| 100% | ICEMAN | 6 | Profession in a Eugene O'Neill title |
| 64% | ICEMAN | 6 | Metaphor for death in a Eugene O'Neill play |
| 58% | CEMAN | 5 | Profession in an O'Neill title |
| 54% | PAYCOCK | 7 | Bird in a Sean O'Casey title |
| 52% | ROCKER | 6 | Title profession in a 2008 Rainn Wilson movie |
| 48% | ELMS | 4 | "Desire Under the ___" (Eugene O'Neill play with trees in the title) |
| 48% | FLICKA | 6 | Title horse in a Mary O'Hara children's novel |
| 47% | INTERLUDE | 9 | Eugene O'Neill wrote of a strange one |
| 45% | WELDED | 6 | Eugene O'Neill stage play which opened in New York in 1924 |
| 44% | TYRONES | 7 | Family in a Pulitzer-winning O’Neill play |
| 43% | COMETH | 6 | Verb in an O’Neill title |
| 42% | LONGDAYS | 8 | , 14A & 11D Eugene O'Neill stage play that premiered in Stockholm, Sweden in 1956 |
| 42% | THEMOUNTAINKING | 15 | Scandinavian folklore figure in a Grieg title |
| 42% | SHALALA | 7 | Nonsense syllables in a 1965 song title |
| 42% | EBOLI | 5 | Stopping place in a Carlo Levi title |
| 42% | ERO | 3 | Leandro's partner in a Handel title |
| 42% | GABLE | 5 | One of seven in a Hawthorne title |
| 42% | WINTER | 6 | Cool season mentioned in a Shakespeare title |
| 42% | BERET | 5 | French headwear in a Prince song title |
| 42% | LAY | 3 | Famously wrong word in a Dylan title |
| 42% | OLD | 3 | Like the man in a Hemingway title |
| 42% | MEASURE | 7 | Word appearing twice in a Shakespeare title |
| 42% | DALMATIAN | 9 | Dog breed in a 1961 Disney title |
| 42% | ADANO | 5 | Sicilian town in a 1944 novel title |
| 42% | ABSALOM | 7 | Biblical name repeated in a Faulkner title |
| 42% | BABA | 4 | First name in a Who song title |
| 42% | SNOWS | 5 | Kilimanjaro weather phenomena in a Hemingway title |
| 42% | SALEM | 5 | Massachusetts town in a Stephen King title |
| 42% | IRIS | 4 | Wild flower in a Louise Gluck title |