric "I'll see you in my dreams" |
| 50% | IRENE | 5 | Girl who's the "you" in the lyric "I'll see you in my dreams" |
| 50% | MIRE | 4 | "No time to wallow in the ___" (line from the Doors' "Light My Fire") |
| 50% | JOEJACKSON | 10 | Ray Liotta's role in "Field of Dreams," or the father of the King of Pop: 2 wds. |
| 49% | ABBOT | 5 | Word derived from the Aramaic for "my father" |
| 49% | BARACKOBAMA | 11 | Former U.S. President who wrote "Dreams from My Father," 18-Across, and 29-Across (2 wds.) |
| 48% | ANSE | 4 | The father in Faulkner's As I Lay Dying |
| 48% | ABEL | 4 | The brother in "Am I my brother's keeper?" |
| 48% | ALICE | 5 | "___ in Wonderland," 1951 Walt Disney film which ends with the titular protagonist waking up from a dream |
| 48% | OPINION | 7 | The O in IMHO, "in my humble __" |
| 48% | THIS | 4 | The object in my hands |