| 100% | MALTHUS | 7 | Thomas —, English economist who authored 1798's An Essay on the Principle of Population |
| 64% | MALTHUS | 7 | Economist who wrote "An Essay on the Principle of Population," 1798 |
| 34% | JAMESBALDWIN | 12 | "Go Tell It on the Mountain" author who was an inaugural honoree on the National LGBTQ Wall of Honor: 2 wds. |
| 32% | JENNIFERLOPEZ | 13 | "On the Floor" singer who's an executive producer and judge on "World of Dance": 2 wds. |
| 31% | JULIANBARNES | 12 | English author who won the Man Booker Prize for "The Sense of an Ending": 2 wds. |
| 31% | ROARK | 5 | Ayn Rand's fictional character Howard ___ who was the author's vision of an ideal human |
| 31% | BOWDLER | 7 | Thomas —, English publisher of an 1818 expurgated version of The Family Shakespeare |
| 31% | ONENINTH | 8 | Approximate proportion of the world's population that lives on an island |
| 30% | PILGRIM | 7 | An English settler who arrived on the Mayflower |
| 30% | PLAYERONE | 9 | Who controls the leftmost set of buttons on an arcade cabinet |
| 30% | DEQUINCEY | 9 | Thomas —, author of 1821 autobiographical work Confessions of an English Opium Eater |
| 30% | SIMON | 5 | ___ Cowell, English television producer who has been one of the judges on "America's Got Talent" since season 11 |
| 29% | RICARDO | 7 | David —, British economist born in 1772 who authored The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation |
| 29% | WYCLIFFE | 8 | John ___, English philosopher and theologian who made an early translation of the Bible |
| 29% | MIRROR | 6 | "__ __ on the wall, who's the fairest of them all" |
| 28% | TAICHI | 6 | Discipline based on the principles of yin and yang |
| 28% | KYD | 3 | English author of "The Spanish Tragedy" Thomas ____ |
| 28% | ALF | 3 | Sitcom alien who's "back... in Pog form!" on an episode of "The Simpsons" |
| 28% | BENBERNANKE | 11 | Economist who was Time's 2009 Person of the Year: 2 wds. |
| 28% | THEM | 4 | "Magic mirror on the wall, who's the fairest of ___ all?" |
| 28% | THEM | 4 | "Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the fairest of ___ all?" |
| 28% | DEWLAP | 6 | The flap of skin on an iguana's neck |
| 28% | CHARLIEHUNNAM | 13 | English actor who spoke with an American accent to play Jax Teller on "Sons of Anarchy": 2 wds. |
| 28% | TRUMAN | 6 | Harry S. ___, 33rd President of the U.S. who had an unsuccessful oil and mining business |
| 27% | KYD | 3 | Thomas —, 16th-century English dramatist who authored The Spanish Tragedy |
| 27% | MEL | 3 | ___ B, English singer who was one of the judges on "America's Got Talent" from season 8 to 13 |
| 27% | ANALYST | 7 | Person who's an expert on the stock market |
| 27% | CHADOCHOCINCO | 13 | Former name of an NFL player who appeared on "Dancing With the Stars" in 2010: 2 wds. |
| 27% | CPA | 3 | Person who's an expert on the tax code: Abbr. |
| 27% | REID | 4 | Thomas —, Scottish philosopher whose works include An Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense |