| 100% | DOUGRAYSCOTT | 12 | "Taken 3" actor who plays Kate's father Jacob on 14-Across: 2 wds. |
| 56% | WILLIAMHMACY | 12 | "Fargo" actor who plays 17-Across's father on "Shameless": 3 wds. |
| 54% | RANDALLPARK | 11 | Actor who plays 36-Across's father on "Fresh off the Boat" (2 wds.) |
| 52% | RUFUSSEWELL | 11 | "The Man in the High Castle" actor who plays Kate's husband Hal, an ex-ambassador, on "The Diplomat": 2 wds. |
| 52% | JAMESBROLIN | 11 | "Marcus Welby, M.D." actor who plays the father on 29-/32-Across: 2 wds. |
| 51% | KYLEMACLACHLAN | 14 | "Twin Peaks" actor who plays Lucy's father Hank on "Fallout": 2 wds. |
| 51% | FREDWILLARD | 11 | "Best in Show" actor who played Phil's father Frank on "Modern Family": 2 wds. |
| 50% | ADAMGOLDBERG | 12 | "Saving Private Ryan" actor who plays hacker Harry Keshegian on 14-Across: 2 wds. |
| 50% | JEFFREYTAMBOR | 13 | "Transparent" actor who played Michael Bluth's father George on "Arrested Development": 2 wds. |
| 50% | SYDNEYPOLLACK | 13 | Actor who plays Will Truman's father on "Will & Grace" (2 wds.) |
| 50% | ALEXKARRAS | 10 | Actor who played the adoptive father on "Webster": 2 wds. |
| 50% | RONLEIBMAN | 10 | "Norma Rae" actor who played Rachel's father, Dr. Leonard Green, on "Friends": 2 wds. |
| 50% | DICKVANPATTEN | 13 | Actor who played widowed father Tom Bradford on "Eight Is Enough": 3 wds. |
| 50% | FREDMACMURRAY | 13 | Actor who played widowed father Steve Douglas on "My Three Sons": 2 wds. |
| 50% | RICHARDSCHIFF | 13 | Actor who plays Shaun's mentor Aaron Glassman on 15-Across: 2 wds. |
| 49% | HARRISONFORD | 12 | "Raiders of the Lost Ark" actor who plays Jacob Dutton on "1923": 2 wds. |
| 49% | MICHAELONTKEAN | 14 | "Slap Shot" actor who played Sheriff Harry S. Truman on "Twin Peaks": 2 wds. |
| 49% | ELLIOTTGOULD | 12 | "Ocean's Eleven" actor who played Monica and Ross's father, Jack Geller, on "Friends": 2 wds. |
| 49% | BOBBALABAN | 10 | "The Monuments Men" actor who played Phoebe's father, Frank Buffay, Sr., on "Friends": 2 wds. |
| 49% | RUBYROSE | 8 | "Orange Is the New Black" actress who plays Kate Kane on 14-Across: 2 wds. |
| 49% | NICKROBINSON | 12 | "Love, Simon" actor who plays high school senior Eric Walker on 14-Across: 2 wds. |
| 48% | CHRISTIANKANE | 13 | The actor who plays the lead character and genius Jacob Stone on "The Librarians": 2 wds. |
| 47% | SEANGIAMBRONE | 13 | Actor who plays the geeky boy, Adam, on 18-Across: 2 wds. |
| 47% | BOBDENVER | 9 | Actor who played Gilligan on "Gilligan's Island": 2 wds. |
| 47% | TOPHERGRACE | 11 | "Spider-Man 3" actor who played Eric Forman on "That '70s Show": 2 wds. |
| 47% | DEANCAIN | 8 | Actor who played Superman on TV's "Lois & Clark": 2 wds. |
| 47% | TONYSHALHOUB | 12 | "Monk" actor who plays Midge's father Abe Weissman on "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" (2 wds.) |
| 47% | SAMROCKWELL | 11 | Actor who plays the father in the 2015 remake of 18-Across: 2 wds. |
| 47% | SPENCERTRACY | 12 | Actor who played the lawyer based on Clarence Darrow in 32-Across: 2 wds. |
| 47% | EDMUNDGWENN | 11 | Actor who played Kris Kringle in 1947's "Miracle on 34th Street": 2 wds. |