| 100% | CONMEN | 6 | The title characters of 1988's "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels," e.g. |
| 54% | LABANIMAL | 9 | The title character of “Flowers for Algernon,” e.g. |
| 44% | AMORAL | 6 | Like the title character of Camus’s “The Stranger” |
| 43% | HUSTLE | 6 | Female Dirty Rotten Scoundrel's remake The __ |
| 43% | HARTMAN | 7 | Soap title character of the 1970's |
| 42% | PUN | 3 | The title of this puzzle, e.g. |
| 42% | XXXXX | 5 | Helper of the title character of Netflix's "Wednesday" |
| 42% | RANGEBEDFELLOWS | 15 | The main characters of "Brokeback Mountain," e.g.? |
| 42% | SLUR | 4 | "Dirty, rotten scoundrel," e.g. |
| 42% | SLUR | 4 | "Dirty rotten scoundrel," e.g. |
| 41% | TROUPE | 6 | The main characters of the film “The Travelling Players,” e.g. |
| 41% | ANI | 3 | Nickname for the title character of “Anora” |
| 41% | CONMAN | 6 | Either main character in "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels," e.g. (2 wds.) |
| 41% | CAT | 3 | The title character of the short story “Tobermory,” for one |
| 40% | IAN | 3 | Title character of the BBC drama ''Bondmaker'' |
| 40% | ZHIVAGO | 7 | Title character of the 1958 Nobel novel |
| 40% | JAROD | 5 | Title character of TV's "The Pretender" |
| 40% | ALEC | 4 | Baldwin who voices the title character of "The Boss Baby" |
| 40% | MARS | 4 | Whence the title character of “Stranger in a Strange Land” |
| 39% | ERIK | 4 | Title character of "The Phantom of the Opera" |
| 39% | SAURON | 6 | Title character of "The Lord of the Rings" |
| 39% | DIEGO | 5 | Title character of a "Dora the Explorer" spinoff |
| 39% | ARIEL | 5 | Title character of Disney's "The Little Mermaid" |
| 39% | ARLO | 4 | Title character of Pixar's "The Good Dinosaur" |
| 39% | BEATRIXPOTTER | 13 | Author/illustrator who created the title character of 18-Across: 2 wds. |
| 38% | ANANG | 5 | Title character of a 1988 They Might Be Giants song |
| 38% | DREAMER | 7 | Someone who fantasizes a lot, like the title character of 15-/47-Across |
| 38% | GARFIELD | 8 | Fictional lasagna-loving cat who is the title character of a comic strip |
| 38% | PYM | 3 | Title character of the only novel that Edgar Allan Poe wrote |