| 100% | SAMMYDAVISJR | 12 | "The Candy Man" singer who played a con man disguised as a priest in "The Cannonball Run": 3 wds. |
| 46% | FREDASTAIRE | 11 | "Top Hat" actor who played a con man in "The Towering Inferno": 2 wds. |
| 44% | TOMMYLEEJONES | 13 | Actor who played Samuel Gerard, the man who leads a team of U.S. Marshals in 18a: 3 wds. |
| 43% | FARRAHFAWCETT | 13 | "Charlie's Angels" actress who played a photographer nicknamed Beauty in "The Cannonball Run": 2 wds. |
| 41% | SAMUELLJACKSON | 14 | "The Avengers" actor who plays a man with extremely fragile bones in "Unbreakable" and 62-Across (3 wds.) |
| 41% | WILLIAMHMACY | 12 | "Shameless" actor who played a car salesman who hired kidnappers in the 1996 film "Fargo": 3 wds. |
| 41% | KIRITEKANAWA | 12 | New Zealand-born soprano who played opera singer Nellie Melba in a "Downton Abbey" episode: 3 wds. |
| 40% | BETTERCALLSAUL | 14 | Crime drama set in Arizona and Nebraska that featured Carol Burnett in a recurring role as the mother of a con man (3 wds.) |
| 40% | ROBERTDOWNEYJR | 14 | "Iron Man" actor who played Doctor Dolittle in a 2020 film: 3 wds. |
| 39% | MARYJBLIGE | 10 | Singer who played Evillene in "The Wiz Live!": 3 wds. |
| 39% | OLIVIACOOKE | 11 | "Ready Player One" actress who plays the pregnant girlfriend of a murdered man in 31-Across (2 wds.) |
| 39% | BURTREYNOLDS | 12 | "Smokey and the Bandit" star who drove a souped-up ambulance in "The Cannonball Run": 2 wds. |
| 39% | NIALLHORAN | 10 | One Direction singer who's in his second season as a coach on "The Voice": 2 wds. |
| 39% | PAULMCCARTNEY | 13 | 76-year-old singer who is still in a "Band on the Run": 2 wds. |
| 39% | JILLIANBELL | 11 | "Brittany Runs a Marathon" actress who plays Pepper the Elf in 31-Across (2 wds.) |
| 38% | REBAMCENTIRE | 12 | Red-haired country singer who's in her first season as a coach on "The Voice": 2 wds. |
| 38% | MARKINGRAMJR | 12 | Texans running back who won the 2009 Heisman Trophy as a sophomore at Alabama: 3 wds. |
| 38% | JOSHBROLIN | 10 | Actor from "No Country for Old Men," who plays the role of Cable, a mutant soldier, in "The Untitled Deadpool Sequel": 2 wds. |
| 38% | ROBERTDUVALL | 12 | Oscar-winning actor who played a man in love with a tiny doll on "The Twilight Zone": 2 wds. |
| 38% | JOHNLECARRE | 11 | Author of "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" who cameoed as a party guest in the 2011 film adaptation: 3 wds. |
| 38% | RICHARDDAWSON | 13 | Original "Family Feud" host who plays the ruthless game show host in "The Running Man" (2 wds.) |
| 38% | MANONFIRE | 9 | 2004 film in which Denzel Washington plays the bodyguard for a child who's kidnapped: 3 wds. |
| 38% | ROBERTDOWNEYJR | 14 | "Iron Man" actor who plays 53-Across in a 2020 film (3 wds.) |
| 38% | ASIMPLEPLAN | 11 | 1998 movie in which Bill Paxton played a man who finds money in a crashed plane: 3 wds. |
| 37% | JOELGREY | 8 | Singer/actor who won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for playing the Master of Ceremonies in the 1972 film "Cabaret" (2 wds.) |
| 37% | MANDYMOORE | 10 | "I See the Light" singer who voiced Tabitha Vixx in "The Simpsons" episode, "Marge and Homer Turn a Couple Play": 2 wds. |
| 37% | ANSELELGORT | 11 | "The Fault in Our Stars" actor who is also a singer and DJ who plays under the name "Ansolo": 2 wds. |
| 37% | SPOTLESSMIND | 12 | "Eternal Sunshine of the ___," cult movie in which Jim Carrey (birthday today) plays a man who undergoes a memory-erasing procedure: 2 wds. |
| 37% | JESSEVENTURA | 12 | Former wrestler who played Captain Freedom in "The Running Man": 2 wds. |
| 36% | HARRYSTYLES | 11 | "As It Was" singer who plays Jack Chambers in the 2022 film "Don't Worry Darling": 2 wds. |