| 100% | GOLDILOCKSAND | 13 | With 53 Across, fairy tale about a young, blonde trespasser |
| 46% | SNOW | 4 | "___ White" fairy tale about a girl who lived in a forest with seven dwarfs |
| 37% | PAPA | 4 | Fairy tale bear with a hard bed |
| 37% | MAMABEAR | 8 | Fairy tale character with a too-soft bed |
| 37% | BEAUTY | 6 | "___ and the Beast," French fairy tale about a cursed prince living deep within a forest |
| 36% | PUSS | 4 | __ in Boots, fairy tale with a cunning cat |
| 36% | JEANIEWITH | 10 | With 99 Across, song about a carnival attraction? |
| 35% | HANSEL | 6 | Fairy tale boy who finds a gingerbread house with his sister Gretel |
| 34% | EVIL | 4 | (3/3) ___ stepmother, fairy tale villain with a poisoned apple, perhaps |
| 34% | THERESIDENT | 11 | Fox medical drama about a young doctor at odds with his hospital's bureaucracy: 2 wds. |
| 34% | PASSENGER | 9 | With 89 Across, a headline about a surly frequent flyer? |
| 33% | BIRD | 4 | "Summer ___ Blue," novel by Akemi Dawn Bowman about a young woman who writes songs with her sister |
| 33% | MEAT | 4 | With 53-Across, a cleaver |
| 33% | MANYARECOLD | 11 | With 106 Across, a restaurant's boast about its seafood filets? |
| 33% | ADEDICATEDFOLLOWER | 18 | With 84 Across, a 1966 song by the Kinks about Mussolini? |
| 33% | THE | 3 | With 56-Across, last words of a fairy tale |
| 33% | THE | 3 | With 60-Across, last words of a fairy tale |
| 33% | GRIMM | 5 | Brother with a fairy tale |
| 33% | TURKISH | 7 | With 53-Across, a sugary treat |
| 32% | SAGA | 4 | Tale about a gas |
| 32% | METES | 5 | With 53 Across, apportions |
| 32% | STEAL | 5 | Tales about a bargain |
| 32% | HAG | 3 | Choose the villain for your fairy tale! (1/3) Fairy tale witch with a broom, perhaps |
| 32% | FEESCHARGEDBYAN | 15 | With 53-Across, a daffynition of 20-Across |
| 32% | PAPA | 4 | Fairy-tale bear with a big chair |
| 32% | POTION | 6 | (4/6) Magical fairy tale concoction that may be brewed in a cauldron (rhymes with "motion") |
| 32% | PIRATE | 6 | (2/3) Fairy tale villain with an eye patch who's found on a ship, perhaps |
| 31% | THUMBELINA | 10 | Fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen about a tiny girl that was adapted into a 1994 Warner Bros. film |
| 31% | NEW | 3 | With 53 Across, historical fresh start |
| 31% | GRETEL | 6 | Fairy tale about two siblings: Hansel and __ |