| 100% | HELEN | 5 | With 25 Across, author whose best-known character is named Jones |
| 100% | HENRY | 5 | With 25 Across, author whose best-known character is named Jones |
| 54% | KIRK | 4 | Well known TV character whose middle name is Tiberius |
| 48% | ARCHER | 6 | Jeffrey ___, "Kane and Abel" author whose last name sounds like someone who is good with a bow and arrow |
| 43% | GEORGE | 6 | With 35-Across, Hanna-Barbera cartoon character with red hair whose best friend is a supercomputer named R.U.D.I. |
| 42% | MARCO | 5 | With 74 Across, explorer whose name is shouted in a pool |
| 42% | PRINCESSMERIDA | 14 | Disney cartoon character with red hair whose best friend is a horse named Angus (2 wds.) |
| 40% | FONZ | 4 | 1970's TV character whose real first name was Arthur, with "the" |
| 39% | DAY | 3 | Well-known singer and actor whose last name was really Kappelhoff |
| 38% | MAMA | 4 | With 66-Across, fairy-tale character whose bed was too soft |
| 37% | MILNE | 5 | Author whose son was named Christopher Robin |
| 37% | THORA | 5 | With 33-Across, "Ghost World" actress whose last name is a tree |
| 37% | AAMILNE | 7 | Author whose most famous character is introduced as Edward Bear |
| 37% | SMEE | 4 | Literary character whose name is an anagram of 9-Across |
| 37% | ZARA | 4 | Fashion giant whose name is 4-Across with different vowels |
| 37% | SPOONERISMS | 11 | What 18-, 25-, 37- and 52-Across all are (whose circled letters name something used with the base phrases) |
| 37% | ANON | 4 | Author whose name is never mentioned, for short |
| 37% | CHARLOTTE | 9 | Author whose pen name was Currer Bell: __ Brontë |
| 37% | MILEY | 5 | With 33-Across, singer whose "Flowers" was the best-selling global single of 2023 |
| 37% | NORTH | 5 | With 8-Across, country whose legislature is known as the Supreme People's Assembly |
| 36% | TSO | 3 | General whose good name has been battered? |
| 36% | CATHY | 5 | Long-running comic strip whose title character is named after its author |
| 36% | DAHL | 4 | Author whose name is one letter off from 31-Down |
| 35% | STARBUCKS | 9 | Coffeehouse chain with a siren logo, whose name was inspired by Melville's best friend in "Moby Dick" |
| 35% | SPONGEBOB | 9 | First name of the cartoon character whose best friend is Patrick Star |
| 35% | DORA | 4 | Cartoon explorer whose best friend is a monkey named Boots |
| 35% | JONG | 4 | Author whose best-known work begins "There were 117 psychoanalysts on the Pan Am flight to Vienna and I'd been treated by at least six of them" |
| 35% | FREDDIE | 7 | With 34-Across, Queen lead singer whose last name is a metal with the chemical symbol Hg |
| 34% | ORION | 5 | "Dances with Wolves" distribution company whose name is also a 49-Across |
| 34% | BUZZ | 4 | ___ Bissinger, "Friday Night Lights" author whose name is related to 13a |