| 100% | DEWY | 4 | Dick —, character in 1872 Thomas Hardy novel Under the Greenwood Tree in love with Fancy Day |
| 37% | DONN | 4 | Arabella —, wife of the title character in 1895 Thomas Hardy novel Jude the Obscure |
| 36% | EVERDENE | 8 | Bathsheba —, character in 1874 Thomas Hardy novel Far From the Madding Crowd |
| 36% | FARFRAE | 7 | Donald —, Scottish character in 1886 Thomas Hardy novel The Mayor of Casterbridge |
| 36% | HENCHARD | 8 | Michael —, hay-trusser; title character in 1886 Thomas Hardy novel The Mayor of Casterbridge |
| 34% | ANGEL | 5 | Character in Thomas Hardy novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles who marries the heroine |
| 30% | THEHAND | 7 | & 22A 1876 Thomas Hardy novel featuring the character Lady Petherwin |
| 29% | TESS | 4 | __ of the d'Urbervilles, in Thomas Hardy novel |
| 28% | CLYM | 4 | & 11D Paris diamond merchant; title character in 1878 Thomas Hardy work The Return of the Native |
| 27% | VYE | 3 | Eustacia —, wife of Clym Yeobright in Thomas Hardy novel The Return of the Native |
| 27% | ELMS | 4 | "Desire Under the ___" (Eugene O'Neill play with trees in the title) |
| 27% | ELMS | 4 | "Desire Under the ___" (O'Neill play with trees in the title) |
| 27% | MORGAN | 6 | Organ ---, character in the Dylan Thomas BBC Radio drama Under Milk Wood |
| 26% | DAMON | 5 | ___ Salvatore, vampire character who loves Elena in the novel series "The Vampire Diaries" |
| 25% | TESS | 4 | Title woman in a Thomas Hardy novel |
| 25% | TESS | 4 | Thomas Hardy novel "___ of the d'Urbervilles" |
| 25% | TESS | 4 | Thomas Hardy novel, "__ of the d'Urbervilles" |
| 25% | BELLE | 5 | Character from the Disney Princess franchise who falls in love with a cursed prince in the film based on a French fairy tale |
| 25% | TESS | 4 | Joan Durbeyfield’s daughter, in a Thomas Hardy novel |
| 25% | NATIVE | 6 | The Return of the __, Thomas Hardy novel |
| 24% | MADDINGCROWD | 12 | "Far from the ____," 1874 novel by Thomas Hardy which is about the farming community in Victorian England: 2 wds. |
| 24% | LEIA | 4 | Character who falls in love with Han Solo |
| 24% | JUDE | 4 | "___ the Obscure," novel by Thomas Hardy about, published in 1895 a working-class young man who dreams of becoming a scholar |
| 24% | EYES | 4 | "A Pair of Blue ___," 1873 novel by Thomas Hardy about the love triangle of Elfride Swancourt and her two suitors |
| 24% | BLUESKIES | 9 | Irving Berlin song with the lyrics “Noticing the days hurrying by / When you’re in love, my, how they fly” |