| 100% | HARTMAN | 7 | Soap title character of the 1970's |
| 59% | IAN | 3 | Title character of the BBC drama ''Bondmaker'' |
| 59% | ZHIVAGO | 7 | Title character of the 1958 Nobel novel |
| 57% | ERIK | 4 | Title character of "The Phantom of the Opera" |
| 57% | SAURON | 6 | Title character of "The Lord of the Rings" |
| 57% | ROMANS | 6 | Four of the Bard's title characters |
| 56% | PYM | 3 | Title character of the only novel that Edgar Allan Poe wrote |
| 56% | CONMEN | 6 | The title characters of 1988's "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels," e.g. |
| 56% | JAROD | 5 | Title character of TV's "The Pretender" |
| 55% | DIEGO | 5 | Title character of a "Dora the Explorer" spinoff |
| 55% | ARIEL | 5 | Title character of Disney's "The Little Mermaid" |
| 55% | ARLO | 4 | Title character of Pixar's "The Good Dinosaur" |
| 55% | AMORAL | 6 | Like the title character of Camus’s “The Stranger” |
| 54% | CAT | 3 | The title character of the short story “Tobermory,” for one |
| 53% | XXXXX | 5 | Helper of the title character of Netflix's "Wednesday" |
| 53% | BILBO | 5 | Title character of "The Hobbit" |
| 52% | EMMA | 4 | Title character from the village of Highbury, 1815 |
| 51% | LABANIMAL | 9 | The title character of “Flowers for Algernon,” e.g. |
| 51% | ANTONIO | 7 | Title character in Shakespeare play The Merchant of Venice |
| 51% | SWAN | 4 | Title character of “The Ugly Duckling,” actually |
| 51% | ETS | 3 | "Guardians of the Galaxy" title characters, informally |
| 51% | KIRINCARPENTER | 14 | Beer-drinking singer of the 1970's? |
| 51% | ANTONIO | 7 | Title character in William Shakespeare play The Merchant of Venice |
| 51% | SGT | 3 | Rank of the Beatles' title character Pepper: Abbr. |
| 51% | HAN | 3 | First name of the title character in "Solo" |
| 50% | LUC | 3 | Jean-___ (first name of the title character on "Picard") |
| 50% | SARA | 4 | Sister ___, title character of a 1970 film |
| 49% | WILLARNETT | 10 | Voice of the title character on 36-Across: 2 wds. |
| 49% | AMYDORRIT | 9 | Title character of an 1857 novel by Charles Dickens born and raised in the Marshalsea debtors' prison |