| 100% | DRZHIVAGO | 9 | Title character who writes the "Lara" poems |
| 56% | REBECCA | 7 | Title character who dies before the novel begins |
| 54% | CLARE | 5 | 50-Across character who writes for the school paper |
| 54% | SULA | 4 | Toni Morrison title character who lives in the Bottom |
| 54% | GODOT | 5 | Beckett title character who is not in the cast |
| 54% | ELAINE | 6 | "Seinfeld" character who wrote for the J. Peterman catalog |
| 53% | CIARDI | 6 | John who wrote the textbook "How Does a Poem Mean?" |
| 53% | NEMO | 4 | Movie title character who meets the Tank Gang |
| 52% | MULAN | 5 | Disney title character who joins the Chinese Imperial Army |
| 52% | THELORAX | 8 | 31-Across environmental title character who speaks for the trees (2 wds.) |
| 52% | ALF | 3 | 1980s sitcom title character who also went by the name Gordon Shumway |
| 52% | WHEATLEY | 8 | Phillis who wrote the poem “On Being Brought from Africa to America” |
| 51% | SHREK | 5 | Film title character who says "This is the part where you run away" |
| 51% | VITOCORLEONE | 12 | Character who has the title role in 15-Across: 2 wds. |
| 51% | PYM | 3 | Title character of the only novel that Edgar Allan Poe wrote |
| 51% | TODD | 4 | "BoJack Horseman" character who writes the rock opera "Newtopia Rising, Book I: The Search for a New Utopia" |
| 50% | DANNYRAND | 9 | Comic character who earned the title Iron Fist |
| 50% | NEMO | 4 | Title movie character who befriends the "Tank Gang" |
| 50% | YERTLE | 6 | Kid-lit title character who says "I am the ruler of all that I see!" |
| 50% | ROMEO | 5 | Shakespeare title character who says, “My mind misgives / Some consequence yet hanging in the stars” |
| 49% | ADRIENNERICH | 12 | Poet and feminist who wrote “The moment of change is the only poem” |
| 49% | YUBA | 4 | Rhyming title character who plays the tuba in Cuba, in a Rudy Vallee song |
| 48% | KANE | 4 | Film title character who says, "If the headline is big enough, it makes the news big enough" |
| 48% | ISRAEL | 6 | Character who provides the title of Chapter 26 of 1883 RL Stevenson novel Treasure Island |
| 47% | CALVIN | 6 | Comics title character who says "Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery" |
| 47% | WILLIAMBUTLER | 13 | ___ Yeats, Irish poet who wrote the poem "The Second Coming" and helped found the Abbey Theatre: 2 wds. |
| 47% | TIERNEY | 7 | Gene who played the title character in Laura |
| 47% | TOM | 3 | Hiddleston who plays the title character in Loki |
| 47% | STEELE | 6 | Shelby who wrote "The Content of Our Character" |
| 47% | EMMALAZARUS | 11 | Female US poet who wrote "The New Colossus" (the poem on the Statue of Liberty): 2 wds. |