| 100% | BARB | 4 | "Stranger Things" character who went missing in season 1 |
| 60% | BARB | 4 | Girl who goes missing in Netflix's "Stranger Things" |
| 47% | EDDIE | 5 | Stranger Things character who leads the Hellfire Club |
| 44% | OPHELIA | 7 | Character who went mad in Shakespeare's Hamlet |
| 43% | NEMO | 4 | Fish who went missing in the 2003 movie that preceded 18-Across |
| 43% | {FIN}IAN | 8 | Character who goes to Rainbow Valley in a 1968 film musical |
| 42% | BARB | 4 | Missing girl in season one of Netflix's "Stranger Things" |
| 42% | ELSA | 4 | Character who sings "Let It Go" in "Frozen" |
| 41% | MEANSTREAK | 10 | 2014 Sandra Brown bestseller about a doctor who goes missing in the mountain wilderness: 2 wds. |
| 40% | ELSA | 4 | Character who sings "Let It Go" in the Broadway musical "Frozen" |
| 40% | MIKEWHEELER | 11 | Played by Finn Wolfhard, character who is one of Will Byers' three friends in "Stranger Things": 2 wds. |
| 39% | ELSA | 4 | Character in "Frozen" who sings "Let It Go" |
| 39% | BRODY | 5 | Lead character in seasons 1-3 of "Homeland" |
| 39% | NIA | 3 | Long whose character goes missing in “Missing” |
| 38% | RAYNAJAYMES | 11 | Connie Britton's "Nashville" character who died in season 5: 2 wds. |
| 38% | BLACK | 5 | ___ Widow, Marvel character who goes by the name of Natalia Romanoff and appears in "The Avengers" movies |
| 38% | STAN | 4 | Lee who created the character referenced in 1-Across |
| 37% | SUPERMAN | 8 | Character who debuted in Action Comics #1 |
| 37% | DEREKSHEPHERD | 13 | Patrick Dempsey's "Grey's Anatomy" character who died in season 11: 2 wds. |
| 37% | DENNY | 5 | ___ Duquette, character who tragically left the show in season 2 of "Grey's Anatomy" |
| 37% | PERCY | 5 | Charles ___, character who tragically left the show in season 6 of "Grey's Anatomy" |
| 37% | RIZZO | 5 | Character in "Grease" who sings "There Are Worse Things I Could Do" |
| 37% | EDDARDSTARK | 11 | Sean Bean's "Game of Thrones" character who died in season 1: 2 wds. |
| 36% | WOLFHARD | 8 | Finn who plays Mike in Stranger Things |
| 36% | ERIC | 4 | Actor Bana who starred in season 1 of "Dirty John"` |
| 35% | NIA | 3 | ___ Long (actor whose character goes missing in Missing) |
| 35% | NEMO | 4 | Pixar clownfish who goes missing |
| 35% | OPHELIA | 7 | Shakespeare character who goes insane |
| 35% | MAYAHAWKE | 9 | She's Robin in Stranger Things Season 3 |
| 34% | AWOL | 4 | Gone missing, in military lingo: Abbr. |