| 100% | ERNANI | 6 | Title bandit in a Verdi work |
| 79% | ERNANI | 6 | Title bandit in a Verdi opera |
| 68% | ERNANI | 6 | Verdi work whose title character is a bandit |
| 58% | TRAVIATA | 8 | "Fallen woman," in a Verdi title |
| 56% | TROVATORE | 9 | The singer Manrico, in a Verdi-opera title |
| 54% | ARIA | 4 | Song in a Puccini or Verdi work |
| 45% | OTELLO | 6 | Titular tenor in a Verdi opera |
| 45% | AIDA | 4 | Ethiopian princess in a Verdi opera |
| 44% | AIDA | 4 | Verdi work set in Egypt |
| 44% | MRS | 3 | Title bestowed in a ceremony |
| 44% | NEMO | 4 | Title clownfish in a 200 |
| 43% | MIO | 3 | Possessive heard in a Verdi 9-Across, perhaps |
| 43% | JUDE | 4 | Title fellow in a Beatles song |
| 43% | JOAN | 4 | Title heroine in a Shaw play |
| 43% | RITA | 4 | Title woman in a Beatles song |
| 43% | AMAHL | 5 | Title character in a Menotti opera |
| 43% | BORIS | 5 | Title character in a Pushkin drama |
| 43% | HELEN | 5 | Title character in a Euripides drama |
| 43% | ULEE | 4 | Title beekeeper in a 1997 film |
| 43% | WALLE | 5 | Title robot in a Pixar film |
| 43% | LOIS | 4 | Title mom in a comic strip |
| 43% | MOESHA | 6 | Title teen in a 1990s sitcom |
| 43% | PNIN | 4 | Title professor in a 1957 novel |
| 43% | GEORGIE | 7 | Title boy in a nursery rhyme |
| 43% | EADIE | 5 | Title lady in a 1933 song |
| 43% | ALLIE | 5 | Title role in a 1980s sitcom |
| 43% | NOLA | 4 | Title girl in a 1922 hit |
| 43% | THESEA | 6 | Title location in a Hemingway novel |
| 43% | ATRAIN | 6 | Title transport in a 1941 song |
| 43% | HANSEL | 6 | Title boy in a Humperdinck opera |