| 100% | GAIUS | 5 | Given name of Augustus and Caligula |
| 85% | GAIUS | 5 | Given name of Caligula and Augustus |
| 56% | ANNE | 4 | Given name of Henry VIII's second and fourth wives |
| 53% | WOODROW | 7 | Given name of actor Harrelson (or what's formed by 29-, 32- and 34-Across) |
| 51% | AGRIPPINA | 9 | Name shared by the mothers of Caligula and Nero |
| 47% | ERNESTO | 7 | Given name of Che Guevara |
| 47% | AGNES | 5 | Given name of mother teresa |
| 46% | EDWINA | 6 | Given name of the first Countess Mountbatten |
| 46% | SPORADES | 8 | Name given to two groups of Greek islands in the Aegean Sea; the Northern — and Southern — |
| 44% | TITLES | 6 | Names of books and movies |
| 44% | LINNAEUS | 8 | Namer of flora and fauna |
| 43% | MTSINAI | 7 | Name of many hospitals and cemeteries |
| 43% | IVAN | 4 | Name of "Great" and "Terrible" tsars |
| 43% | ROARING | 7 | & 6D Name given to the stormy areas of ocean between latitudes 40º and 50º in the Southern Hemisphere |
| 43% | AXIS | 4 | The —, name given to the alliance of Nazi Germany, Italy and Japan formalised by the 1940 Tripartite Pact |
| 42% | MARXISM | 7 | Name given to the economic and political theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels |
| 42% | OHIO | 4 | Name of a state and a river |
| 42% | SOHO | 4 | Name of neighborhoods in Manhattan and London |
| 42% | LOUISA | 6 | Namer of Amy, Beth, Meg and Jo |
| 42% | CHAKA | 5 | Given name adopted by the ''Queen of Funk'' |
| 42% | ERIC | 4 | Name of kings in Denmark, Norway and Sweden |
| 42% | PETROGRAD | 9 | Name of St Petersburg between 1914 and 1924 |
| 42% | SOUFRIERE | 9 | Name of volcanoes on Montserrat and St Vincent |
| 42% | OSSA | 4 | Name of a mountain in Greece and Canada |
| 42% | ELSA | 4 | Name of characters in "Jojo Rabbit" and "Frozen" |
| 41% | ADAM | 4 | He "gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air" |
| 41% | ALEXIS | 6 | Name of Serena Williams's first-born and husband |
| 41% | SHILOH | 6 | Name of Angelina and Brad's first biological child |
| 41% | BROOKLYN | 8 | Name of David and Victoria Beckham's eldest son |
| 41% | LEO | 3 | Name of five Armenian kings between 1198 and 1375 |