| 100% | DARNAY | 6 | Charles ___, hero of "A Tale of Two Cities" |
| 85% | SYDNEYCARTON | 12 | London barrister in 1859 Charles Dickens novel A Tale of Two Cities |
| 78% | DARNAY | 6 | Charles ___, fictional character from "A Tale of Two Cities" |
| 76% | LUCIE | 5 | A Tale of Two Cities heroine |
| 73% | DICKENS | 7 | He wrote A Tale of Two Cities |
| 73% | MADAMEDEFARGE | 13 | Villainous woman in Charles Dickens's "A Tale of Two Cities" whose knitting encodes her enemies' names: 2 wds. |
| 72% | MANETTE | 7 | The doctor in A Tale of Two Cities: Alexandre __ |
| 69% | MADAME | 6 | ___ Defarge of "A Tale of Two Cities" |
| 68% | ITWAS | 5 | Opening words of "A Tale of Two Cities" |
| 68% | WAS | 3 | Second word of "A Tale of Two Cities" |
| 68% | ITWAS | 5 | First words of "A Tale of Two Cities" |
| 67% | BASTILLE | 8 | Setting for part of "A Tale of Two Cities" |
| 67% | WEEKLY | 6 | Like the installments of "A Tale of Two Cities" |
| 67% | PARIS | 5 | "A Tale of Two Cities" city |
| 67% | GUILLOTINE | 10 | "A Tale of Two Cities" ender? |
| 67% | LUCIE | 5 | "A Tale of Two Cities" heroine |
| 66% | WAS | 3 | Second word of ''A Tale of Two Cities'' |
| 65% | BEHEADED | 8 | Like Sydney Carton at the end of "A Tale of Two Cities" |
| 65% | DEFARGE | 7 | Villainous knitter in “A Tale of Two Cities” |
| 65% | LUCIE | 5 | ___ Manette, woman in "A Tale of Two Cities" |
| 64% | DARN | 4 | Carton's counterpart in "A Tale of Two Cities" |
| 64% | WAS | 3 | Word seen 11 times in the opening line of "A Tale of Two Cities" |
| 63% | TALE | 4 | Charles Dickens' "A ___ of Two Cities" |
| 63% | ITWASTHEBEST | 12 | With 36 and 57 Across, ''A Tale of Two Cities'' beginning |
| 62% | TALE | 4 | "A ___ of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens |
| 61% | TALE | 4 | "A ___ of Two Cities" (novel by Charles Dickens) |
| 61% | TALE | 4 | "A ___ of Two Cities," novel by Charles Dickens |
| 59% | TWOCITIES | 9 | Charles Dickens wrote a Tale of them |
| 59% | ALIBABA | 7 | Hero of a tale told by Scheherazade |
| 59% | WINTER | 6 | "It was the spring of hope, it was the ___ of despair" (A Tale of Two Cities line) |