| 100% | DARN | 4 | Carton's counterpart in "A Tale of Two Cities" |
| 73% | MANETTE | 7 | The doctor in A Tale of Two Cities: Alexandre __ |
| 63% | LUCIE | 5 | A Tale of Two Cities heroine |
| 62% | LUCIE | 5 | ___ Manette, woman in "A Tale of Two Cities" |
| 61% | DEFARGE | 7 | Villainous knitter in “A Tale of Two Cities” |
| 61% | DICKENS | 7 | He wrote A Tale of Two Cities |
| 58% | SYDNEYCARTON | 12 | London barrister in 1859 Charles Dickens novel A Tale of Two Cities |
| 56% | PARIS | 5 | "A Tale of Two Cities" city |
| 56% | GUILLOTINE | 10 | "A Tale of Two Cities" ender? |
| 56% | LUCIE | 5 | "A Tale of Two Cities" heroine |
| 55% | DARNAY | 6 | Charles ___, fictional character from "A Tale of Two Cities" |
| 53% | MADAMEDEFARGE | 13 | Villainous woman in Charles Dickens's "A Tale of Two Cities" whose knitting encodes her enemies' names: 2 wds. |
| 52% | ITWASTHEBEST | 12 | With 36 and 57 Across, ''A Tale of Two Cities'' beginning |
| 51% | BEHEADED | 8 | Like Sydney Carton at the end of "A Tale of Two Cities" |
| 49% | BLANC | 5 | Noir's counterpart in a game of les échecs |
| 48% | TWEETYBIRD | 10 | Cartoon canary who first appeared in 1942's A Tale of Two Kitties |
| 48% | ITWAS | 5 | Opening words of "A Tale of Two Cities" |
| 48% | WAS | 3 | Second word of "A Tale of Two Cities" |
| 48% | ITWAS | 5 | First words of "A Tale of Two Cities" |
| 48% | MADAME | 6 | ___ Defarge of "A Tale of Two Cities" |
| 48% | REDDEER | 7 | City in S Alberta, Canada, on a major tributary of the South Saskatchewan River |
| 48% | BASTILLE | 8 | Setting for part of "A Tale of Two Cities" |
| 48% | WEEKLY | 6 | Like the installments of "A Tale of Two Cities" |
| 48% | WAS | 3 | Second word of ''A Tale of Two Cities'' |
| 47% | IAMB | 4 | One of two in The Winter's Tale |
| 47% | WAS | 3 | Word seen 11 times in the opening line of "A Tale of Two Cities" |
| 47% | SEATAC | 6 | Washington hub that's a portmanteau of two cities |
| 47% | FANG | 4 | One of two in a king cobra's mouth |
| 46% | TUE | 3 | The first of two T's, in a familiar sequence |
| 46% | TWOCITIES | 9 | A Tale of __, 2009 installment in Underbelly show |