| 100% | JONAH | 5 | Man with a whale of a tale? |
| 65% | AHAB | 4 | Captain in a whale of a tale? |
| 64% | SAGA | 4 | Whale of a tale |
| 63% | JONAH | 5 | One with a whale of a story? |
| 60% | KIRKDOUGLAS | 11 | "A Whale of a Tale" singer in a 1954 movie |
| 56% | ROBIN | 5 | Hood with a band of Merry Men |
| 56% | CENTAUR | 7 | Horse creature with the torso of a man |
| 55% | BALEEN | 6 | Whale with a filter instead of teeth |
| 54% | THESOUNDANDTHEFUR | 17 | Tale of a frightening encounter with a lion? |
| 54% | MLK | 3 | Initials of the man with a January holiday in the US |
| 53% | HUMPBACK | 8 | A species of baleen whales with long pectoral fins |
| 53% | THE | 3 | With 56-Across, last words of a fairy tale |
| 53% | THE | 3 | With 60-Across, last words of a fairy tale |
| 53% | NARWHAL | 7 | Type of whale with a long tusk |
| 53% | AMAID | 5 | "... the way of a man with ___": Proverbs |
| 53% | AMAID | 5 | "The way of a man with _____": Proverbs |
| 53% | DAYOFTHELOCUST | 14 | 1939 tale of a tarnished Tinseltown, with "The" |
| 52% | LEGEND | 6 | Folklore tale, or word that starts with the name of a walking limb |
| 52% | NBA | 3 | Org. with a Sixth Man of the Year Award |
| 52% | ELON | 4 | First name of a man associated with Tesla, SpaceX |
| 51% | RETELL | 6 | Share a new version of, as with a fairy tale |
| 51% | CLAYAIKEN | 9 | Singer with the double-platinum album "Measure of a Man" |
| 51% | PERFUME | 7 | Patrick Suskind's narrative of a man with no scent |
| 51% | MEL | 3 | With 6-Across, a man of many voices |
| 51% | THOTH | 5 | Egyptian deity depicted as a man with the head of an ibis or a baboon |
| 51% | GRIMM | 5 | Jacob —, German philologist who with brother Wilhelm is noted for a collection of fairy tales |
| 50% | NBA | 3 | Sports league with a Sixth Man of the Year Award: Abbr. |
| 50% | NOEL | 4 | Oasis member who once described his brother (and bandmate) as "a man with a fork in a world of soup" |
| 50% | MINOTAUR | 8 | Monster in Greek mythology with the head of a bull and the body of a man |
| 50% | ACRE | 4 | Traditionally, amount of land plowable by one man in one day with a team of oxen |