| 100% | GILEAD | 6 | Fictional nation in "The Handmaid's Tale" and 6-Down |
| 52% | MARGARET | 8 | With 38-Down, "The Handmaid's Tale" and 6-Down novelist |
| 50% | OFFRED | 6 | Main character in The Handmaid's Tale |
| 46% | AUNT | 4 | Title for Lydia and Elizabeth in "The Handmaid's Tale" |
| 46% | SERENAJOY | 9 | The Commander's wife in The Handmaid's Tale |
| 44% | GILEAD | 6 | Theocratic regime in “The Handmaid’s Tale” |
| 43% | DYSTOPIA | 8 | Gilead in "The Handmaid's Tale," for one |
| 43% | BONNET | 6 | Hat seen in "The Handmaid's Tale" |
| 43% | AUNTS | 5 | Disciplinary women in "The Handmaid's Tale" |
| 43% | ELISABETHMOSS | 13 | "The Handmaid's Tale" actress who plays the writer Shirley Jackson in "Shirley" (2 wds.) |
| 43% | MCKENNAGRACE | 12 | "The Handmaid's Tale" actress who plays Phoebe Spengler in 3-Down/4-Down (2 wds.) |
| 42% | MAYDAY | 6 | Secret resistance group in "The Handmaid's Tale" |
| 42% | CASSETTETAPE | 12 | Frequent player in the 6 Down |
| 42% | ARAB | 4 | ___ League (group of 22 nations in the Mideast and North Africa) |
| 42% | PANEM | 5 | Fictional nation in "The Hunger Games" franchise |
| 41% | COMOROS | 7 | Island nation in the Indian Ocean between Madagascar and Mozambique; capital Moroni |
| 41% | RAPUNZEL | 8 | In the fairy tale she lets down her golden hair |
| 41% | ATWOOD | 6 | The Handmaid's Tale author Margaret |
| 41% | ELISABETH | 9 | Moss who won an Emmy for her role in “The Handmaid’s Tale” |
| 40% | OTFAGBENLE | 10 | "The Handmaid's Tale" actor who plays a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent in 39-Across (2 wds.) |
| 40% | HELLE | 5 | Figure in the tale of Jason and the Argonauts |
| 40% | ACROSS | 6 | The two directions in crosswords : Down and ____ |
| 40% | MARGARETATWOOD | 14 | "The Handmaid's Tale" writer who had a cameo as an Aunt in the Hulu adaptation of her novel (2 wds.) |
| 40% | ELISABETHMOSS | 13 | "The Handmaid's Tale" star who won the 2017 Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series (2 wds.) |
| 40% | DYSTOPIA | 8 | Horrible society such as Gilead in "The Handmaid's Tale" |
| 40% | MOSS | 4 | Elisabeth ___, "The Handmaid's Tale" actress and producer who attended the School of American Ballet |
| 39% | DEMURE | 6 | Like a lot of the attire in "The Handmaid's Tale" |
| 39% | BLACK | 5 | "___ Panther," film series set in the fictional African nation of Wakanda |
| 39% | OTIS | 4 | Inventor in the transportation field who suffered many ups and downs |
| 39% | MAMILLIUS | 9 | Son of Leontes and Hermione in The Winter's Tale |