| 100% | BARB | 4 | Girl who goes missing in Netflix's "Stranger Things" |
| 57% | BARB | 4 | "Stranger Things" character who went missing in season 1 |
| 56% | BARB | 4 | Missing girl in season one of Netflix's "Stranger Things" |
| 51% | ALICE | 5 | Girl who went to Wonderland in Carroll's books |
| 45% | NEMO | 4 | Fish who went missing in the 2003 movie that preceded 18-Across |
| 43% | MEANSTREAK | 10 | 2014 Sandra Brown bestseller about a doctor who goes missing in the mountain wilderness: 2 wds. |
| 39% | OPHELIA | 7 | Girl who drowns in Shakespeare's Hamlet |
| 38% | WOLFHARD | 8 | Finn who plays Mike in Stranger Things |
| 38% | ALICE | 5 | Girl who goes to Wonderland |
| 38% | ALICE | 5 | Girl who went to Wonderland |
| 38% | DOROTHYGALE | 11 | Girl who went to Oz |
| 37% | GRETALEE | 8 | "Girls" actress who plays Maxine in Netflix's "Russian Doll": 2 wds. |
| 36% | LIESL | 5 | Von Trapp girl who's "sixteen going on seventeen" |
| 36% | VERONICA | 8 | Mean girl who's frenemies with Betty in Riverdale |
| 36% | MAYAHAWKE | 9 | "Stranger Things" actress who plays Leonard Bernstein's daughter Jamie in the new biopic "Maestro": 2 wds. |
| 36% | OPHELIA | 7 | Character who went mad in Shakespeare's Hamlet |
| 36% | ALICE | 5 | Girl who went through a looking glass |
| 36% | ALICE | 5 | Girl who went down a rabbit hole |
| 36% | NEMO | 4 | Pixar clownfish who goes missing |
| 36% | IPANEMA | 7 | Whence a girl who's "like a samba," in song |
| 36% | UMA | 3 | Thurman who plays Nancy in Netflix's "Chambers" |
| 36% | EMMAMYERS | 9 | Actress who plays Enid in Netflix's Wednesday |
| 36% | JOYSUNDAY | 9 | Actress who plays Bianca in Netflix's Wednesday |
| 36% | AWOL | 4 | Gone missing, in military lingo: Abbr. |
| 36% | AWOL | 4 | Gone missing, in army vocabulary: Abbr. |
| 36% | AWOL | 4 | Gone missing, in military jargon: Abbr. |
| 35% | ELOISE | 6 | Kid-lit girl who lives in New York's Plaza Hotel |
| 35% | ELLIE | 5 | Teenage girl who's a hero in "The Last of Us" |
| 35% | SALT | 4 | Kitchen staple that's gone missing in the song "Margaritaville" |
| 35% | NIA | 3 | Long whose character goes missing in “Missing” |