| 100% | SAUCE | 5 | "The Secret ___," 2021 Tori Anderson film whose name could be a cooking ingredient |
| 41% | SAUCE | 5 | "The Secret ___," 2021 Tori Anderson film |
| 41% | NEO | 3 | Film character whose real name is Thomas A. Anderson |
| 40% | BSIX | 4 | Vitamin whose name could be a bingo call |
| 40% | OMNI | 4 | International chain whose name can be a prefix |
| 37% | CHUCKPALAHNIUK | 14 | Writer whose novel "Fight Club" was adapted as a 1999 film of the same name (2 wds.) |
| 36% | IRAN | 4 | Country whose name can also be a full sentence |
| 36% | BADGER | 6 | Animal whose name can also be a verb meaning "nag" |
| 36% | APE | 3 | Animal whose name can also be a verb meaning "mimic" |
| 36% | ALASKA | 6 | Only U.S. state whose name can be typed on one row of a keyboard |
| 35% | RACEME | 6 | Flower cluster whose name can also be read as a challenge |
| 35% | AFTERYANG | 9 | 2021 Colin Farrell film whose title character is a robotic child |
| 35% | CHER | 4 | Singer/actress whose name can be found at the ends of 17-, 31-, and 43-Across |
| 35% | OREO | 4 | Treat whose name can be formed by concatenating a Cirque du Soleil show and a car |
| 35% | GRAHAM | 6 | With 35-Across, writer whose novel "The End of the Affair" was adapted as a 1999 film of the same name |
| 34% | TUNIS | 5 | World capital whose name can be formed by removing letters from the end of its country's name |
| 34% | BEN | 3 | With 22-Across, former senator whose name can be spelled using only the letters in NEBRASKA (his home state) |
| 34% | OLIVERREED | 10 | Actor whose first name is the title of a Best Picture he co-starred in, and whose last name is that film's director |
| 34% | SLAVE | 5 | "12 Years a ___," 2013 biographical period drama film adapted from the 1853 memoir of the same name, whose music was composed by Hans Zimmer |
| 34% | POM | 3 | Fruit drink whose name is a truncation of its main ingredient |
| 34% | KICKBALL | 8 | Game whose name is also a key step of the game |
| 34% | ONCE | 4 | Musical whose name is the number 11 in a foreign language |
| 34% | DRACO | 5 | Constellation whose name is the Latin term for a mythical beast |
| 34% | OKLAHOMA | 8 | State whose name is the title of a classic Broadway musical |
| 33% | DEUSEX | 6 | RPG whose name is derived from the name of a dramatic device |
| 33% | EMU | 3 | Bird whose name is also the initials of a school in Ypsilanti |
| 33% | CATS | 4 | Musical whose name is an anagram of the members of a musical |
| 33% | SXSW | 4 | Annual Austin event whose name is a play on a Hitchcock film, familiarly |
| 33% | ALT | 3 | ___-J (indie-rock band whose name is a keyboard shortcut for the symbol ∆) |
| 33% | CANDYMAN | 8 | 2021 sequel to a 1992 horror film with the same name |