| 100% | MADMAN | 6 | Gogol's Aksenty Poprishchin, per the title |
| 48% | NICEGUYS | 8 | They "finish last," per the title of Leo Durocher's autobiography |
| 46% | ADVENTURE | 9 | ''. . . Tin Tin'' plot portion, per the title |
| 40% | SALES | 5 | The S in the job title SDR |
| 36% | POOKA | 5 | The title creature in 1950's Harvey |
| 34% | VISITED | 7 | Emulated Santa, per Moore's title |
| 34% | MOOR | 4 | The ___ of Venice (Othello's title) |
| 34% | THANE | 5 | The ___ of Glamis, Macbeth's title |
| 33% | CONMEN | 6 | The title characters of 1988's "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels," e.g. |
| 33% | AMORAL | 6 | Like the title character of Camus’s “The Stranger” |
| 33% | HIDE | 4 | Part of the title of a child's game |
| 33% | ITSME | 5 | Words after the title line of Adele's "Hello" |
| 33% | WABASH | 6 | River in the title of Indiana's state song |
| 33% | COLLETTE | 8 | Toni, the title star in romcom Muriel's Wedding |
| 33% | DEAL | 4 | Start of the title of Howie's game show |
| 33% | XXXXX | 5 | Helper of the title character of Netflix's "Wednesday" |
| 33% | ONATHEME | 8 | Words in the title of a composer's homage |
| 33% | ARK | 3 | Noah's masterpiece as per the Bible |
| 33% | ABEL | 4 | Cain's brother, as per the Bible |
| 33% | ETTU | 4 | Caesar’s dying rebuke, per the Bard |
| 33% | SGT | 3 | Pepper's rank, as per The Beatles? |
| 33% | APR | 3 | The cruelest mo., per T.S. Eliot |
| 33% | APRIL | 5 | The "cruellest" month, per T.S. Eliot |
| 33% | ASUSUAL | 7 | Per the norm |
| 33% | DEADSOULS | 9 | Gogol's book on the owning of serfs by Tchitchikov |
| 32% | MATTDAMON | 9 | He played the title role in 2015's The Martian |
| 32% | GIRAFFES | 8 | Animals who can't dance, per the children's book |
| 32% | SHUT | 4 | Last word in the title of Kubrick's last film |
| 32% | BROWNEYED | 9 | Girl in the title of Van Morrison's 1967 hit |
| 32% | CAR | 3 | What the title character in Stephen King's "Christine" is |