| 100% | KIMBERLYSCHMIDT | 15 | Ellie Kemper title character (formally) who uses lots of paper products? |
| 37% | ALLTALK | 7 | Like one who uses lots of words but never acts (2 wds.) |
| 35% | CYRANODEBERGERAC | 16 | Title character who's ashamed of his nose |
| 34% | LEAR | 4 | Title character of whom it's said "Vex not his ghost" |
| 33% | PETERROGET | 10 | Best-selling author who used an awful lot of commas |
| 33% | GATSBY | 6 | Title character of classic American literature who is obsessed with a green light |
| 33% | RUDY | 4 | Biopic title character who dreams of playing football for Notre Dame |
| 32% | LOLA | 4 | Title character of song who "walks like a woman and talks like a man" |
| 32% | GATSBY | 6 | Title fictional character who "sprang from his Platonic conception of himself" |
| 31% | DREAMER | 7 | Someone who fantasizes a lot, like the title character of 15-/47-Across |
| 31% | REAMS | 5 | Lots of paper |
| 31% | YERTLE | 6 | Kid-lit title character who says "I am the ruler of all that I see!" |
| 31% | FRANFINE | 8 | Title character of 15-Across, whose first name is shared by actress Drescher who plays her: 2 wds. |
| 30% | POURITONTHICK | 13 | Use lots of flattery, say |
| 30% | ISRAEL | 6 | Character who provides the title of Chapter 26 of 1883 RL Stevenson novel Treasure Island |
| 30% | NAPKINDISPENSER | 15 | Holder of paper products |
| 30% | CALVIN | 6 | Comics title character who says "Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery" |
| 29% | LATHERER | 8 | One using lots of soap |
| 29% | EYRE | 4 | Literary character who inspired the title of the 2016 anthology “Reader, I Married Him” |
| 29% | FONTS | 5 | Lots of characters? |
| 29% | SBARRO | 6 | Chain using lots of 2-Down |
| 29% | REAMS | 5 | Somehow smear a lot of paper |
| 28% | GODOT | 5 | Title character who never appears |
| 28% | ABIE | 4 | Title character of 1920s Broadway |
| 28% | BILBO | 5 | Title character of "The Hobbit" |
| 28% | MILO | 4 | ___ Murphy, title character of a Disney series about a descendant of "Murphy's law" who wears a red striped sweater vest |
| 28% | ALEC | 4 | Baldwin who voices the title character of "The Boss Baby" |
| 28% | GASHOG | 6 | Car that uses lots of fuel: 2 wds. |
| 28% | GODOT | 5 | Title character who is never onstage |
| 28% | PETER | 5 | Title character of a Prokofiev favorite |