| CONNOR | Sarah _; protagonist of the Terminator series of films (6) |
| LINDA | Hamilton of the "Terminator" series |
| SARAH | Character in the Terminator series played by Linda Hamilton in the original films (5,6) |
| DRAPER | Don ___, protagonist of the TV series Mad Men (6) |
| RENTON | Mark ___, protagonist of the novel Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh |
| STEELE | Anastasia ___, protagonist of "Fifty Shades of Grey" |
| FLEMING | Henry __, protagonist of The Red Badge of Courage (7) |
| OHARA | Scarlett _, protagonist of the 1939 film Gone with the Wind (5) |
| HANNAY | Richard ___, protagonist in The Thirty-Nine Steps (6) |
| BUCKET | Charlie ___ , protagonist in Roald Dahl's story Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (6) |
| MONTAG | Guy ___, protagonist in the dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 (6) |
| MAC | Little ___ (protagonist of the video game Punch-Out!!) |
| GALE | Dorothy _, protagonist of the Oz novels by L Frank Baum (4) |
| REILLY | Ignatius J. ___, protagonist in "A Confederacy of Dunces" |
| REACHER | Jack _, protagonist of a series of novels by Lee Child (7) |
| ONO | Masuji ___ (protagonist of Ishiguro's An Artist of the Floating World) |
| LAST | Tony ___, protagonist of 1934 Evelyn Waugh novel A Handful of Dust (4) |
| PATEL | Pi ___ (Protagonist of 2001 novel Life of Pi written by Canadian author Yann Martel) |
| FOLEY | Axel _, protagonist of "Beverly Hills Cop' |
| HIRO | ___ Protagonist (of Neal Stephenson's "Snow Crash") |