| 100% | BFG | 3 | 1982 Roald Dahl novel, with "The" |
| 74% | BFG | 3 | 2016 film based on a Roald Dahl novel, with "The" |
| 59% | BFG | 3 | Roald Dahl book, with "The" |
| 56% | SALT | 4 | Veruca —, winner of one of five Golden Tickets in 1964 Roald Dahl novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory |
| 55% | WILLY | 5 | ___ Wonka, eccentric chocolatier from Roald Dahl's children's novel "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" |
| 54% | TWITS | 5 | Roald Dahl book about a wicked couple, with "The" |
| 53% | DUNE | 4 | Novel with the desert planet Arrakis |
| 52% | MATILDA | 7 | Roald Dahl novel about a precocious girl |
| 52% | OMOO | 4 | Novel with the chapter "Farming in Polynesia" |
| 52% | BFG | 3 | Roald Dahl book that became a 2016 Steven Spielberg film, with "The" |
| 51% | JANEEYRE | 8 | Novel with the line "Reader, I married him" |
| 51% | THEBFG | 6 | Roald Dahl novel adapted as a 2016 Disney film |
| 50% | MATILDA | 7 | Title girl in a Roald Dahl novel |
| 50% | OPIONEERS | 9 | Classic novel with the heroine Alexandra Bergson |
| 49% | MOBYDICK | 8 | Melville novel with the line "Call me Ishmael" |
| 49% | OMOO | 4 | 1847 novel with the chapter "Life at Loohooloo" |
| 48% | MATILDA | 7 | Roald Dahl's genius character with telekinesis |
| 48% | ATALEOFTWOCITIES | 16 | Dickens novel with the 56-Across as its backdrop |
| 48% | UNCLEOSWALD | 11 | "My ___," Roald Dahl's adult novel published in 1979 about a man discovering the aphrodisiac powers of the Sudanese blister beetle: 2 wds. |
| 48% | YAAGYASI | 8 | Writer with the novel Homegoing |
| 48% | SOMETIME | 8 | & 2D 1948 Roald Dahl novel subtitled A Fable for Supermen |
| 48% | ELEVATOR | 8 | Roald Dahl book, Charlie and the Great Glass __ |
| 48% | UGLIES | 6 | 2005 Scott Westerfeld sci-fi novel with the sequel "Pretties" |
| 47% | TOTO | 4 | Band with the 1982 hit “Africa” |
| 47% | STAND | 5 | Stephen King novel, with The |
| 47% | OLDMANANDTHESEA | 15 | 1952 novel, with The |
| 47% | NEVERLETMEGO | 12 | 2005 Kazuo Ishiguro novel with the line “Carers aren’t machines” |
| 46% | VAMPIRE | 7 | Interview with the __, novel by Anne Rice |
| 46% | TILLIE | 6 | Walden with the graphic novel memoir "Spinning" |
| 46% | BFG | 3 | The —, 1982 children's book by Roald Dahl |