| 100% | BRUCEWILLIS | 11 | "Die Hard" star who plays the original G.I. Joe in 17-Across: 2 wds. |
| 53% | MICHAELEALY | 11 | "Barbershop" star who plays Dorian, the main android cop in 17-Across: 2 wds. |
| 52% | KYRASEDGWICK | 12 | "The Closer" star who plays producer/mom Jane Sadler in 17-/37-Across: 2 wds. |
| 52% | BRUCEWILLIS | 11 | "Die Hard" star who plays David Dunn (The Overseer) in "Glass": 2 wds. |
| 49% | LEAMICHELE | 10 | "Glee" star who played the main character in the 2022 Broadway revival of 15-Across: 2 wds. |
| 49% | MADSMIKKELSEN | 13 | "Doctor Strange" actor who plays the villain in the new 17-Across movie: 2 wds. |
| 49% | JAMESMCAVOY | 11 | "X-Men: Apocalypse" star who played the title character of 28-Across in a 2015 movie: 2 wds. |
| 49% | BILLYPORTER | 11 | "Pose" star who plays the Fab G, a fairy godparent, in 2021's "Cinderella" (2 wds.) |
| 48% | NICOLEKIDMAN | 12 | "Moulin Rouge!" star who plays the mother in "Boy Erased": 2 wds. |
| 48% | ALECGUINNESS | 12 | Oscar-winning actor who played 46-Across in the original "Star Wars" trilogy (2 wds.) |
| 48% | MORGANFREEMAN | 13 | "Invictus" star who plays the vice president in "London Has Fallen": 2 wds. |
| 48% | RUSSELLCROWE | 12 | "A Beautiful Mind" star who plays the father in "Boy Erased": 2 wds. |
| 47% | JOELEDGERTON | 12 | "Zero Dark Thirty" star who plays the head therapist in "Boy Erased": 2 wds. |
| 47% | CRAIGT | 6 | With 32-Across, "Coach" star who played the father in the 1982 version of 18-Across: 2 wds. |
| 47% | ASHTONKUTCHER | 13 | "That '70s Show" star who played the CEO of Apple in 2013's "Jobs": 2 wds. |
| 47% | ARMIEHAMMER | 11 | "The Lone Ranger" star who played the Winklevoss twins in "The Social Network": 2 wds. |
| 46% | TESSATHOMPSON | 13 | "Creed" star who plays Agent M in the new "Men in Black" movie: 2 wds. |
| 46% | CHRISROCK | 9 | "Grown Ups" star who played Rufus, the thirteenth apostle, in "Dogma": 2 wds. |
| 46% | JESSEEISENBERG | 14 | "A Real Pain" star who played the CEO of Facebook in 2010's "The Social Network": 2 wds. |
| 46% | TERIHATCHER | 11 | "Desperate Housewives" star who played a Bond girl in "Tomorrow Never Dies": 2 wds. |
| 46% | SALMAHAYEK | 10 | "Frida" star who played Serendipity, the muse of creative inspiration, in "Dogma": 2 wds. |
| 45% | FREDSAVAGE | 10 | Actor who played Kevin Arnold in the original version of 36-Across and is coproducing the reboot: 2 wds. |
| 45% | BENPLATT | 8 | "The Politician" star who plays the title role in the movie adaptation of "Dear Evan Hansen": 2 wds. |
| 45% | BLAKELIVELY | 11 | "Gossip Girl" star who plays Lily in the upcoming movie "It Ends With Us": 2 wds. |
| 45% | COREYFELDMAN | 12 | "Stand by Me" actor who played the Petersons' neighbor, Ricky Butler, in 50-Across: 2 wds. |
| 45% | MATTDAMON | 9 | "Good Will Hunting" star who played fallen angel Loki in the 1999 film "Dogma": 2 wds. |
| 45% | PETERFALK | 9 | "Columbo" star who played The Grandfather in "The Princess Bride" (2 wds.) |
| 45% | JESSICATANDY | 12 | "Driving Miss Daisy" actress who played 15-Across in the original 1940s stage production of "A Streetcar Named Desire": 2 wds. |
| 45% | JANESEYMOUR | 11 | "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman" star who played a Bond girl in "Live and Let Die": 2 wds. |
| 45% | KARYNPARSONS | 12 | Actress who played the snobbish cousin of 17-Across in "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air," which is rumored to be getting a reunion: 2 wds. |