| 100% | CRAZY | 5 | With 44-Across, Oglala Lakota leader who helped win the Battle of the Little Bighorn against General Custer |
| 37% | NAPOLEON | 8 | General who won the Battle of Austerlitz |
| 34% | JENNIFER | 8 | With 44-Across, actress who won an Emmy Award for playing Tanya McQuoid on the first season of "The White Lotus" |
| 33% | CUSTER | 6 | Casualty at the Battle of the Little Bighorn |
| 33% | OCTAVIAN | 8 | Roman leader who won the Battle of Actium |
| 31% | CUSTER | 6 | George Armstrong —, US lieutenant colonel killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876 |
| 30% | ANGELA | 6 | With 33-Across, German leader who was Time's 2015 Person of the Year |
| 30% | SCIPIO | 6 | __ Africanus, Roman who won the Battle of Zama |
| 30% | RENO | 4 | The Battle of Little Bighorn major |
| 30% | CARLOS | 6 | With 34-Across, Astros shortstop who won the 2015 AL Rookie of the Year Award |
| 30% | LEE | 3 | General who lost the Battle of Gettysburg |
| 29% | MCGILLIVRAY | 11 | Alexander —, 18th-century Creek leader who helped draft the Treaty of New York in 1790 |
| 29% | JENNIFER | 8 | With 34-Across, "Alita: Battle Angel" actress who plays the owner of a bar in "Top Gun: Maverick" |
| 29% | HOUSTON | 7 | Sam who won at the Battle of San Jacinto |
| 29% | STEVIE | 6 | With 31-Across, "Sir Duke" singer who won the 1977 Grammy for Producer of the Year, Non-Classical |
| 29% | DAVID | 5 | With 34-Across, Red Sox pitcher who won the MLB Comeback Player of the Year Award in 2018 |
| 28% | CHRIS | 5 | With 38-Across, "I'm Comin' Over" singer who won the fourth season of "Nashville Star" |
| 28% | TECUMSEH | 8 | Shawnee leader who fought against William Henry Harrison at Tippecanoe and sided with the British against the US in the War of 1812 |
| 28% | SIDNEY | 6 | With 32-Across, Penguins center who won the Conn Smythe Trophy as MVP of the NHL playoffs |
| 28% | WAYNE | 5 | General who won 1794's Battle of Fallen Timbers |
| 28% | JUSTIN | 6 | With 35-Across, "Yummy" singer who won the Pop Album of the Year Juno in 2011 and 2016 |
| 28% | AGRIPPA | 7 | Roman general who won Battle of Actium |
| 28% | NANCY | 5 | With 44-Across, golfer who was named both LPGA Rookie of the Year and LPGA Player of the Year in 1978 |
| 28% | JORDAN | 6 | With 33-Across, golfer who won both PGA Tour Player of the Year and Rookie of the Year awards |
| 27% | LOSES | 5 | Wins the battle of the bulge, oddly |
| 27% | LITTLE | 6 | & 1D Battle of the —, 1876 conflict at which General George A Custer was killed |
| 27% | BOBBY | 5 | With 34-Across, two-time Olympic swimming gold medalist who won Athlete of the Year at the 2022 Golden Goggle Awards |
| 27% | DONNY | 5 | Osmond who won Season 9 of "Dancing With the Stars" |
| 27% | PANDARUS | 8 | Leader of the Lycians in Greek mythology who shot Menelaus with an arrow |
| 27% | DONNY | 5 | Singer Osmond who won a season of "Dancing With the Stars" |