| 100% | OEDIPUS | 7 | Rex in the classics |
| 66% | WELLREAD | 8 | Versed in the classics, say |
| 64% | RED | 3 | Like pants in the classic Nantucket style |
| 62% | DUST | 4 | "___ in the Wind" (Kansas classic) |
| 62% | OGRE | 4 | Fiendish figure in the classic story "Puss in Boots" |
| 61% | IBEAM | 5 | Seat in the classic photograph "Lunch Atop a Skyscraper" |
| 61% | ATE | 3 | What 7 did to 9 in the classic joke |
| 61% | PHONOGRAPH | 10 | Object in the classic painting "His Master's Voice" |
| 61% | IMACOP | 6 | Joe Friday's declaration in the classic "Dragnet" intro |
| 61% | ALLSTAR | 7 | Player in the "Midsummer Classic" |
| 61% | TOKEN | 5 | Penguin or T. rex in the modern version of Monopoly |
| 59% | ROME | 4 | Italian city in the classic film "Three Coins in a Fountain" |
| 59% | WYATTEARP | 9 | Frontiersman mentioned in the classic song "Western Movies" by the Olympics |
| 59% | DEPUTY | 6 | Barney Fife's job in the Classic TV sitcom, Mayberry RFD |
| 58% | SAW | 3 | *Tool used by a magician in the classic "cut in half" illusion |
| 58% | LISA | 4 | Unfaithful fiancée in the cult classic “The Room” |
| 58% | CAT | 3 | "The ___ in the Hat" (Dr. Seuss classic) |
| 57% | HUMANS | 6 | Big-game hunting targets in the classic short story "The Most Dangerous Game" |
| 57% | HAT | 3 | "The Cat in the ___" (Dr. Seuss classic) |
| 56% | OHMYDARLING | 11 | Repeated phrase in the chorus of a classic folk ballad |
| 56% | EVEARDEN | 8 | Classic actress who played the principal in "Grease" |
| 56% | SPAGHETTI | 9 | Classic Italian dish in Lady and the Tramp |
| 55% | ROPE | 4 | Classic strategy in the boxing ring |
| 55% | SPEX | 4 | X-ray ___ (glasses advertised in the back of classic comic books) |
| 55% | PARIS | 5 | City that "is burning," in the title of a classic documentary |
| 54% | GABLED | 6 | Like the house in a Hawthorne classic |
| 54% | STARMAN | 7 | He's "waiting in the sky" in a classic David Bowie song |
| 53% | PRETTY | 6 | Like the woman in a Roy Orbison classic |
| 53% | SOMEPIG | 7 | Inaugural post on the web, in classic literature? |
| 53% | DARCY | 5 | Character whose first name, Fitzwilliam, is used only twice in the classic novel in which he appears |