| 100% | HUR | 3 | "Ben-___: A Tale of the Christ," Lew Wallace classic |
| 95% | HUR | 3 | "Ben-___: A Tale of the Christ" (Lew Wallace classic) |
| 75% | HUR | 3 | Lew Wallace's "Ben-___: A Tale of the Christ" |
| 72% | LEW | 3 | "Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ" novelist Wallace |
| 68% | BENHUR | 6 | 1880 novel by Lew Wallace subtitled A Tale of the Christ |
| 66% | HUR | 3 | "Ben-___: A Tale of the Christ" |
| 48% | ATALE | 5 | Lew Wallace's "Ben-Hur: ___ of the Christ" |
| 47% | DRED | 4 | "___: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp" |
| 45% | DRED | 4 | "___: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp," novel by Harriet Stowe |
| 44% | DRED | 4 | Stowe's novel "___: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp" |
| 44% | CINDERELLA | 10 | 2015 movie version of a classic fairy tale, with 15-Across as the title character |
| 44% | NOSTROMO | 8 | 1904 novel by Joseph Conrad subtitled A Tale of the Seaboard |
| 43% | DUST | 4 | "___: A Tale of the Wired West," single-player video game published by GTE Entertainment |
| 43% | RUDGE | 5 | "Barnaby ___: A Tale of the Riots of Eighty," historical novel by Charles Dickens |
| 42% | DRED | 4 | 1856 novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe subtitled A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp |
| 41% | ECLIPSE | 7 | "Total __ of the Heart", a Bonnie Tyler classic |
| 40% | PIETAS | 6 | Paintings of the Virgin Mary with a dead Christ |
| 40% | ALCHEMIST | 9 | Paulo Coelho's tale of a shepherd boy, The __ |
| 40% | ZOOTOPIA | 8 | Disney tale of a rabbit joining the police force |
| 40% | PAPA | 4 | Biggest of the Three Bears, in a fairy tale |
| 40% | SAL | 3 | Mineo of the 1955 classic "Rebel Without a Cause" |
| 40% | HUR | 3 | "Ben-___," Lew Wallace classic |
| 40% | OZZIEANDHARRIET | 15 | The titular Nelsons of a classic sitcom |
| 39% | GATSBY | 6 | The Great __, DiCaprio's remake of a classic |
| 39% | OBIWAN | 6 | Real name of Ben, in a sci-fi classic |
| 39% | MANETTE | 7 | The doctor in A Tale of Two Cities: Alexandre __ |
| 39% | BLUEBEARD | 9 | *Villainous noble of a classic French tale |