| 100% | LOMAN | 5 | The salesman in "Death of a Salesman" |
| 96% | LOMAN | 5 | Willy ___, the salesman in "Death of a Salesman" |
| 79% | WILLY | 5 | With 35-Across, the lead role in Arthur Miller's play "Death of a Salesman" |
| 75% | WENDELLPIERCE | 13 | "The Wire" actor who starred in "Death of a Salesman" on Broadway in 2022: 2 wds. |
| 75% | LOMAN | 5 | Willy in "Death of a Salesman" |
| 73% | BIFF | 4 | Son in “Death of a Salesman” |
| 71% | JAMESAGEE | 9 | Pulitzer-winning author of A Death in the Family |
| 71% | JOEEGG | 6 | Peter Nichols play, A Day in the Death of __ |
| 70% | HELLHOUND | 9 | Omen of death in the form of a ghostly dog |
| 70% | AGEE | 4 | Surname of James, author of A Death in the Family |
| 70% | JOEEGG | 6 | Peter Nichols wrote A Day in the Death of him |
| 69% | ELIA | 4 | Name on the 1949 "Death of a Salesman" playbill |
| 69% | MILLER | 6 | American author of Death of a Salesman |
| 69% | ODE | 3 | "___ on the Death of a Favourite Cat Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes" (Thomas Gray poem) |
| 68% | MILLER | 6 | Death of a Salesman playwright: Arthur __ |
| 68% | LOMAN | 5 | Death of a Salesman protagonist Willy |
| 68% | DUSTINHOFFMAN | 13 | "Tootsie" actor who starred in "Death of a Salesman" on Broadway in 1984: 2 wds. |
| 68% | OWL | 3 | Bird that's a harbinger of death in "Killers of the Flower Moon" |
| 68% | ALBATROSS | 9 | Bird whose death causes a curse in "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" |
| 67% | MILLER | 6 | Arthur, writer of Death of a Salesman |
| 67% | CAPTAIN | 7 | The person in charge of a ship |
| 67% | HEARTH | 6 | The area in front of a fireplace |
| 66% | TINA | 4 | The housewife in "Diary of a Mad Housewife" |
| 66% | CROUPIER | 8 | The person in charge of a gaming table |
| 66% | GREG | 4 | The kid in "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" |
| 66% | AGEE | 4 | James —, author of 1957 autobiographical novel A Death in the Family |
| 66% | EDITOR | 6 | The person in charge of a newspaper or magazine |
| 65% | WILLY | 5 | ___ Loman (role for Wendell Pierce in a Broadway revival of “Death of a Salesman”) |
| 64% | RFK | 3 | Deliverer of a noted speech upon the death of Martin Luther King Jr. (4/4/1968), in brief |
| 64% | THEBRIGHTSWORD | 14 | Lev Grossman novel about a knight who arrives in Camelot after the death of King Arthur (3 wds.) |