| 100% | OSCAR | 5 | With 7-Across, writer who said "I can resist everything except temptation" |
| 55% | OSCARWILDE | 10 | Irish wit who wrote "I can resist everything except temptation": 2 wds. |
| 52% | WILDE | 5 | "I can resist everything except temptation" wit |
| 47% | MAE | 3 | West who said, "I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it." |
| 47% | MAEWEST | 7 | Actress who said "I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it" |
| 47% | MAE | 3 | West who said "I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it" |
| 46% | MAE | 3 | Actress West who said, "I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it" |
| 45% | MAE | 3 | 1930s sex symbol West who said, "I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it" |
| 42% | TEMPTATION | 10 | "I can resist everything except ___": Oscar Wilde |
| 39% | CHICO | 5 | With 35-Across, actor who said "You can't fool me, there ain't no Sanity Clause" |
| 38% | CHISHOLM | 8 | With 7 Across, she who said, "If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair." |
| 36% | TEDLASSO | 8 | TV character who said "Heck, you could fill two internets with what I don’t know about football" |
| 35% | ALICE | 5 | With 7-Across, short story writer who won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 33% | ASIMOV | 6 | Writer who said "I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander" |
| 33% | COLBERT | 7 | Who said "I can't prove it, but I can say it" |
| 32% | BERRA | 5 | Yogi who said, "I didn't really say everything I said" |
| 32% | ROMEO | 5 | Character who said "Thus with a kiss I die" |
| 32% | ELLIOTT | 7 | Film character who says "E.T., stay with me" |
| 31% | FIT | 3 | With 7-Across, dovetail with, say |
| 31% | BERRA | 5 | Oft-quoted athlete who said, “I really didn’t say everything I said” |
| 31% | BERRA | 5 | Hall of Famer who said "I really didn't say everything I said" |
| 31% | EYRE | 4 | Heroine who says "I resisted all the way: a new thing for me" |
| 31% | MIKHAIL | 7 | With 117 Across, dancer who can't help disrupting sermons? |
| 31% | DOH | 3 | "I'm Just a Girl Who Can't Say ___" (episode of "The Simpsons" with a punny title) |
| 31% | ABE | 3 | "Simpsons" character who said, "I'm an old man. I hate everything but Matlock!" |
| 30% | CAIN | 4 | Biblical person who says "My punishment is greater than I can bear" |
| 30% | BUTNOT | 6 | “... except the exact opposite of everything I just said” |
| 30% | TMI | 3 | "I wish I could unhear everything you just said" |
| 30% | CHOCOHOLIC | 10 | One who can't resist Hershey's, say |
| 30% | SIRI | 4 | Who asks "What can I help you with?" |