| 100% | SKALD | 5 | One of a number of travelling Scandinavian poets of the Viking and Middle Ages |
| 41% | SIBYL | 5 | One of a number of prophetesses in ancient Greece and Rome such as that of Cumae, who guided Aeneas through the underworld |
| 38% | YEARLING | 8 | Term for a horse between the ages of one and two |
| 38% | DANTE | 5 | Poet of the Middle Ages |
| 37% | VIKINGS | 7 | Scandinavian invaders of the Middle Ages |
| 37% | FROST | 5 | "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by" poet |
| 37% | ELDAD | 5 | One of a pair of prophets mentioned in the Book of Numbers |
| 36% | QUASAR | 6 | One of a number of astronomical bodies thought to be the most luminous objects in the universe |
| 36% | KIRTLE | 6 | A loose gown worn by women of the Middle Ages |
| 36% | ALADDIN | 7 | One of the stories of A Thousand And One Nights |
| 35% | EWOK | 4 | One of a number of small creatures who live on the moon of Endor in the Star Wars film series |
| 35% | EWOK | 4 | One of a number of small creatures in the Star Wars film series who live on the moon of Endor |
| 35% | REF | 3 | One in the middle of a fight |
| 35% | TROLL | 5 | One of a class of supernatural creatures in Scandinavian folklore that dwell in caves and mountains |
| 35% | MEDIAN | 6 | The middle number in a sequence of numbers |
| 35% | ALAN | 4 | One of the "Two and a Half Men" |
| 34% | ISOTONE | 7 | One of a group of atoms having the same number of neutrons but a different number of protons |
| 34% | ALAN | 4 | One of the men on "Two and a Half Men" |
| 34% | CYCLOPS | 7 | One of a race of giants in classical mythology with a single eye in the middle of the forehead |
| 34% | PH/FONETICALLY | 14 | Middle of the quip ... and a hint to eight squares in this puzzle |
| 34% | MEAL | 4 | One of the "hots" in the military slang "three hots and a cot" |
| 34% | CARE | 4 | The middle initial of A.C.A. and I.C.U. |
| 34% | AIMECESAIRE | 11 | Poet and intellectual who was a founder of the Négritude movement |
| 34% | GNOME | 5 | One of a species of legendary creatures said to live in the depths of the earth and guard buried treasure |
| 33% | TORTOISE | 8 | Shelled reptile and winner of a fabled race that is one of the slowest animals in the world |
| 33% | WIMPLE | 6 | Women's head and neck covering of the Middle Ages |
| 33% | ERE | 3 | Short palindrome in the middle of a famous longer one |
| 33% | FALL | 4 | "The ___ of Gondolin," one of the original Lost Tales by J.R.R. Tolkien which is about a secret city of elves in the First Age of Middle-earth |
| 33% | TEEN | 4 | One between the ages of 13 and 19 |
| 33% | THREE | 5 | Number of children that 12-Across and 38-Across have (Chris is the middle child) |