| 100% | THETABARD | 9 | Inn in Southwark, London, mentioned in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 42% | CHAUCER | 7 | Geoffrey —, author of The Canterbury Tales buried in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey |
| 39% | ALE | 3 | Drink mentioned four times in the prologue of "The Canterbury Tales" |
| 38% | REEVE | 5 | Pilgrim in Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales" |
| 37% | INN | 3 | The Tabard in "The Canterbury Tales," e.g. |
| 37% | PARDONER | 8 | He sold fake relics in the Canterbury Tales |
| 37% | MRPLOD | 6 | Policeman in the Noddy tales by Enid Blyton |
| 37% | CHAUCER | 7 | Geoffrey __, author of the Canterbury Tales |
| 37% | CHAUCER | 7 | Geoffrey, writer of The Canterbury Tales |
| 35% | BATH | 4 | The Wife of ___ (title character in one of the stories in The Canterbury Tales) |
| 35% | SUMMONER | 8 | His tale follows the Friar's in "The Canterbury Tales" |
| 33% | WYATTEARP | 9 | Frontiersman mentioned in the classic song "Western Movies" by the Olympics |
| 33% | OGRE | 4 | Beast eaten by the cat in the fairy tale "Puss in Boots" |
| 33% | INNKEEPER | 9 | Harry Bailly, in "The Canterbury Tales" |
| 33% | PLOWMAN | 7 | Agricultural figure in "The Canterbury Tales" |
| 32% | EVESDIARY | 9 | Mark Twain tale narrated in the first person by a noted first woman |
| 32% | MIDDLEENGLISH | 13 | "The Canterbury Tales" language, and what's hiding in the circled letters |
| 32% | REEVE | 5 | Teller of the third tale in "The Canterbury Tales" |
| 32% | REEVE | 5 | Third tale-teller in "The Canterbury Tales" |
| 32% | TABARD | 6 | "The Canterbury Tales" inn |
| 32% | CENOTAPH | 8 | The —, war memorial in Whitehall, London, designed by Edwin Lutyens |
| 32% | WOLF | 4 | Villain in the tale named by the starts of 20-, 32-, 41- and 52-Across |
| 31% | HEROIC | 6 | ___ couplet (poetic form in “The Canterbury Tales”) |
| 31% | NEWT | 4 | Creature mentioned by the witches in "Macbeth" |
| 31% | CARD | 4 | Credit ___, invention that was first mentioned in the sci-fi novel "Looking Backward" by Edward Bellamy |
| 31% | SILVERTASSIE | 12 | The —, stage play by Sean O'Casey premiered in London in 1929 |
| 30% | VIENNAWOODS | 11 | Tales from the —, waltz by Johann Strauss II composed in 1868 |
| 30% | BRER | 4 | & 20D Gullible character in the Uncle Remus folk tales compiled by Joel Chandler Harris |
| 30% | ADELPHI | 7 | 18th-century development in London WC2 by the Adam brothers |