| 100% | ROMEO | 5 | Star-cross'd lover in Shakespeare |
| 80% | ROMEO | 5 | Star-crossed lover in Shakespeare |
| 77% | ROMEO | 5 | Star-crossed lover in a Shakespeare tragedy |
| 62% | ROMEO | 5 | Shakespeare's star-crossed lover |
| 62% | RICK | 4 | Star-crossed lover in ''Casablanca'' |
| 62% | ILSA | 4 | Star-crossed lover in ''Casablanca'' |
| 62% | ROMEO | 5 | Tragic lover in Shakespeare |
| 61% | ROMEO | 5 | Star-crossed lover of Shakespeare |
| 59% | ANTONY | 6 | Lover in a Shakespeare title |
| 58% | THISBE | 6 | Pyramus and ___, star-crossed lovers featured in Ovid's "Metamorphoses" |
| 56% | ANTONY | 6 | Titular lover in a Shakespeare tragedy |
| 54% | ANTONY | 6 | In Shakespeare, the star in "The star is fall'n" |
| 54% | MONTAGUE | 8 | Romeo __, one of Shakespeare's star-crossed lovers |
| 53% | ALEC | 4 | Tess's lover in "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" |
| 52% | CRESSIDA | 8 | Lover of Troilus in a Shakespeare play |
| 52% | ROSE | 4 | Jack and ___, star-crossed lovers portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet in 1997's "Titanic" |
| 51% | HELEN | 5 | Paris and ___, star-crossed lovers from Greek mythology whose romance starts the Trojan War in "The Iliad" |
| 51% | ANGEL | 5 | Buffy and ___, star-crossed lovers portrayed by Sarah Gellar and David Boreanaz in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" |
| 51% | PORTIA | 6 | Lover of Bassanio, in Shakespeare |
| 50% | BIANCA | 6 | Lover of Cassio in William Shakespeare stage play Othello |
| 50% | ALEC | 4 | Lover of Tess in "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" |
| 50% | SUN | 3 | Vitamin D-dispensing star in the sky |
| 50% | ROMEOAND | 8 | With 36-Across, Shakespeare play about star-crossed lovers: 2 wds. |
| 49% | VERONA | 6 | Home to "star-cross'd lovers" |
| 49% | ROMEO | 5 | Star-crossed Shakespearean lover |
| 48% | ROMEOMONTAGUE | 13 | A "star-cross'd lover" of literature |
| 48% | ROMEO | 5 | Star-crossed lover of literature |
| 48% | ROMEO | 5 | Star-crossed lover of fiction |
| 48% | ROMEO | 5 | Star-crossed lover of Juliet |
| 47% | AIPAC | 5 | D.C. lobbying group with a Star of David in its logo |