| 100% | HUR | 3 | Ben-___, character from Lew Wallace's 1880 novel |
| 59% | HUR | 3 | "Ben-___," religious drama film adapted from Lew Wallace's novel |
| 48% | BENHUR | 6 | 1880 novel by Lew Wallace subtitled A Tale of the Christ |
| 42% | HUR | 3 | Lew Wallace's "Ben-_____" |
| 42% | HUR | 3 | Lew Wallace's "Ben-___" |
| 41% | HUR | 3 | Judah's house in a Lew Wallace novel |
| 40% | ORR | 3 | Fictional character from Joseph Heller's novel "Catch-22" |
| 39% | ATALE | 5 | Lew Wallace's "Ben-Hur: ___ of the Christ" |
| 39% | HUR | 3 | Lew Wallace's "Ben-___: A Tale of the Christ" |
| 38% | HUR | 3 | "Ben-___," Lew Wallace's fictional classic |
| 38% | IGOR | 4 | Character surprisingly absent from the original Frankenstein novel |
| 37% | HUR | 3 | Family name in a Lew Wallace novel |
| 36% | EYRE | 4 | Jane ___, famous literary character from Charlotte Bronte's novel of the same name |
| 34% | EDWARD | 6 | ___ Cullen, 104-year-old vampire character from the "Twilight" novel series |
| 33% | MIA | 3 | ___ Wallace, character from "Pulp Fiction" |
| 33% | OYL | 3 | Character from cartoon's "Popeye," Olive ___ |
| 33% | BAMBI | 5 | Cartoon title character adapted from a Felix Salten novel |
| 32% | HUR | 3 | "Ben-___," Lew Wallace classic |
| 32% | LORNA | 5 | ___ Doone (cookie brand that shares its name with a character from a Victorian romance novel) |
| 32% | YANG | 4 | Christina ___, character from "Grey's Anatomy" |
| 31% | HERO | 4 | Novel's main character |
| 31% | ELTON | 5 | Ben —, comedian; author of novels This Other Eden and Blast from the Past |
| 31% | THEDUKES | 8 | & 14D 1880 Anthony Trollope novel featuring the character Lady Mabel Grex |
| 31% | EPILEPSY | 8 | Disorder from which Dostoyevsky and many characters in his novels suffered |
| 31% | KROOK | 5 | Character in the Charles Dickens novel Bleak House who dies from spontaneous human combustion |
| 31% | EVERDENE | 8 | Bathsheba —, character in 1874 Thomas Hardy novel Far From the Madding Crowd |
| 29% | BETH | 4 | ___ Harmon, character from "The Queen's Gambit" |
| 29% | SAM | 3 | Character from Yosemite |
| 29% | RHO | 3 | Character from Aristophanes? |
| 29% | RUNE | 4 | Character from Scandinavia |