| 100% | INN | 3 | The Crossed Harpoons, in literature |
| 77% | INN | 3 | The Crossed Harpoons, in "Moby-Dick" |
| 77% | INN | 3 | The Crossed Harpoons, in "Moby Dick" |
| 54% | ENID | 4 | In literature, the personification of purity |
| 52% | ADULT | 5 | The "A" in "YA literature" |
| 51% | TESS | 4 | The Durbeyfield girl, in literature |
| 51% | TANGELO | 7 | Cross in the fruit shop |
| 49% | THULE | 5 | In old literature, the northernmost European region |
| 48% | YEATS | 5 | Literature Nobelist who served in the Irish Senate |
| 48% | YALU | 4 | River crossed in the Korean War |
| 48% | SANG | 4 | Crossed the mob, in a way |
| 48% | ROWED | 5 | Crossed the lake, in a way |
| 47% | ASL | 3 | In which the letter “R” resembles “fingers crossed”: Abbr. |
| 47% | SKI | 3 | Travel cross-country in the snow |
| 47% | AIMAT | 5 | Put in the cross hairs |
| 47% | TARGET | 6 | One in the cross hairs |
| 46% | FRANCE | 6 | Home of the most Literature Nobelists in history |
| 46% | MAGELLAN | 8 | First European in history to cross the Pacific |
| 46% | ASPENS | 6 | Trees that "at the cross-roads talk together," in an Edward Thomas poem |
| 45% | PANGBORN | 8 | Clyde, stunt flyer who crossed the Pacific in 1931 |
| 45% | AETNA | 5 | Blue Cross competitor that's in the Fortune 100 |
| 45% | TIGRIS | 6 | Starts in Turkey, crosses Iraq to the Persian Gulf |
| 45% | DODO | 4 | Flightless bird that runs the airline in Animal Crossing |
| 45% | CARP | 4 | Freshwater fish often caught in the "Animal Crossing" games |
| 45% | STAVROPOL | 9 | The "City of the Cross" in Southwest Russia |
| 44% | HEIDI | 5 | Girl of children's literature who lives in the Alps |
| 44% | OAR | 3 | Thing seen in the foreground of "Washington Crossing the Delaware" |
| 44% | UBOAT | 5 | Menace in "Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania" |
| 44% | WIGAN | 5 | Town in Greater Manchester housing the monument Mab's Cross |
| 44% | IDLE | 4 | Sit in the car at a railway crossing, e.g. |