| 100% | MIDST | 5 | Isabel Allende's "In the __ of Winter" |
| 60% | GONZO | 5 | In the style of Hunter S. Thompson, say |
| 60% | SNOW | 4 | Falls in the dead of winter |
| 59% | LEONTES | 7 | Husband of Hermione in William Shakespeare play The Winter's Tale |
| 59% | FLORIZEL | 8 | Son of Polixenes in William Shakespeare play The Winter's Tale |
| 59% | POLIXENES | 9 | King of Bohemia in William Shakespeare play The Winter's Tale |
| 58% | POLIXENES | 9 | King of Bohemia in The Winter's Tale |
| 58% | IAMB | 4 | One of two in The Winter's Tale |
| 58% | JANUARY | 7 | Second month of winter in the Northern Hemisphere |
| 58% | PIZARRO | 7 | Historical figure in Isabel Allende's novel "Inés of My Soul" |
| 57% | PERDITA | 7 | The daughter of Leontes in The Winter's Tale |
| 57% | POLIXENES | 9 | The King of Bohemia in The Winter's Tale |
| 57% | BOITANO | 7 | Orser's rival in the "Battle of the Brians" at the 1988 Winter Olympics |
| 56% | INES | 4 | Isabel Allende's "___ of My Soul" |
| 56% | INES | 4 | Isabel Allende’s “___ of My Soul” |
| 56% | ASLAN | 5 | Lion in The Chronicles of Narnia series by C S Lewis |
| 56% | ASLAN | 5 | Lion in The Chronicles of Narnia heptalogy by C S Lewis |
| 55% | ASLAN | 5 | Lion in the The Chronicles of Narnia heptalogy by C S Lewis |
| 54% | NIP | 3 | It's in the winter air |
| 54% | THELAST | 7 | & 17D 1956 novel in The Chronicles of Narnia series by C S Lewis |
| 54% | XXXXX | 5 | "___ of traitors!" (cry in "The Winter's Tale") |
| 53% | EATEN | 5 | In the pit of one's stomach? |
| 53% | DEES | 4 | What's in the middle of "middle" |
| 53% | LOOP | 4 | In the ___ (aware of what's happening) |
| 53% | VEE | 3 | What's in the middle of Nashville? |
| 53% | CORK | 4 | Port in the S Republic of Ireland at the mouth of the River Lee |
| 53% | MAMILLIUS | 9 | Son of Leontes and Hermione in The Winter's Tale |
| 53% | AUTOLYCUS | 9 | Petty thief in William Shakespeare play The Winter's Tale named after a grandfather of Odysseus in Greek mythology |
| 53% | ELIOT | 5 | T S —, winner of the 1948 Nobel Prize in Literature |