| 100% | OFF | 3 | "Noises ___" (1982 farce featuring a play within a play) |
| 51% | META | 4 | Like a play within a play |
| 48% | KISSMEKATE | 10 | Cole Porter musical that's a play within a play |
| 44% | PYRAMUS | 7 | Play within A Midsummer Night's Dream, __ & Thisbe |
| 41% | THEHOTLLTIMORE | 14 | 1973 play featuring a sign with a burned-out "E" |
| 41% | VROOM | 5 | Noise made while playing with a Matchbox car |
| 41% | SCREENPASS | 10 | Grid play featuring a short toss |
| 41% | AMERICANBUFFALO | 15 | Mamet play featuring a rare nickel |
| 40% | AIR | 3 | "___ Bud" (film featuring a Golden Retriever playing basketball) |
| 39% | WHISTLE | 7 | Play-stopping noise from a referee |
| 39% | MARAINEY | 8 | Title blues singer of a 1982 August Wilson play |
| 38% | DOIDO | 5 | 1982 hit featuring Stevie Wonder rapping and a Dizzy Gillespie trumpet solo |
| 38% | SWAMP | 5 | "___ Thing," TV show featuring a green, monstrous antihero played by Derek Mears |
| 37% | ANTIGONE | 8 | Oedipus' daughter featured in a Sophocles play |
| 36% | TOOTSIE | 7 | 1982 film in which Dustin Hoffman plays a cross-dressing actor |
| 36% | GANDHI | 6 | Ben Kingsley played this leader in a 1982 film |
| 35% | STRITCH | 7 | Elaine —, 1956 Tony Award Best Featured Actress in a Play nominee for Bus Stop |
| 35% | CINDERELLA | 10 | 2015 romantic fantasy film that features a Fairy Godmother played by Helena Bonham Carter |
| 35% | META | 4 | Like a play about a play |
| 35% | DELATOUR | 8 | Frances —, 2006 Tony Award Best Featured Actress in a Play winner for The History Boys |
| 35% | BERTISH | 7 | Suzanne —, 1995 Tony Award Best Featured Actress in a Play nominee for The Moliere Comedies |
| 35% | BRODERICK | 9 | Matthew —, 1983 Best Featured Actor in a Play Tony Award winner for Brighton Beach Memoirs |
| 35% | CREEK | 5 | "Schitt's ___," multiple Emmy-winning sitcom that features a pansexual character played by Dan Levy |
| 34% | ACT | 3 | Play in a play |
| 34% | CHARACTER | 9 | A person depicted in a novel or a play |
| 34% | SOPHIESCHOICE | 13 | 1982 film where Kevin Kline and a Holocaust survivor played by Meryl Streep are a couple: 2 wds. |
| 34% | ENCHANTED | 9 | "Ella ___," 2004 fantasy rom-com film that features a misguided fairy played by Vivica A. Fox |
| 34% | PETER | 5 | "___ Pan," 2003 fantasy adventure film that features a fairy named Tinker Bell played by Ludivine Sagnier |
| 34% | ACT | 3 | A part of a play |
| 34% | ROLE | 4 | A character in a play |