| 100% | INFAMOUS | 8 | Well-known for all the wrong reasons |
| 55% | OAK | 3 | ___ Ridge Boys (country band best known for the song "Elvira") |
| 55% | SURVIVOR | 8 | Band best known for its hit "Eye of the Tiger" |
| 55% | AHA | 3 | Band best known for the hit "Take On Me": Hyph. |
| 55% | MACYGRAY | 8 | R&B singer best known for the song I Try |
| 55% | AHA | 3 | Band best known for the song "Take On Me": Hyph. |
| 54% | MICHELANGELO | 12 | Sculptor best known for the Pietà and his statue of David |
| 54% | SUE | 3 | Mystery author Grafton who's best known for the "alphabet series" |
| 54% | VOCAB | 5 | All the words that you may know, for short |
| 54% | MEE | 3 | Arthur —, journalist born in 1875 best known for The Children's Encyclopaedia |
| 54% | GREGORY | 7 | — XIII, 16th-century Pope best known for his reformation of the calendar |
| 54% | JACK | 4 | ___ Kerouac, Beat Generation writer best known for his work "On the Road" |
| 54% | PRATCHETT | 9 | Terry —, late fantasy writer best known for the Discworld series of novels |
| 54% | DALMATIA | 8 | Croatian region perhaps best known for its contribution to the animal kingdom |
| 53% | AESCHYLUS | 9 | Greek dramatist best known for trilogy the Oresteia |
| 52% | INFAMOUS | 8 | Well-known for negative reasons |
| 52% | PARRY | 5 | Hubert —, English composer best known for his setting of the William Blake poem Jerusalem |
| 52% | ENYA | 4 | Irish singer best known in the US for "Orinoco Flow" |
| 52% | NOYES | 5 | Poet best known for "The Highwayman" |
| 51% | BASHO | 5 | 17th-century Japanese poet best known for the book The Narrow Road to the Deep North |
| 51% | DANNY | 5 | ___ Trejo, Mexican-American actor well known for his role as Machete in the "Spy Kids" series |
| 51% | SAGE | 4 | The Thinker, for all we know |
| 51% | MOBY | 4 | Electronic musician known for the song "We Are All Made of Stars" |
| 50% | AHA | 3 | Pop band best known in the US for "Take On Me": Hyph. |
| 50% | AUGUSTERODIN | 12 | Sculptor best known for "The Thinker": 2 wds. |
| 49% | ITALIAN | 7 | Born in the country best known for pizza |
| 48% | ALL | 3 | "He's famous for ___ the wrong reasons." |
| 48% | ALL | 3 | "He's famous for ___ the wrong reasons" |
| 48% | BAY | 3 | Hervey ___, city in Queensland known for some of the best whale-watching spots in Australia |
| 48% | IAN | 3 | ___ Somerhalder, actor best known for his role on "The Vampire Diaries" |