| 100% | ISN | 3 | Wrong name: m___ame |
| 66% | ISN | 3 | M___omer: wrong name |
| 58% | MISNOMER | 8 | Wrong name |
| 52% | MISNOMER | 8 | A wrong name or designation |
| 49% | ERRS | 4 | Calls someone by the wrong name, say |
| 48% | ALOU | 4 | M.L.B. family name |
| 48% | ERR | 3 | Call someone by the wrong name, e.g. |
| 48% | ERR | 3 | Call someone by the wrong name, for example |
| 47% | SLOAN | 5 | M.I.T. business school name |
| 46% | NDS | 3 | Make ame___ for your wrongs |
| 46% | ENGINEERS | 9 | M.I.T.'s sports team name |
| 46% | MISNOMER | 8 | Wrong name … even though 51-Across doesn't mean the right name |
| 45% | CANO | 4 | M.L.B. star named for Jackie Robinson |
| 44% | AGGIES | 6 | Texas A and M team name |
| 44% | ISN | 3 | Give a wrong title to a person: m___ame |
| 43% | ERR | 3 | Get someone's name wrong, e.g. |
| 43% | SPRING | 6 | Chinese New Year wrong season name: __ Festival |
| 43% | PHILS | 5 | M.L.B. team named after its city, familiarly |
| 43% | ASTROS | 6 | M.L.B. team with a mascot named Orbit |
| 43% | BETTE | 5 | The Divine Miss M's first name |
| 43% | BLTS | 4 | Snacks whose name might elide an M |
| 43% | STS | 3 | Many are named after M.L.K. |
| 42% | ROB | 3 | Good as a name, wrong as an action? |
| 42% | RNS | 3 | Med. professionals who take a pledge named for Florence Nightingale |
| 40% | CITI | 4 | Bank with M.L.B. naming rights, for short |
| 40% | STARR | 5 | Aptly named two-time Super Bowl M.V.P. |
| 39% | YAO | 3 | First name of former Houston Rockets player from China, ___ Ming |
| 39% | HOULIHAN | 8 | Last name of Hot Lips from M*A*S*H |
| 39% | TSAI | 4 | Chef Ming ___, whose last name is hidden in "condiments aisle" |
| 39% | MATSUI | 6 | Slugger Hideki named the 2009 World Series M.V.P. |