| 100% | INSP | 4 | Lestrade's rank, in Sherlock Holmes stories: Abbr. |
| 55% | IRENE | 5 | Woman in Sherlock Holmes stories |
| 55% | IRENE | 5 | Adler in Sherlock Holmes stories |
| 55% | IRENE | 5 | ___ Adler (woman in Sherlock Holmes stories) |
| 55% | ADLER | 5 | Irene ___, figure in Sherlock Holmes stories |
| 55% | MORIARTY | 8 | Fictional professor in Sherlock Holmes stories |
| 55% | ULSTERS | 7 | Overcoats worn in Sherlock Holmes stories |
| 54% | WATSON | 6 | Usual narrator in Sherlock Holmes stories: Dr. __ |
| 53% | DOGCART | 7 | Horse-drawn vehicle often mentioned in Sherlock Holmes stories |
| 49% | IRENE | 5 | Adler of the Sherlock Holmes story “A Scandal in Bohemia” |
| 49% | SGT | 3 | Waters' rank in "A Soldier's Story" (Abbr.) |
| 48% | INSPECTOR | 9 | Lestrade of Sherlock Holmes stories, e.g. |
| 46% | IRENEADLER | 10 | Woman in a Sherlock Holmes story |
| 44% | INSP | 4 | Gadget's rank in cartoons: Abbr. |
| 44% | MORIARTY | 8 | Professor James —, arch-enemy of Sherlock Holmes in stories by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 44% | FINAL | 5 | & 16A The —, Sherlock Holmes story by Arthur Conan Doyle first published in the Strand Magazine in December 1893 |
| 44% | ENS | 3 | Pulver's rank in "Mister Roberts": Abbr. |
| 44% | COL | 3 | Kurtz's rank in "Apocalypse Now": Abbr. |
| 43% | ENS | 3 | Junior rank in the U.S. Navy: Abbr. |
| 43% | ENS | 3 | Pulver's rank, in film: Abbr. |
| 43% | OPIUMDEN | 8 | *Setting in Sherlock Holmes's "The Man with the Twisted Lip" |
| 42% | PVT | 3 | Ryan's rank in a Tom Hanks film: Abbr. |
| 42% | BAKERSTREET | 11 | & 1A Group of street urchins who aid Sherlock Holmes in various stories by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 42% | SGT | 3 | Snorkel's rank, in "Beetle Bailey": Abbr. |
| 42% | BEECHES | 7 | Sherlock Holmes story "The Copper ___" |
| 42% | COCAINE | 7 | The solution referred to in Sherlock Holmes's "seven-per-cent solution" |
| 41% | ENOLA | 5 | Sherlock Holmes's younger sister in a series of YA novels |
| 41% | SGT | 3 | Pepper's rank, in a Beatles album title: Abbr. |
| 41% | IRENE | 5 | Adler of Sherlock Holmes stories |
| 41% | IRENE | 5 | ___ Adler from Sherlock Holmes stories |