| Hint | Character |
| Rockstar who spent some time dead (for tax reason) | |
| Ran against Zaphod in the presidential elections | |
| The founder of the Guide | |
| Chairman of the Board of Judges at the Krikkit War Crimes Trial | |
| Brother of Stavro, owner of Club Alpha | |
| Old woman who sees Arthur & Fenchurch flying | |
| Dog who looks like Ronald Reagan | |
| Vogon who directs Jeltz's constructor fleet | |
| Christens the bulldozer which knocks down Arthur's house | |
| Man who guards God's Final Message to His Creation | |
| Great poet who wrote without education or correction fluid | |
| Customizer of starships; his emblem is an infra-pink lizard | |
| Fourth editor of the guide who never actually resigned | |
| Woman who has been cloned over 578,000,000,000 times | |
| 1 of 2 people who return to Deep Thought to find out the answer | |
| The cat who belongs to the man who controls the universe | |
| A man who never married and thus never globbered | |
| 1 of 2 people who ask Deep Thought the Ultimate Question | |
| 1 of 2 philosophers who demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty | |
| Host at Milliways & The Big Bang Burger Bar | |
| TV anchorwoman who left her show due to being pregnant | |
| Journalist from one of those papers with small pages and big print | |
| Prophet on Lamuella | |
| Author of 'Where God Went Wrong', among other titles | |
| The absolute worst poet in the universe | |
| Representative of a cloning company | |
| Witness in a trial who was injected with too much truth serum | |
| Fictional US President from Book 5 | |