| 100% | REDREDROSE | 10 | Simile for "luve" in a classic poem |
| 64% | ONLITTLECATFEET | 15 | Virtually silently, in a classic poem |
| 61% | POPPY | 5 | "Row on row" blower in a classic poem |
| 60% | TWAS | 4 | First word in a classic poem about 17-Across |
| 59% | CASEY | 5 | "Mighty" baseball player who struck out, in a classic poem |
| 59% | TARTS | 5 | What the Knave of Hearts stole, in a classic poem |
| 59% | RAVEN | 5 | One "sitting lonely on the placid bust," in a classic poem |
| 49% | TANGLEDWEB | 10 | Metaphor for lies, in a Walter Scott poem |
| 49% | FAZOOL | 6 | Rhyme for "drool" in a Dean Martin classic |
| 49% | ELEGY | 5 | Literary term for a poem written in serious reflection or lament |
| 49% | ANNABELLEE | 10 | Classic poem that begins "It was many and many a year ago / In a kingdom by the sea" |
| 47% | ROSECUT | 7 | In a classic form of diamond |
| 47% | INFERNO | 7 | First epic poem in a classic trilogy that also includes Purgatorio and Paradiso |
| 47% | ANNA | 4 | Karenina in a classic |
| 46% | SEXES | 5 | Sides in a classic battle |
| 46% | ENERGY | 6 | "E" in a classic equation |
| 46% | ERIE | 4 | Lake in a classic mnemonic |
| 46% | THERANGE | 8 | "Home" in a classic song |
| 46% | ELBA | 4 | Island in a classic palindrome |
| 46% | APEROL | 6 | Ingredient in a classic spritz |
| 46% | AHAB | 4 | Captain in a classic novel |
| 46% | GIN | 3 | Alcohol in a classic martini |
| 46% | SHANE | 5 | Title role for Alan Ladd in a classic 1953 western |
| 46% | YELLOWBRICKROAD | 15 | Something followed in a classic movie |
| 46% | SIXPENCE | 8 | Money in a classic song title |
| 46% | TOPEKA | 6 | City in a classic railroad name |
| 46% | MEECES | 6 | Varmints, in a classic cartoon line |
| 46% | MATE | 4 | Coup in a classic board game |
| 46% | USSR | 4 | Country in a classic Beatles title |
| 46% | BITTERS | 7 | Ingredient in a classic gin martini |