| 100% | COBRAKAI | 8 | "The Karate Kid" sequel series on Netflix with a venomous snake in the title: 2 wds. |
| 62% | SQUIDGAME | 9 | South Korean survival drama series on Netflix with a tentacled sea predator in the title: 2 wds. |
| 55% | SHARKTANK | 9 | Entrepreneurial reality series on ABC with a fierce ocean menace in the title: 2 wds. |
| 51% | COBRAKAI | 8 | Netflix series that is a sequel to the "Karate Kid" franchise: 2 wds. |
| 48% | ALTEREDCARBON | 13 | Netflix series, based on a cyberpunk novel, set more than 300 years in the future: 2 wds. |
| 46% | STRANGERTHINGS | 14 | Netflix series set in the 1980s in which single mom Joyce Byers contends with a supernatural monster: 2 wds. |
| 45% | DAWSONSCREEK | 12 | Classic high-school drama series on the WB whose title character lives near a stream in Capeside, Massachusetts: 2 wds. |
| 44% | UZOADUBA | 8 | "In Treatment" actress who plays a detective on the Netflix series "The Residence": 2 wds. |
| 44% | NOVEMBERRAIN | 12 | 1992 Guns N' Roses song with a weather word in the title (2 wds.) |
| 43% | ALTEREDCARBON | 13 | Dystopian sci-fi cyberpunk series popular on Netflix where a prisoner returns to life in a new body after 250 years with one chance to win freedom: 2 wds. |
| 41% | UGLYDELICIOUS | 13 | Netflix series with eight episodes, each focusing on a particular delicacy or culinary concept: 2 wds. |
| 41% | WINDOFCHANGE | 12 | 1991 Scorpions song with a weather word in the title (3 wds.) |
| 41% | DONLARSEN | 9 | Yankees pitcher who pitched a perfect game in the World Series on 10/8/56: 2 wds. |
| 41% | GETSHORTY | 9 | Epix series derived from a 1995 John Travolta film with the same title: 2 wds. |
| 41% | CURTSCHILLING | 13 | Red Sox pitcher who played in the 2004 World Series with a damaged ankle: 2 wds. |
| 41% | BATWOMAN | 8 | DC Comics superhero series on the CW with a flying mammal in the title |
| 41% | RICHARDCASTLE | 13 | Writer who was the title character in a 2009-2016 crime series: 2 wds. |
| 41% | DRNO | 4 | Villain with the title role in a 1962 movie that introduced 007: 2 wds. |
| 40% | ARIANAGRANDE | 12 | "7 Rings" singer who reimagined 18-Across in a 2024 hit with the same title: 2 wds. |
| 40% | DOLLYPARTONS | 12 | With 27-Across, Netflix anthology series dramatizing the stories behind some of a singer's songs: 2 wds. |
| 40% | AMERICANGODS | 12 | A 2017 TV series that premiered on Starz, in which Gillian Anderson plays the new goddess Media: 2 wds. |
| 40% | THEPINK | 7 | With 50-Across, comedy film series in which Peter Sellers originated the role of a bumbling detective: 2 wds. |
| 40% | WHITERABBIT | 11 | 1967 hit for Jefferson Airplane with a sign of the Chinese zodiac in its title: 2 wds. |
| 39% | DANCEMONKEY | 11 | 2019 hit for Tones and I with a sign of the Chinese zodiac in its title: 2 wds. |
| 39% | CHARLIEDAY | 10 | He plays a character with the same first name (and the last name Kelly) on "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia": 2 wds. |
| 39% | MORRISCHESTNUT | 14 | Actor who plays the title character of 47-Across in a CBS series that premiered in January: 2 wds. |
| 38% | STRANGERTHINGS | 14 | Netflix horror series set in the 1980s: 2 wds. |
| 38% | DONNIEWAHLBERG | 14 | New Kids on the Block singer who played Detective Danny Reagan on 48-Across and will reprise the role in a new series in 2025 (2 wds.) |
| 38% | LOVEYOU | 7 | "P.S. I ___," film based on a novel which shares its title with a 1962 song by The Beatles: 2 wds. |
| 38% | THEGOOD | 7 | "___ Place," a new fantasy-comedy NBC series about a girl in the afterlife, that started premiering on September 19: 2 wds. |