| 100% | NEWMAN | 6 | Jerry's archnemesis and neighbor played by Wayne Knight who is a recurring character on "Seinfeld" |
| 56% | LEO | 3 | Uncle ___, Jerry's relative played by Len Lesser who is a recurring character on "Seinfeld" |
| 45% | GEORGECOSTANZA | 14 | Character who is Jerry's best friend since high school and is played by Jason Alexander on the show "Seinfeld": 2 wds. |
| 45% | COSMOKRAMER | 11 | Character played by Michael Richards in "Seinfeld", who is 32-Across's neighbor and is often called a "hipster doofus": 2 wds. |
| 42% | GARY | 4 | Character on "Cheers" who owned a rival bar and was played interchangeably by Joel Polis and Robert Desiderio |
| 41% | MORTY | 5 | ___ Seinfeld, Jerry's dad on "Seinfeld" who was played by both Phil Bruns and Barney Martin |
| 37% | MORTY | 5 | ___ Seinfeld, Jerry's father who was played by two different actors on "Seinfeld" |
| 37% | ALFIESOLOMONS | 13 | "Peaky Blinders" character, played by Tom Hardy, who ran a distillery and was seen on the show from season 2 till 4: 2 wds. |
| 33% | JERRYSEINFELD | 13 | The lead character from "Seinfeld", who is a semi-fictional version of the actor who plays the role and goes by the same name: 2 wds. |
| 32% | DWIGHTSCHRUTE | 13 | A character from "The Office" played by Rainn Wilson, who is the nemesis and eventual friend of 42a: 2 wds |
| 32% | DIANE | 5 | ___ Chambers, character on the TV show "Cheers" who was played by Shelley Long |
| 32% | SAM | 3 | ___ Malone, character on the TV show "Cheers" who was played by Ted Danson |
| 32% | DALE | 4 | Character who was played by Jeffrey DeMunn on "The Walking Dead" |
| 32% | HANNIBAL | 8 | Horror thriller TV series named after the protagonist who is a forensic psychiatrist and cannibal played by Mads Mikkelsen |
| 31% | IRIS | 4 | Novelist Murdoch who was played by Kate Winslet and Judi Dench in a 2001 biopic |
| 31% | BUSSYDAMBOIS | 12 | Jacobean stage play by George Chapman whose title character is based on a 16th-century French nobleman |
| 31% | HOOD | 4 | Robin ___, "Once Upon a Time" character who was played by both Tom Ellis and Sean Maguire |
| 31% | ABBI | 4 | Comedian Jacobson who plays a character by the same name on "Broad City" |
| 31% | LAERTES | 7 | Character in "Hamlet" who is struck by a poison-tipped sword (we did say the play's a tragedy) |
| 30% | OYL | 3 | Olive, who was once engaged to "lounge lizard" Harold Hamgravy, a character played by Bill Irwin in a 1980 movie |
| 30% | CHAR | 4 | Actor who played a character with the same first name on "Two and a Half Men" |
| 30% | ALDA | 4 | Actor whose original name was D'Abruzzo and who went on to play a noted Captain |
| 30% | UHURA | 5 | "Star Trek" character who's been played by Nichelle Nichols and Zoe Saldana |
| 30% | ETHEL | 5 | Muggs who was played by Shannon Purser on The CW's "Riverdale" |
| 29% | DELLA | 5 | With 37-Across, "Touched by an Angel" actress who played a landlady on "Chico and the Man" |
| 29% | FREDANDREWS | 11 | A "Riverdale" character who is the father of 31a, played by actor Luke Perry: 2 wds |
| 29% | COURTENEYCOX | 12 | Actress who played a woman pretending to be Jerry's wife for a dry-cleaning discount on "Seinfeld," but is better known as Monica on "Friends" (2 wds.) |
| 29% | MCKELLEN | 8 | Theater knight who was Gandalf and Magneto on film |
| 29% | JESSEPINKMAN | 12 | Character played by Aaron Paul in "Breaking Bad", who was a crystal meth dealer and worked with the character played by 30-Across: 2 wds. |
| 29% | ALAN | 4 | ___ Harper, character played by Jon Cryer on "Two and a Half Men" |