| 100% | DRED | 4 | Stowe's novel "___: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp" |
| 94% | DRED | 4 | "___: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp," novel by Harriet Stowe |
| 83% | DRED | 4 | 1856 novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe subtitled A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp |
| 80% | DRED | 4 | Harriet Beecher Stowe novel subtitled "A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp" |
| 78% | DRED | 4 | "___: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp" |
| 49% | RUDGE | 5 | "Barnaby ___: A Tale of the Riots of Eighty," historical novel by Charles Dickens |
| 45% | HUR | 3 | Lew Wallace's "Ben-___: A Tale of the Christ" |
| 43% | GATSBY | 6 | The Great __, DiCaprio's remake of a classic |
| 43% | HUR | 3 | "Ben-___: A Tale of the Christ" |
| 43% | MARGARETATWOOD | 14 | "The Handmaid's Tale" writer who had a cameo as an Aunt in the Hulu adaptation of her novel (2 wds.) |
| 42% | NOSTROMO | 8 | 1904 novel by Joseph Conrad subtitled A Tale of the Seaboard |
| 42% | BENHUR | 6 | 1880 novel by Lew Wallace subtitled A Tale of the Christ |
| 42% | NATE | 4 | ___ the Great (detective in a series of children's books) |
| 42% | LEW | 3 | "Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ" novelist Wallace |
| 42% | HUR | 3 | "Ben-___: A Tale of the Christ" (Lew Wallace classic) |
| 42% | HUR | 3 | "Ben-___: A Tale of the Christ," Lew Wallace classic |
| 41% | SVEVO | 5 | Italo —, author of the novels A Life and Zeno's Conscience |
| 40% | MARKTWAIN | 9 | Wrote one of the Great American Novels |
| 40% | SYDNEYCARTON | 12 | London barrister in 1859 Charles Dickens novel A Tale of Two Cities |
| 40% | DUST | 4 | "___: A Tale of the Wired West," single-player video game published by GTE Entertainment |
| 39% | DEMURE | 6 | Like a lot of the attire in "The Handmaid's Tale" |
| 39% | ALCHEMIST | 9 | Paulo Coelho's tale of a shepherd boy, The __ |
| 39% | GATSBY | 6 | The Great __, 2013 DiCaprio film of 1925 novel |
| 39% | BAZ | 3 | ___ Luhrmann, director of the 2013 adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel "The Great Gatsby" |
| 38% | SPY | 3 | The —, 1821 James Fenimore Cooper novel subtitled A Tale of the Neutral Ground |
| 38% | SLAIN | 5 | Like the dragon at the end of a hero's tale |