| 100% | BOVARY | 6 | Madame __, a tale of adultery by Flaubert |
| 56% | SCARLET | 7 | __ Letter, tale of adultery by Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| 51% | DRED | 4 | "___: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp," novel by Harriet Stowe |
| 50% | SUTRA | 5 | "Kama ___: A Tale of Love" (1996 film directed by Mira Nair) |
| 49% | DUST | 4 | "___: A Tale of the Wired West," single-player video game published by GTE Entertainment |
| 49% | RUDGE | 5 | "Barnaby ___: A Tale of the Riots of Eighty," historical novel by Charles Dickens |
| 46% | IDIOT | 5 | "It is a tale told by an ___, full of sound and fury": Shak. |
| 45% | ALIBABA | 7 | Hero of a tale told by Scheherazade |
| 44% | SAN | 3 | "Fake Tales of ___ Francisco," song by the Arctic Monkeys that refers to a Californian city |
| 44% | LOVESTORY | 9 | A tale of romance |
| 43% | LUCIE | 5 | A Tale of Two Cities heroine |
| 42% | THEJUNGLEBOOK | 13 | 1894 collection of tales featuring Mowgli, a boy raised by wolves: 3 wds. |
| 41% | TWOCITIES | 9 | A Tale of __, 2009 installment in Underbelly show |
| 41% | DRED | 4 | "___: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp" |
| 41% | HUR | 3 | "Ben-___: A Tale of the Christ" |
| 41% | AENEID | 6 | Tale of a journey |
| 41% | BAMBI | 5 | Tale of a whitetail |
| 41% | TWOCITIES | 9 | Charles Dickens wrote a Tale of them |
| 41% | DICKENS | 7 | He wrote A Tale of Two Cities |
| 40% | IDIOT | 5 | “It is a tale / Told by an ___, full of sound and fury, / Signifying nothing”: “Macbeth” |
| 40% | LORDOFTHEFLIES | 14 | Tale of a butchered Piggy |
| 40% | TRUCESTORY | 10 | Tale of a cease-fire? |
| 40% | THELOUSETHATROARED | 18 | Tale of a tiny bellower? |
| 40% | DANTESINFERNO | 13 | Tale of a hellish trip |
| 40% | LORDOFTHEFLIES | 14 | Tale of a Piggy's plight |
| 40% | ODYSSEY | 7 | Tale of a trip to Ithaca |
| 39% | NOSTROMO | 8 | 1904 novel by Joseph Conrad subtitled A Tale of the Seaboard |
| 39% | BENHUR | 6 | 1880 novel by Lew Wallace subtitled A Tale of the Christ |
| 39% | JEMIMA | 6 | __ Puddle-Duck, a tale of a bonneted egg-layer |
| 39% | HUR | 3 | Lew Wallace's "Ben-___: A Tale of the Christ" |