| 100% | SAMSA | 5 | Literary character who transforms into an insect |
| 73% | SAMSA | 5 | Literary character who's transformed into an Ungeziefer |
| 52% | ABU | 3 | "Aladdin" character who's transformed into an elephant |
| 39% | EEYORE | 6 | Literary character who lives in the Gloomy Place |
| 39% | AHAB | 4 | Literary character who cries "I am madness maddened!" |
| 38% | ZORRO | 5 | Literary character who debuted in "The Curse of Capistrano" |
| 38% | IAGO | 4 | Literary character who says "Cassio's a proper man" |
| 38% | SAILORMOON | 10 | Manga series that debuted in 1992 featuring 18-Across, 25-Across, 34-Across, and schoolgirl Usagi Tsukino who transforms into the title character (2 wds.) |
| 38% | IAGO | 4 | Literary character who says "O, beware, my lord, of jealousy" |
| 38% | SAMSA | 5 | Gregor ___, Kafka character who transforms in "The Metamorphosis" |
| 38% | JAFAR | 5 | "Aladdin" villain who transforms into a giant cobra |
| 37% | MERLIN | 6 | Literary character fathered by an incubus |
| 37% | MRTOAD | 6 | Literary character who's "always good-tempered" and "not very clever" |
| 37% | AHAB | 4 | Literary character who says "I'll chase him round Good Hope" |
| 36% | IAGO | 4 | Literary character who says "I will wear my heart upon my sleeve" |
| 36% | FAUST | 5 | Classic literary character who makes a deal with the devil |
| 36% | AHAB | 4 | Literary character on whom Captain Hook is based |
| 36% | NOAH | 4 | Biblical character who built an ark |
| 36% | SAMIAM | 6 | Literary character who's told, "I do not like green eggs and ham" |
| 36% | EYRE | 4 | Literary character who says, "I am no bird; and no net ensnares me" |
| 36% | ALICE | 5 | Title literary character who exclaims "How puzzling all these changes are!" |
| 36% | PETER | 5 | ___ Pan, mischievous literary character who can fly and never grows up |
| 36% | SILLY | 5 | ___ Sally, adventurous literary character who walks backward and wears mismatched socks |
| 35% | LONGJOHNS | 9 | Literary character with an eponymous chain of seafood restaurants |
| 35% | EMMA | 4 | Literary character on whom Cher from Clueless is based |
| 35% | ELSA | 4 | Disney character who wears an ice gown |
| 35% | NED | 3 | "South Park" character who uses an electrolarynx |
| 35% | FRED | 4 | "Scooby-Doo" character who wears an ascot |
| 35% | EYRE | 4 | Literary character who says "Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt!" |
| 35% | EYRE | 4 | Literary character who inspired the title of the 2016 anthology “Reader, I Married Him” |