| 100% | VIOLADAVIS | 10 | "How to Get Away With Murder" actress who stars in 40-Across: 2 wds. |
| 70% | AJANAOMIKING | 12 | "How to Get Away with Murder" actress who plays Latrice in "The Upside" (3 wds.) |
| 68% | KARLASOUZA | 10 | "How to Get Away With Murder" actress who plays ex-lawyer Marina on ABC's "Home Economics": 2 wds. |
| 60% | VIOLADAVIS | 10 | Actress who played law professor Annalise Keating on "How to Get Away With Murder": 2 wds. |
| 57% | ANGELABASSETT | 13 | Actress who played rock star Tina Turner in the 1993 film "What's Love Got to Do With It": 2 wds. |
| 54% | VIOLA | 5 | With 28-Across, "How to Get Away with Murder" actress who wrote the 2022 memoir "Finding Me" |
| 54% | SHONDARHIMES | 12 | Showrunner responsible for "Grey's Anatomy" and "How to Get Away With Murder": 2 wds. |
| 54% | AJANAOMIKING | 12 | "How to Get Away With Murder" actress whose first name is spelled the same forward and backward: 3 wds. |
| 54% | ANGELABASSETT | 13 | "What's Love Got to Do With It" actress who starred in "American Horror Story: Freak Show": 2 wds. |
| 51% | VIOLA | 5 | "How to Get Away With Murder" actress Davis |
| 51% | DAVIS | 5 | "How to Get Away with Murder" actress Viola |
| 51% | AJA | 3 | "How to Get Away With Murder" actress ___ Naomi King |
| 51% | AJA | 3 | "How to Get Away With Murder" actress __ Naomi King |
| 51% | AJA | 3 | “How to Get Away with Murder” actress ___ Naomi King |
| 51% | ANNALISE | 8 | Keating who knew how to get away with murder |
| 51% | DAVIS | 5 | "How to Get Away With Murder" star Viola |
| 48% | ROONEYMARA | 10 | "Carol" actress who starred in 2011's "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo": 2 wds. |
| 48% | INGRIDBERGMAN | 13 | Actress who starred with Cary Grant in Alfred Hitchcock's "Notorious": 2 wds. |
| 48% | MERYLSTREEP | 11 | Oscar-winning actress who starred with 29-Across in "Out of Africa" (2 wds.) |
| 48% | ANNAFARIS | 9 | "Scary Movie" actress who stars in 44-Across: 2 wds. |
| 48% | UMATHURMAN | 10 | "Pulp Fiction" actress who stars in 15-Across: 2 wds. |
| 48% | VERAFARMIGA | 11 | "The Conjuring" actress who stars in 27-Across: 2 wds. |
| 48% | ANGELABASSETT | 13 | Actress who plays Tina Turner in the music biopic "What's Love Got to Do with It" (2 wds.) |
| 47% | ANGELINAJOLIE | 13 | Actress who stars in, wrote, directed, and coproduced 16-Across: 2 wds. |
| 47% | VIOLADAVIS | 10 | Oscar-, Emmy-, and Tony-winning actress who plays lawyer Annalise Keating on "How to Get Away with Murder" (2 wds.) |
| 47% | ANNEHECHE | 9 | Actress who starred in the 1998 remake of 49-Across: 2 wds. |
| 47% | VIOLA | 5 | Actress Davis of "How to Get Away with Murder" |
| 47% | LIZA | 4 | Actress Weil of "How to Get Away With Murder" |
| 46% | BILLYBROWN | 10 | "Sons of Anarchy" actor who plays detective Nate Lahey on "How to Get Away with Murder" (2 wds.) |
| 46% | ALFRED | 6 | With 36-Across, "How to Get Away with Murder" actor who plays Raych Seldon on 25-Across |