| 100% | ANAGRAM | 7 | Horrid glances from Charles Grodin? |
| 35% | BEETHOVEN | 9 | 1992 Charles Grodin doggie flick |
| 35% | HEARTBREAK | 10 | 1972 Charles Grodin film, with "The" |
| 33% | OPEDS | 5 | Columns from Charles Blow and Gail Collins |
| 33% | LECLERC | 7 | Charles, F1 driver from Monaco |
| 32% | ONCEOVER | 8 | A quick glance from top to bottom: Hyph. |
| 32% | CLARKE | 6 | Charles —, Home Secretary from 2004-06 |
| 32% | GREY | 4 | Charles —, prime minister from 1830-34 |
| 32% | BEETHOVEN | 9 | 1992 family film starring Charles Grodin and Bonnie Hunt |
| 32% | MARTEL | 6 | Charles __, Frankish ruler from 718 to 741 |
| 31% | MIDNIGHTRUN | 11 | 1988 film comedy starring Robert De Niro and Charles Grodin |
| 31% | DAWES | 5 | Charles G —, US vice president from 1925-29 |
| 30% | SUNBURN | 7 | 1979 comedy-crime film starring Farrah Fawcett-Majors and Charles Grodin |
| 30% | XANADU | 6 | Charles Kane's estate from the Welles 1941 movie |
| 30% | DARNAY | 6 | Charles ___, fictional character from "A Tale of Two Cities" |
| 30% | PHOENIXSUN | 10 | Hoopster Charles Barkley, from 1992 to 1996 |
| 30% | EAST | 4 | Direction from Lake Charles to Baton Rouge |
| 27% | NORA | 4 | Nick and ___ Charles, fictional couple from "The Thin Man" series |
| 26% | BEN | 3 | Grizzly bear from Charles E. Sellier Jr.'s "The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams" |
| 26% | PEANUTS | 7 | Beloved comic strip written by Charles Schulz from 1950 to 2000 |
| 26% | PEANUTS | 7 | Strip cartoon by Charles M Schulz that ran from 1950-2000 |
| 26% | TOOLONGDIDNTREAD | 16 | Response from someone who merely glanced at an online post, maybe |
| 25% | MOUNTAINCOLD | 12 | Charles Frazier novel about a sickness one suffers from hiking up Everest or Kilimanjaro? |
| 25% | OLIVER | 6 | "___ Twist Manifesto," album by Luke Haines based on a famous literary character from Charles Dickens's works |
| 24% | RUN | 3 | "Midnight ___" (Robert De Niro/Charles Grodin caper) |
| 23% | KROOK | 5 | Character in the Charles Dickens novel Bleak House who dies from spontaneous human combustion |
| 23% | CATHERINEOF | 11 | & 13D Wife of Charles II of England, France, Scotland and Ireland from 1662-85 |
| 22% | ROLLO | 5 | Viking leader who received the district that formed the basis of the duchy of Normandy from Charles III of France |