| 100% | YESWE | 5 | With 47-Down, Barack Obama's 2008 campaign slogan (2 wds.) |
| 49% | ILIKE | 5 | With 57-Down, Eisenhower campaign slogan: 2 wds. |
| 47% | YESWECAN | 8 | 2008 Obama campaign slogan (3 wds.) |
| 46% | YESWECAN | 8 | 2008 Obama campaign slogan: 3 wds. |
| 45% | JOEBIDEN | 8 | Barack Obama's vice president: 2 wds. |
| 44% | HOPE | 4 | Slogan for Obama's 2008 campaign |
| 37% | JOHNROBERTS | 11 | Supreme Court justice who swore in Barack Obama: 2 wds. |
| 36% | RICHARDBLANCO | 13 | Poet who read "One Today" at Barack Obama's second inauguration (2 wds.) |
| 35% | OBAMA | 5 | Candidate with the 2008 campaign slogan “Yes We Can” |
| 35% | YESWECAN | 8 | 2008 campaign slogan |
| 34% | YESWECAN | 8 | 2008 Obama campaign phrase (3 wds.) |
| 34% | THEDUKES | 8 | With 47-Across, 1980s action-comedy show made into a 2005 film starring Johnny Knoxville: 2 wds. |
| 34% | YOGIBERRA | 9 | Quotable Yankees catcher posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Barack Obama: 2 wds. |
| 34% | DOIT | 4 | "Just ___": 2 wds. (Nike's slogan) |
| 34% | DONTSTOP | 8 | With 47-Across, Journey song that was the soundtrack to the final scene of 27-Across: 2 wds. |
| 34% | REDSOX | 6 | With 47 Down, Fenway fans |
| 34% | ARCH | 4 | With 47 Down, a sport |
| 33% | SIR | 3 | With 47 Down, Minuteman Press competitor |
| 33% | PAY | 3 | With 47 Down, scales for staff |
| 33% | WECAN | 5 | "Yes __": 2008 campaign slogan |
| 32% | SLOGAN | 6 | "Yes We Can," for Obama's 2008 campaign |
| 32% | SOUND | 5 | With 47-Down, speaker's place |
| 32% | NEEDA | 5 | With 47-Down, driver's question |
| 32% | BOB | 3 | With 47-Down, Disney's CEO |
| 32% | ONIT | 4 | "Everything's better with Blue Bonnet ___" (margarine slogan): 2 wds. |
| 31% | SALTLAKE | 8 | With 63-Down, Utah's capital: 2 wds. |
| 31% | ILIKE | 5 | With 57-Down, 1950s campaign slogan |
| 31% | IRAQ | 4 | With 33-Down, topic in the 2008 presidential campaign |
| 31% | YESWE | 5 | "___ Can" (Obama's slogan): 2 wds. |
| 30% | JET | 3 | With 46-Down, air traveler's affliction: 2 wds. |