| 100% | SUMMONER | 8 | His tale follows the Friar's in "The Canterbury Tales" |
| 48% | INN | 3 | The Tabard in "The Canterbury Tales," e.g. |
| 48% | PARDONER | 8 | He sold fake relics in the Canterbury Tales |
| 48% | MIDDLEENGLISH | 13 | "The Canterbury Tales" language, and what's hiding in the circled letters |
| 46% | BATH | 4 | The Wife of ___ (title character in one of the stories in The Canterbury Tales) |
| 46% | THETABARD | 9 | Inn in Southwark, London, mentioned in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 45% | REEVE | 5 | Pilgrim in Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales" |
| 44% | PARSON | 6 | His Canterbury Tale was on the Deadly Sins |
| 44% | REEVE | 5 | His is the third of Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" |
| 43% | CHAUCER | 7 | Geoffrey —, author of The Canterbury Tales buried in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey |
| 43% | INNKEEPER | 9 | Harry Bailly, in "The Canterbury Tales" |
| 43% | PLOWMAN | 7 | Agricultural figure in "The Canterbury Tales" |
| 42% | REEVE | 5 | Teller of the third tale in "The Canterbury Tales" |
| 42% | REEVE | 5 | Third tale-teller in "The Canterbury Tales" |
| 41% | ALE | 3 | Drink mentioned four times in the prologue of "The Canterbury Tales" |
| 41% | HEROIC | 6 | ___ couplet (poetic form in “The Canterbury Tales”) |
| 41% | GRETEL | 6 | Hansel's sister in the fairy tale |
| 40% | LEONTES | 7 | The jealous king in Shakespeare's A Winter's Tale |
| 40% | LAURENCE | 8 | The Friar's name in Romeo and Juliet |
| 40% | COBBLEPOT | 9 | The Penguin's surname in the Batman tales |
| 40% | MONTAGUE | 8 | Romeo's family name in the Shakespeare tale |
| 40% | LOIS | 4 | Hi's helpmate, in the comics |
| 40% | LOIS | 4 | Hi's wife, in the funnies |
| 40% | MORSTAN | 7 | Mary __, Dr Watson's wife in the Sherlock tales |
| 40% | PAPA | 4 | Biggest of the three bears, in Goldilocks's tale |
| 39% | LOIS | 4 | Hi Flagston's wife, in the comics |
| 39% | MAMILLIUS | 9 | Son of Leontes and Hermione in The Winter's Tale |
| 39% | PRIORESS | 8 | The Canterbury Tales character |
| 38% | SAE | 3 | Language convention followed for an audience in the U.S.: Abbr. |
| 38% | SERENAJOY | 9 | The Commander's wife in The Handmaid's Tale |