| 100% | INN | 3 | The Crossed Harpoons, in "Moby Dick" |
| 92% | INN | 3 | The Crossed Harpoons, in "Moby-Dick" |
| 72% | INN | 3 | The Crossed Harpoons, in literature |
| 54% | STARBUCK | 8 | First mate of the Pequod in Moby Dick |
| 52% | INN | 3 | The Spouter in "Moby Dick," for one |
| 51% | STARBUCK | 8 | Pequod's chief mate in Moby Dick |
| 51% | QUEEQUEG | 8 | Harpooner in the novel Moby-Dick |
| 48% | AHAB | 4 | Captain ___, the obsessed captain in "Moby Dick" |
| 47% | TANGELO | 7 | Cross in the fruit shop |
| 46% | INN | 3 | The Spouter in "Moby-Dick," for one |
| 45% | EDMEESE | 7 | Dick Thornburgh's predecessor in the cabinet |
| 44% | YALU | 4 | River crossed in the Korean War |
| 44% | SANG | 4 | Crossed the mob, in a way |
| 44% | ROWED | 5 | Crossed the lake, in a way |
| 44% | ASL | 3 | In which the letter “R” resembles “fingers crossed”: Abbr. |
| 43% | SKI | 3 | Travel cross-country in the snow |
| 43% | AIMAT | 5 | Put in the cross hairs |
| 43% | TARGET | 6 | One in the cross hairs |
| 43% | JOEBIDEN | 8 | Dick Cheney's successor in the Executive Branch: 2 wds. |
| 43% | SHAWN | 5 | Dick —, actor who played LSD in 1968 comedy The Producers |
| 43% | AHAB | 4 | Captain in pursuit of Moby Dick |
| 43% | BINOS | 5 | Whales like the one in "Moby-Dick" |
| 43% | MAGELLAN | 8 | First European in history to cross the Pacific |
| 42% | CHAPTERII | 9 | "The Carpet-Bag," in "Moby-Dick" |
| 42% | NARRATOR | 8 | Ishmael, in ''Moby Dick'' |
| 42% | ASPENS | 6 | Trees that "at the cross-roads talk together," in an Edward Thomas poem |
| 42% | SHAWN | 5 | Dick —, actor who played LSD in 1968 film comedy The Producers |
| 42% | SHAWN | 5 | Dick -, actor who played LSD in 1968 film comedy The Producers |
| 42% | HIGH | 4 | Philip K. Dick's "The Man in the ___ Castle" |
| 42% | PANGBORN | 8 | Clyde, stunt flyer who crossed the Pacific in 1931 |