| 100% | HEROD | 5 | King of Judaea from 37-4 BC |
| 55% | CYRUS | 5 | King of Persia from 559-530 BC |
| 50% | CROESUS | 7 | King of Lydia from 560-546 BC noted for his great wealth |
| 47% | DEMETRIUS | 9 | — I, king of Syria from 161-150 BC |
| 44% | CYRUS | 5 | — the Great, King of Persia from 559-530 BC |
| 44% | CYRUS | 5 | - the Great, King of Persia from 559-530 BC |
| 42% | EGBERT | 6 | King of Wessex from 802-839 |
| 42% | STEPHEN | 7 | King of England from 1135-54 |
| 42% | EADRED | 6 | King of England from 946-955 |
| 42% | JOHN | 4 | King of England from 1199-1216 |
| 42% | MACBETH | 7 | King of Scotland from 1040-57 |
| 41% | HEROD | 5 | King of Judea until 4 B.C. |
| 40% | GEORGE | 6 | King of England from 1760 to 1820: __ III |
| 40% | ODYSSEUS | 8 | King of Ithaca, stayed 20 years away from home |
| 40% | GODZILLA | 8 | King of the monsters from Japanese sci-fi films |
| 40% | OSCARI | 6 | King of Norway and Sweden from 1844 to 1859 |
| 40% | TUT | 3 | Egyptian king from the 14th century BC |
| 40% | TUT | 3 | King ___ (pharaoh from the 14th century BC) |
| 39% | CONSTANTINE | 11 | — II, King of the Hellenes from 1964-73 |
| 39% | EAST | 4 | Where the three kings of Orient came from? |
| 38% | OFFA | 4 | King of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia from 757-796 |
| 38% | XERXES | 6 | — I, King of Persia who died in 465 BC |
| 38% | EDWARD | 6 | & 22A King of Anglo-Saxon England from 1042-66 |
| 38% | LEONIDAS | 8 | King of Sparta killed at the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC |
| 37% | HENRYI | 6 | King, died from a surfeit of lampreys |
| 37% | ALPACINO | 8 | Star of 4- and 37-Across |
| 36% | PERICLES | 8 | Ruler of Athens from 460-429 BC |
| 36% | CLEOPATRA | 9 | Queen of Egypt from 51-30 BC |
| 36% | NILE | 4 | View from the Valley of the Kings |