| 100% | TRELAWNEY | 9 | Squire —, character in 1883 RL Stevenson novel Treasure Island |
| 62% | ISRAEL | 6 | Character who provides the title of Chapter 26 of 1883 RL Stevenson novel Treasure Island |
| 49% | GUNN | 4 | Ben —, marooned pirate in 1883 R L Stevenson novel Treasure Island |
| 49% | LIVESEY | 7 | Dr David —, magistrate in 1883 Robert Louis Stevenson novel Treasure Island |
| 44% | GUNN | 4 | Ben —, marooned pirate in R L Stevenson novel Treasure Island |
| 40% | BILLY | 5 | & 17D Retired seaman who dies of a heart attack in 1883 Robert Louis Stevenson novel Treasure Island |
| 39% | GUNN | 4 | Ben —, marooned pirate in the R L Stevenson novel Treasure Island |
| 38% | BONES | 5 | Billy —, retired seaman who dies of a heart attack in 1883 Robert Louis Stevenson novel Treasure Island |
| 37% | CAPTAIN | 7 | & 22A Pirate after whom Long John Silver's parrot is named in 1883 Robert Louis Stevenson novel Treasure Island |
| 36% | SILVER | 6 | Character in "Treasure Island": Long John __ |
| 32% | LETTERS | 7 | Characters in every novel |
| 31% | HEROES | 6 | Main characters in novels |
| 31% | ITO | 3 | Character in a famous erotic French novel |
| 30% | KARENINA | 8 | Title character in Tolstoy novel, Anna |
| 30% | NEMO | 4 | Main character in a Verne novel |
| 30% | ARCS | 4 | Paths followed by characters in novels |
| 29% | GAY | 3 | Like the main characters in "Fire Island" |
| 29% | FLAGG | 5 | Randall ___, recurring character in Stephen King novels |
| 29% | ELIOT | 5 | ___ Rosewater, recurring character in Kurt Vonnegut novels |
| 29% | ATTY | 4 | Many a character in John Grisham novels (Abbr.) |
| 28% | KIMBALLOHARA | 12 | Central character in 1901 novel Kim by Rudyard Kipling |
| 28% | TEENAGER | 8 | Many a character in the "Sweet Valley High" novels |
| 28% | RIDD | 4 | John —, character in 1869 R D Blackmore novel Lorna Doone |
| 27% | IGOR | 4 | Character in "Frankenstein" films who doesn't appear in the Mary Shelley novel |
| 27% | BECKY | 5 | & 18D Central character in 1840s W M Thackeray novel Vanity Fair |
| 27% | EPILEPSY | 8 | Disorder from which Dostoyevsky and many characters in his novels suffered |