| 100% | MERYLSTREEP | 11 | "Into the Woods" actress who plays a feminist in 42-Across: 2 wds. |
| 83% | CAREYMULLIGAN | 13 | "The Great Gatsby" actress who plays a feminist in 42-Across: 2 wds. |
| 66% | TRACEYULLMAN | 12 | "Into the Woods" actress who played Princess Winnifred in the 2005 made-for-TV version of "Once Upon a Mattress": 2 wds. |
| 60% | KATHYBATES | 10 | Actress who plays a marijuana dispensary owner in the new Netflix comedy "Disjointed": 2 wds. |
| 60% | INGRIDBERGMAN | 13 | "Casablanca" actress who played a Swedish missionary in "Murder on the Orient Express": 2 wds. |
| 59% | SANDRABULLOCK | 13 | "The Blind Side" actress who played a crossword constructor in 33-Across: 2 wds. |
| 58% | SANDRABULLOCK | 13 | "Ocean's 8" actress who plays a novelist kidnapped in the jungle in "The Lost City": 2 wds. |
| 58% | MARLEEMATLIN | 12 | "CODA" actress who played a deaf employee at the school in "Children of a Lesser God": 2 wds. |
| 58% | JERYLPRESCOTT | 13 | Actress who plays Madame Xanadu, a blind fortune teller, in the show in 18a: 2 wds. |
| 58% | DIANEKEATON | 11 | Actress who plays a mother in "Father of the Bride" (2 wds.) |
| 58% | DEBRAMESSING | 12 | Actress who played 17a in the series for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award: 2 wds. |
| 58% | 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. |
| 58% | ANNAKENDRICK | 12 | "Pitch Perfect" actress who played Cinderella in the 2014 film "Into the Woods" (2 wds.) |
| 58% | ZOESALDANA | 10 | "Avatar" actress who played a pirate in the first "Pirates of the Caribbean" film: 2 wds. |
| 58% | VIOLADAVIS | 10 | "Fences" actress who plays a government official in "The Suicide Squad": 2 wds. |
| 57% | AUBREYPLAZA | 11 | Actress who plays a profane 14th-century nun in "The Little Hours": 2 wds. |
| 57% | DIANELANE | 9 | "Unfaithful" actress who plays Penny Chenery, the owner of 33-Across, in a 2010 film (2 wds.) |
| 57% | BRIELARSON | 10 | Actress who plays the character of Carol Danvers, a former U.S. Air Force pilot in "Captain Marvel": 2 wds. |
| 57% | GENEKELLY | 9 | "Brigadoon" actor who played a silent film star moving into talkies in "Singin' in the Rain": 2 wds. |
| 56% | ELLIEKEMPER | 11 | Actress who plays the lead role in 12-/24-Across: 2 wds. |
| 56% | AMYPOEHLER | 10 | Actress who played the role of Leslie Knope in "Parks and Recreation", a role she is best-known for: 2 wds. |
| 56% | SONJASOHN | 9 | "The Wire" actress who plays Nancy, the title boxer's mother, in a 2023 biopic about 40-Across (2 wds.) |
| 56% | KRISTENSTEWART | 14 | Actress who played a vampire in 2012's "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 2": 2 wds. |
| 56% | HELENMIRREN | 11 | "The Queen" actress who plays a retired intelligence agent in "The Thursday Murder Club": 2 wds. |
| 56% | CAMERONDIAZ | 11 | "The Mask" actress who played a private investigator named Natalie in "Charlie's Angels": 2 wds. |
| 56% | CRISTINMILIOTI | 14 | Actress who plays a wedding guest who's stuck in a time loop in 44-Across: 2 wds. |
| 56% | EIZAGONZALEZ | 12 | "Hobbs & Shaw" actress who plays a Navy diver turned supersoldier in 42-Across (2 wds.) |
| 56% | FARRAHFAWCETT | 13 | "Charlie's Angels" actress who played a photographer nicknamed Beauty in "The Cannonball Run": 2 wds. |
| 55% | JESSICATANDY | 12 | "Driving Miss Daisy" actress who played 15-Across in the original 1940s stage production of "A Streetcar Named Desire": 2 wds. |
| 55% | TANYAROBERTS | 12 | American actress who played Bond girl Stacey Sutton in the 1985 James Bond film "A View to a Kill": 2 wds. |