| 100% | GRENDEL | 7 | Man-eating monster defeated by Beowulf in Old English legend |
| 44% | GRENDEL | 7 | Monster defeated by Beowulf |
| 35% | OGRE | 4 | Man-eating monster, in folklore |
| 34% | EDH | 3 | Old English letter that disappeared by 1300 but which is still used in Icelandic |
| 33% | WHOKILLED | 9 | With 59-Across, old English nursery rhyme being investigated by the detectives in this puzzle |
| 32% | ERE | 3 | Before in Old English |
| 32% | THINE | 5 | Yours, in old English |
| 31% | YON | 3 | Over there, in old English |
| 31% | ART | 3 | 1-Across, in Old English |
| 31% | EARTH | 5 | "Dinosaurs eat Man. Woman inherits the ___," iconic dialogue by Ellie Sattler in "Jurassic Park" |
| 31% | PANTALOON | 9 | English name of a Venetian character in Italian commedia dell'arte represented as a foolish old man |
| 31% | GRENDEL | 7 | Monster slain by Beowulf |
| 30% | MARLIN | 6 | Fish caught by Santiago in "The Old Man and the Sea" |
| 30% | GRENDEL | 7 | Monster played by Crispin Glover in the movie "Beowulf" |
| 30% | ETHS | 4 | Letters used in Old English and Icelandic |
| 30% | WEN | 3 | Old English rune, replaced by w |
| 29% | ADLAI | 5 | ___ Stevenson (man defeated in two presidential elections by Eisenhower) |
| 29% | ERE | 3 | Word used to refer to time in old english |
| 29% | BEOWULF | 7 | Epic poem in Old English about a Geatish hero |
| 29% | TKOD | 4 | Defeated by decision in boxing, for short |
| 29% | WCS | 3 | Lavatories, in old-fashioned English |
| 29% | GRENDEL | 7 | Monstrous creature slain by Beowulf in the Anglo-Saxon epic |
| 29% | BEOWULF | 7 | Old English epic poem with the monster Grendel |
| 29% | BEOWULF | 7 | Old English epic poem featuring the monster Grendel |
| 29% | BEOWULF | 7 | Old English epic poem translated by Seamus Heaney |
| 28% | YETI | 4 | Monster in Himalayan legend |
| 28% | ALTE | 4 | Old man, in Mannheim |
| 28% | ALTE | 4 | Old man, in German |
| 28% | BLACKSABBATH | 12 | English rock band formed in 1968 and led by Ozzy Osbourne, who gave us hits like "Paranoid" and "Iron Man": 2 wds. |
| 28% | BEOWULF | 7 | Old English epic poem with a monster named Grendel |