| 100% | NABUCCO | 7 | Giuseppe Verdi opera composed in 1841 whose title character is king of Babylon |
| 41% | RIGOLETTO | 9 | 1851 opera by Giuseppe Verdi whose title character is a court jester |
| 35% | VEEP | 4 | Show whose title character likened her job to being “sealed in an abandoned coal mine under two miles of human shit” |
| 34% | TOSCA | 5 | Opera whose title character is a singer |
| 34% | AIDA | 4 | Opera whose title character is a princess |
| 33% | BARETTA | 7 | Nineteen-seventies cop show whose title character was a master of disguise |
| 33% | ERNANI | 6 | Verdi work whose title character is a bandit |
| 33% | AIDA | 4 | Title character of a Verdi opera |
| 32% | EMMA | 4 | 1815 classic whose title character is played by Anya Taylor-Joy in a 2020 film |
| 32% | TOSCA | 5 | Puccini opera whose title character is an opera singer |
| 31% | AUGEAS | 6 | King of Elis in Greek mythology whose stables were cleaned by Heracles |
| 31% | CAR | 3 | What the title character in Stephen King's "Christine" is |
| 31% | POSTMANPAT | 10 | BBC TV children's series whose title character works in the fictional village of Greendale |
| 30% | UNCLEVANYA | 10 | Anton Chekhov play published in 1897 whose title character is Ivan Petrovich Voynitsky |
| 30% | UNCLE | 5 | Anton Chekhov play published in 1897 whose title character is Ivan Petrovich Voynitsky |
| 29% | QUEEN | 5 | ___ of Hearts, "Alice in Wonderland" character whose name is connected to 13a |
| 29% | FRANFINE | 8 | Title character of 15-Across, whose first name is shared by actress Drescher who plays her: 2 wds. |
| 29% | AIDA | 4 | Work whose title character is buried alive |
| 29% | THENANNY | 8 | Sitcom whose title character was Fran Fine |
| 29% | SUPERMARIOBROS | 14 | Nintendo franchise whose title characters are plumbers |
| 29% | CRUELLA | 7 | Disney-reboot title character whose mother is pushed off a cliff by a pack of Dalmatians |
| 29% | ESME | 4 | Saki story whose title character is a hyena |
| 29% | GOSSIPGIRL | 10 | Teen series whose title character is never seen |
| 29% | ELF | 3 | 2003 movie whose title character is named Buddy |
| 29% | WALLE | 5 | Animated film whose title character is a robot |
| 29% | BABE | 4 | 1995 film whose title character is a piglet |
| 29% | ALF | 3 | 1980s sitcom whose title character was an alien |
| 29% | MOMMA | 5 | Comic strip whose title character was Sonya Hobbs |
| 29% | THENANNY | 8 | Nineties sitcom whose title character was Fran Fine |