| 100% | ROY | 3 | ___ Anderson, recurring character who is a warehouse employee in "The Office" |
| 74% | KAREN | 5 | ___ Filippelli, recurring character who is a Dunder Mifflin employee in "The Office" |
| 56% | JAN | 3 | ___ Levinson, recurring character who is an ex-Dunder Mifflin executive in "The Office" |
| 51% | JOHN | 4 | ___ Connor, character who is a sidekick to the Terminator in "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" |
| 51% | DIDDY | 5 | ___ Kong, monkey character who is a sidekick to Donkey Kong in the video game franchise |
| 50% | IAGO | 4 | Character who is briefly turned into a roc in the 2019 movie "Aladdin" |
| 50% | ROBERT | 6 | ___ California, recurring character who becomes the CEO of Sabre in "The Office" |
| 50% | SULU | 4 | "Star Trek" character who was named for a sea in the Philippines |
| 49% | SISTER | 6 | With 29-Across, Pam Ferris character who was a midwife and nun in Nonnatus House on "Call the Midwife" |
| 47% | RICHARDCASTLE | 13 | Writer who was the title character in a 2009-2016 crime series: 2 wds. |
| 46% | ILSA | 4 | Character who says “Kiss me as if it were the last time” to Rick, in a 1942 film |
| 46% | REA | 3 | Actor Stephen who is portrayed as a character in the 2024 historical drama series “Say Nothing” |
| 46% | HUMPTY | 6 | ___ Dumpty, popular nursery rhyme character who was a reformed antagonist in the "Shrek" universe |
| 46% | NEMO | 4 | Film character who spends most of the movie in the waiting room of a dentist's office |
| 45% | POIROT | 6 | Recurring character who dies in the novel "Curtain" |
| 43% | SLAUGHTER | 9 | Sergeant who was a wrestler in the WWF |
| 43% | GODOT | 5 | Beckett title character who is not in the cast |
| 43% | BURR | 4 | Vice president Aaron who is a character in "Hamilton" |
| 43% | MINDYKALING | 11 | "The Office" actress who was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2023 (2 wds.) |
| 43% | NELSON | 6 | Judd who was a bad boy in The Breakfast Club |
| 43% | MEIR | 4 | Golda who was a prime minister in the early 1970s |
| 42% | SUPERMAN | 8 | Character who is lifting a car on the cover of "Action Comics" #1 |
| 42% | ERNEST | 6 | Novelist Hemingway, who was a main character in "Midnight in Paris" |
| 42% | PATRICK | 7 | ___ Star, pink starfish who is a regular character in "SpongeBob SquarePants" |
| 42% | PATTON | 6 | U.S. general who was a pentathlete in the 1912 Olympics |
| 42% | SPONGEBOB | 9 | Character who lives in a pineapple under the sea |
| 42% | ARES | 4 | Marvel Comics character who is the god of war in Greek mythology |
| 42% | BONO | 4 | Irishman who was a Time magazine Person of the Year in 2005 |
| 42% | KEN | 3 | Jennings who was a team captain in the Jeopardy! All-Star Games |
| 42% | ART | 3 | ___ Vandelay, George's recurring fake character who turns out to be a real judge in the final "Seinfeld" episode |