| 100% | URIAH | 5 | First name in a Dickens classic |
| 63% | NOAH | 4 | First name in a dictionary |
| 63% | ANNABEL | 7 | First name in a Poe poem |
| 63% | ROBINSON | 8 | First name in a Defoe book |
| 63% | MOLL | 4 | First name in a Defoe title |
| 62% | MALIA | 5 | First name in a 2010s first family |
| 62% | ICHABOD | 7 | First name in a Washington Irving story |
| 62% | DRED | 4 | First name in a noted 1857 decision |
| 62% | BABA | 4 | First name in a Who song title |
| 61% | AARON | 5 | First name in a Biblical Who's Who |
| 61% | TOM | 3 | First name in a 1973 David Bowie hit |
| 59% | EBENEZER | 8 | Scrooge's first name in A Christmas Carol |
| 57% | ANSEL | 5 | First name in the name of a Yosemite peak |
| 57% | CAROLINA | 8 | State name in a James Taylor classic |
| 56% | GRETA | 5 | A first name in film annals |
| 56% | BRAD | 4 | First name in the Once Upon a Time in ... Hollywood cast |
| 55% | WHO | 3 | First baseman in a classic comedy routine |
| 55% | WHO | 3 | First baseman in a classic comedy bit |
| 55% | WHO | 3 | First baseman in a classic comedy sketch |
| 55% | MARC | 4 | First name that's a verb in reverse |
| 55% | EBENEZER | 8 | First name of Scrooge in A Christmas Carol |
| 55% | WEST | 4 | First word in a U.S. state name |
| 55% | MARCO | 5 | First name shouted in a swimming pool game |
| 54% | TOPEKA | 6 | City in a classic railroad name |
| 54% | TWAS | 4 | First word in a classic poem about 17-Across |
| 54% | WHO | 3 | First baseman in a classic Abbott & Costello comedy sketch |
| 54% | WHO | 3 | First baseman in a classic Abbott and Costello routine |
| 53% | MONA | 4 | First name of the woman in a famously mysterious portrait |
| 53% | REO | 3 | Car company in a classic-rock-band name |
| 52% | DOE | 3 | First word in a classic song from "The Sound of Music" |