| 100% | COEDS | 5 | "Here Come the ___" (Abbott and Costello film set at a girls' school) |
| 72% | RIORITA | 7 | 1942 Abbott and Costello film set at a resort on the U.S.-Mexico border |
| 48% | COEDS | 5 | Abbott and Costello's "Here Come the ___" |
| 43% | CHILDREN | 8 | "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar ___" (Tim Burton film set at a school) |
| 43% | WUSA | 4 | 1970 film set at a radio station starring Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward |
| 42% | FAME | 4 | 1980 musical film set at the High School of Performing Arts |
| 41% | RUSHMORE | 8 | 1998 Wes Anderson film set at a private school |
| 41% | TAPS | 4 | George C. Scott film set at a military school |
| 38% | HYDE | 4 | Karloff role in a 1953 Abbott and Costello film |
| 38% | TURNINGRED | 10 | 2022 Pixar film about a girl who goes through unusual changes, and the change seen inside each set of circles |
| 38% | RIORITA | 7 | 1942 Abbott and Costello film |
| 37% | DEAD | 4 | "___ Poets Society" (Robin Williams film set at a prep school) |
| 37% | REBECCA | 7 | Hitchcock film set at a Cornwall estate |
| 37% | EARL | 4 | "Me and ___ and the Dying Girl" (2015 film with a rhyming title) |
| 37% | GREASE | 6 | 1978 film set at Rydell High School based on a musical that debuted on Broadway in 1972 |
| 37% | MATRON | 6 | Dorm supervisor at a girls' school |
| 37% | PSYCHO | 6 | Film set at the Bates Motel |
| 37% | SHOEBOXES | 9 | Stack at Famous Footwear, and a hint to the sets of circled letters |
| 36% | SCH8LDAZE | 9 | Spike Lee film set at a historically black college |
| 36% | ALLEY | 5 | "Nightmare ___" (Guillermo del Toro film set at a carnival) |
| 36% | HESOUTTHERE | 11 | 2018 slasher film set at a remote lake house |
| 36% | ROADHOUSE | 9 | Patrick Swayze film set at a dive bar (2 wds.) |
| 36% | GENIE | 5 | Fictional character from the film "Aladdin" that comes out of a lamp and grants wishes |
| 35% | ALGIERS | 7 | Setting of "Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion" |
| 34% | HANNA | 5 | Film and TV series about a girl raised in the wilderness |
| 34% | EARL | 4 | "Me and ___ and the Dying Girl" (Jesse Andrews novel adapted as a film directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon) |
| 34% | ISLE | 4 | "The Magic of Belle ___" (Morgan Freeman/Virginia Madsen film set at a lakeside community) |
| 34% | ANIMALHOUSE | 11 | 1977 film set at the fictional Faber College: 2 wds. |
| 34% | EARL | 4 | "Me and ___ and the Dying Girl," 2015 film starring RJ Cyler that has a royal designation in its title |
| 34% | HOLLANDTAYLOR | 13 | "Two and a Half Men" actress who came out of the closet in 2015 at age 72: 2 wds. |