| 100% | MERCHANT | 8 | The __ of Venice, a Shakespeare's comedy |
| 64% | GENTLEMEN | 9 | Two __ of Verona, a Shakespeare's comedy |
| 60% | LABOURS | 7 | Word in the title of a Shakespeare comedy |
| 59% | OTHELLO | 7 | Shakespeare's play about the Moor of Venice |
| 59% | TRAGEDY | 7 | In theater, it's the opposite of a comedy |
| 58% | ADO | 3 | Second word in the title of a Shakespeare comedy |
| 57% | FARCE | 5 | Shakespeare's "The Comedy of Errors," e.g. |
| 56% | MOOR | 4 | "The Tragedy of Othello, the ___ of Venice" (full title of a Shakespeare play) |
| 56% | ADO | 3 | Word meaning "commotion" that's in the title of a Shakespeare comedy |
| 56% | EGEUS | 5 | Father of Hermia in the William Shakespeare play A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| 56% | SHYLOCK | 7 | The antagonist in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice |
| 55% | TITANIA | 7 | Queen of the fairies in the William Shakespeare play A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| 55% | SOFTIE | 6 | One who's liable to cry at the end of a romantic comedy, e.g. |
| 54% | MERCHANT | 8 | Shakespeare's "The ___ of Venice" |
| 54% | HIPPOLYTA | 9 | Queen of the Amazons betrothed to Theseus in William Shakespeare play A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| 53% | GOOEY | 5 | Melty, like the inside of a s'more |
| 53% | SHREW | 5 | "The Taming of the ___," romantic comedy written by William Shakespeare |
| 52% | NIGHT | 5 | "A Hard Day's ___," musical comedy film starring The Beatles members with a title track of the same name |
| 52% | JACKBLACK | 9 | "Gulliver's Travels" actor who is a part of the American comedy rock duo Tenacious D: 2 wds. |
| 52% | MIDSUMMER | 9 | Shakespeare's comedy: A __ Night's Dream |
| 52% | ADRIANA | 7 | Wife of Antipholus of Ephesus in Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors |
| 52% | GREG | 4 | ___ Heffley, protagonist of the children's comedy book series "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" |
| 52% | AUTOLYCUS | 9 | Petty thief in William Shakespeare play The Winter's Tale named after a grandfather of Odysseus in Greek mythology |
| 51% | SHREW | 5 | Shakespeare's "The Taming of the ___" |
| 51% | SHREW | 5 | Shakespeare's "The Taming of the ____" |
| 51% | SHREW | 5 | Shakespeare's ''The Taming of the __'' |
| 51% | OBERON | 6 | Shakespeare's King of the Fairies |
| 51% | TITANIA | 7 | Shakespeare's Queen of the Fairies |
| 50% | COMEDY | 6 | Shakespeare's shortest play, The __ of Errors |
| 50% | COMEDY | 6 | Shakespeare's shortest play: The __ of Errors |