| 100% | WEEKLY | 6 | Like the installments of "A Tale of Two Cities" |
| 81% | BEHEADED | 8 | Like Sydney Carton at the end of "A Tale of Two Cities" |
| 77% | MANETTE | 7 | The doctor in A Tale of Two Cities: Alexandre __ |
| 66% | WAS | 3 | Word seen 11 times in the opening line of "A Tale of Two Cities" |
| 65% | LUCIE | 5 | A Tale of Two Cities heroine |
| 63% | DICKENS | 7 | He wrote A Tale of Two Cities |
| 60% | SUBURBAN | 8 | Like an area on the outskirts of a city |
| 60% | SYDNEYCARTON | 12 | London barrister in 1859 Charles Dickens novel A Tale of Two Cities |
| 59% | MADAME | 6 | ___ Defarge of "A Tale of Two Cities" |
| 58% | ITWAS | 5 | Opening words of "A Tale of Two Cities" |
| 58% | DARNAY | 6 | Charles ___, hero of "A Tale of Two Cities" |
| 58% | WAS | 3 | Second word of "A Tale of Two Cities" |
| 58% | ITWAS | 5 | First words of "A Tale of Two Cities" |
| 58% | BASTILLE | 8 | Setting for part of "A Tale of Two Cities" |
| 58% | PARIS | 5 | "A Tale of Two Cities" city |
| 58% | GUILLOTINE | 10 | "A Tale of Two Cities" ender? |
| 58% | LUCIE | 5 | "A Tale of Two Cities" heroine |
| 57% | WAS | 3 | Second word of ''A Tale of Two Cities'' |
| 57% | SLAIN | 5 | Like the dragon at the end of a hero's tale |
| 56% | DEFARGE | 7 | Villainous knitter in “A Tale of Two Cities” |
| 56% | LUCIE | 5 | ___ Manette, woman in "A Tale of Two Cities" |
| 55% | DARN | 4 | Carton's counterpart in "A Tale of Two Cities" |
| 55% | DARNAY | 6 | Charles ___, fictional character from "A Tale of Two Cities" |
| 54% | WINTER | 6 | "It was the spring of hope, it was the ___ of despair" (A Tale of Two Cities line) |
| 54% | BLACK | 5 | & 12D The —, Robert Louis Stevenson novel subtitled A Tale of the Two Roses |
| 54% | ITWASTHEBEST | 12 | With 36 and 57 Across, ''A Tale of Two Cities'' beginning |
| 54% | DEMURE | 6 | Like a lot of the attire in "The Handmaid's Tale" |
| 53% | ELDEST | 6 | Like the firstborn of a group of siblings |
| 52% | LEGENDARY | 9 | Like the stuff of epic tales |
| 52% | CALM | 4 | Like the eye of a storm |