| 100% | CAPULET | 7 | Juliet's family name in Shakespeare's play |
| 66% | MONTAGUE | 8 | Romeo's last name in Shakespeare's play |
| 63% | ROMEO | 5 | Juliet's love, in a Shakespeare play |
| 62% | MONTAGUE | 8 | Romeo's family name in Romeo and Juliet |
| 62% | MONTAGUE | 8 | Romeo's family name in the Shakespeare tale |
| 60% | GERTRUDE | 8 | Name of Hamlet's mother in Shakespeare's play |
| 59% | CAPULET | 7 | Juliet's surname in the Shakespeare play |
| 59% | ROMEO | 5 | Juliet's love in a Shakespeare play |
| 54% | CAPULET | 7 | Juliet's family name |
| 53% | MONTAGUE | 8 | Family name of Romeo in the play |
| 53% | CAPULET | 7 | *Family name in Shakespeare |
| 53% | MONTAGUE | 8 | *Family name in Shakespeare |
| 52% | NEWPLACE | 8 | Name of the Shakespeares' family home in Stratford |
| 52% | SAMSA | 5 | Family name in Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" |
| 51% | ACTS | 4 | Divisions in Shakespeare's plays |
| 51% | TRASK | 5 | Family name in Steinbeck's "East of Eden" |
| 51% | FIE | 3 | Disapproving cry in Shakespeare's play |
| 51% | ROMEO | 5 | 48-Across's partner in a Shakespeare play about lovers from rival families |
| 51% | JULIET | 6 | 45-Across's partner in a Shakespeare play about lovers from rival families |
| 50% | ALOU | 4 | Family name in baseball's only all-brother outfield |
| 50% | CLOTEN | 6 | Cymbeline's stepson in Shakespeare's play |
| 50% | ROMEO | 5 | Juliet's love, in Shakespeare |
| 50% | IAGO | 4 | Attendant of Othello's wife Desdemona in Shakespeare's play |
| 49% | CLAUDIUS | 8 | Murderer of King Hamlet in Shakespeare's play |
| 49% | KATHERINA | 9 | The shrew tamed by Petruchio in Shakespeare's play |
| 49% | KINGJOHN | 8 | Son of Eleanor and Henry in Shakespeare's play |
| 49% | PUN | 3 | One of about 3,000 in Shakespeare's plays |
| 49% | ROARK | 5 | Family name in Frank Miller's "Sin City" series |
| 48% | ROMEO | 5 | Juliet's love in Shakespeare |
| 48% | CAPULET | 7 | Juliet —, female protagonist in William Shakespeare play Romeo and Juliet |