| 100% | AHAB | 4 | Captain who chases a white whale, in a classic novel |
| 65% | AHAB | 4 | Captain chasing a white whale in "Moby-Dick" |
| 55% | AHAB | 4 | Fictional captain who hunts a white whale |
| 55% | AHAB | 4 | Captain in a classic novel |
| 47% | MOBYDICK | 8 | 1851 novel featuring Captain Ahab's obsessive quest for a white whale: Hyph. |
| 47% | UNPERSON | 8 | Someone who's been erased by the Party, in a classic dystopian novel |
| 46% | AHAB | 4 | Literary captain who asks "Wilt thou not chase the white whale?" |
| 44% | AHAB | 4 | Obsessed ship captain hunting for a whale called Moby Dick, in an 1851 novel |
| 43% | AHAB | 4 | Literary captain obsessed with a white whale |
| 43% | KARENINA | 8 | Oblonsky's sister, in a classic novel |
| 42% | AHAB | 4 | Captain for Ishmael and Queequeg, in a Melville novel |
| 42% | TARA | 4 | It had "well-kept acres," in a classic novel |
| 42% | ANNA | 4 | She's caught between two Alexeis in a classic novel |
| 42% | ANNA | 4 | Count Vronsky's titular lover in a classic Tolstoy novel |
| 42% | DOROTHY | 7 | Traveler who picks up three companions in a classic film |
| 42% | OLMANRIVER | 10 | Who "just keeps rollin' along" in a classic show tune |
| 42% | HAROLDANDKUMAR | 14 | Friends who go to White Castle in a 2004 film |
| 42% | YOU | 3 | Whom 39-Down wants, in a classic poster |
| 41% | AHAB | 4 | Fictional captain hunting a white whale |
| 41% | AHAB | 4 | Obsessed captain in a Melville novel |
| 41% | TRUMAN | 6 | Whom "Dewey Defeats" in a classic Chicago Tribune headline |
| 41% | DAISYBUCHANAN | 13 | Woman with a botanical name in a classic novel set in the Roaring Twenties (2 wds.) |
| 41% | ATNOON | 6 | When there's "darkness" in a classic Arthur Koestler novel |
| 40% | ALGERNON | 8 | Titular mouse in a classic Daniel Keyes novel |
| 40% | EXORCISM | 8 | Event in a classic William Peter Blatty novel |
| 40% | TEENAGE | 7 | Like the "wasteland" in a classic Who song |
| 40% | LASSIE | 6 | Collie who starred in a classic TV series |
| 40% | NEMO | 4 | Captain in a Jules Verne novel |
| 40% | DONALD | 6 | Character who explores Mathmagic Land, in a classic Disney educational cartoon |
| 40% | KINGDOM | 7 | One of three in a classic Chen Shou novel |