| 100% | ERNEST | 6 | Companion of Algernon in an Oscar Wilde play |
| 47% | DORIAN | 6 | Gray in an Oscar Wilde story |
| 45% | EARNEST | 7 | Oscar Wilde play, The Importance of Being __ |
| 44% | SALOME | 6 | One-act Strauss opera adapted from an Oscar Wilde play |
| 42% | MERYLSTREEP | 11 | Actress nominated for an Oscar for playing a music teacher in "Music of the Heart": 2 wds. |
| 42% | AGENT | 5 | Recipient of thanks in an Oscars acceptance speech |
| 41% | HUSBAND | 7 | Oscar Wilde wrote a play about An Ideal one |
| 41% | HUSBAND | 7 | Oscar Wilde wrote about An Ideal one in 1895 |
| 41% | IDEAL | 5 | "An ___ Husband" (1999 film based on an Oscar Wilde play) |
| 40% | DISCONTENTISTHE | 15 | Start of an Oscar Wilde quote |
| 40% | SCENE | 5 | Part of an act, in a play |
| 40% | IDEAL | 5 | "An ___ Husband" (Rupert Everett film based on an Oscar Wilde play) |
| 39% | PISTOL | 6 | Companion of Falstaff in Henry V and other plays by William Shakespeare |
| 39% | SCENE | 5 | Part of an act, in a Broadway play |
| 39% | SCENE | 5 | Division of an act in a play |
| 39% | SCENE | 5 | Part of an act in a play |
| 38% | BARDOLPH | 8 | Companion of Falstaff sentenced to hang for looting in William Shakespeare play Henry V |
| 38% | ENYA | 4 | Singer with an Oscar-nominated song in "The Lord of the Rings" |
| 38% | EARNEST | 7 | Play by Oscar Wilde: "The Importance of Being __" |
| 37% | NORMA | 5 | Sally won an Oscar for playing her in 1979 |
| 37% | POLO | 4 | Game played in an anagram of itself |
| 37% | SALOME | 6 | Oscar Wilde play |
| 37% | TESS | 4 | ___ Harper, actress nominated for an Oscar for her role in Crimes of the Heart |
| 37% | SALOME | 6 | Play by Oscar Wilde first produced in Paris in 1896 |
| 37% | JAMIEFOXX | 9 | He won an Oscar for playing Ray Charles in 2004 |
| 37% | BARDOLPH | 8 | Companion of Falstaff in the William Shakespeare play Henry V sentenced to hang for looting |
| 36% | FOSSE | 5 | Winner of an Oscar, Emmy and Tony in 1973 |
| 36% | URHAMLET | 8 | Play that may be an early version of a Shakespeare tragedy set in Denmark |
| 36% | ENOS | 4 | Actor John ___ who played an Elvis impersonator in "Days of Our Lives" |
| 36% | STEPHENFRY | 10 | *Actor who played Oscar Wilde in "Wilde" [fish] |