| 100% | ROBINDIANGELO | 13 | Writer of the bestseller "White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism" (2 wds.) |
| 46% | IJEOMAOLUO | 10 | Writer of the bestseller "So You Want to Talk About Race" (2 wds.) |
| 35% | THELIGHTHOUSE | 13 | "To ___," writer Virginia Woolf's novel about the Ramsay family's visits to the Isle of Skye: 2 wds. |
| 34% | FIGHTCLUB | 9 | Group in a 1999 movie whose first rule of membership is not to talk about it: 2 wds. |
| 34% | HARRYSTYLES | 11 | "As It Was" singer who won the People's Choice Award for Male Artist of 2022: 2 wds. |
| 34% | HOMEALONE | 9 | 1990 film that Roger Ebert called "so implausible that it makes it hard for us to really care about the plight of the kid" |
| 33% | DAVIDFOSTER | 11 | "Let's Talk About Love" producer who won the 1985, 1992, and 1994 Grammys for Producer of the Year, Non-Classical: 2 wds. |
| 32% | LAYLAFSAAD | 10 | Writer of the bestseller "Me and White Supremacy" (3 wds.) |
| 32% | BEVERLYCLEARY | 13 | Writer of the Ramona Quimby children's books who lived to age 104: 2 wds. |
| 32% | ATIP | 4 | "It was nice of you to leave ___ for the waiter.": 2 wds. |
| 31% | ONEI | 4 | REM's 1987 hit "The ___ Love" (commonly thought to be a love song though it's about using people): 2 wds. |
| 31% | JOHNDALY | 8 | 1991 PGA Championship winner who is the subject of the 2016 ESPN "30 for 30" documentary "Hit It Hard": 2 wds. |
| 31% | CALLERID | 8 | It tells people who's trying to reach them on the phone: 2 wds., abbr. |
| 31% | HARRYSTYLES | 11 | "As It Was" singer who was honored with the People's Choice Award for The Male Artist of 2022 (2 wds.) |
| 30% | ELLENPOMPEO | 11 | Winner of the most recent People's Choice Award for Favorite Dramatic TV Actress (for "Grey's Anatomy"): 2 wds. |
| 30% | BONNIERAITT | 11 | One of Rolling Stone's "250 Greatest Guitarists of All Time," she plays guitar on "Something to Talk About": 2 wds. |
| 30% | TAYLORSWIFT | 11 | "Lavender Haze" singer who won the People's Choice Award for Female Artist of 2022: 2 wds. |
| 30% | DAILYMAIL | 9 | Newspaper behind the hoax about a man who thought he had to run for 26 days instead of 26 miles for the London Marathon: 2 wds. |
| 30% | ROBERTFROST | 11 | 17-Across and 26-Across writer who is the only person to win four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry (2 wds.) |
| 30% | PROUDMARY | 9 | Girl in a Tina Turner song from the soundtrack of "What's Love Got to Do with It": 2 wds. |
| 30% | DIANAROSS | 9 | "Stop! In the Name of Love" singer named one of People's Most Beautiful for 2017: 2 wds. |
| 30% | CHRISCOLFER | 11 | Winner of the most recent People's Choice Award for Favorite Comedic TV Actor (for "Glee"): 2 wds. |
| 30% | RBG | 3 | Initials of the person who said "Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you" |
| 29% | SAMUELBECKETT | 13 | 20th-century writer of the French plays "Waiting for Godot" and "Endgame": 2 wds. |
| 29% | OVERDOIT | 8 | Try too hard, to the point of exhaustion: 2 wds. |
| 29% | DAVIDKOCH | 9 | Businessman who's tied for No. 4 on the Forbes list of the world's wealthiest people: 2 wds. |
| 29% | NATHANFILLION | 13 | Winner of the most recent People's Choice Award for Favorite Crime Drama TV Actor (for "Castle"): 2 wds. |
| 29% | TUNE | 4 | It's hard for some people to carry |
| 29% | SECRET | 6 | It may be hard for one person to carry |
| 29% | INON | 4 | " I think both of them were ___ it. They seemed so calm during the assault" : 2 wds. |