| 100% | JKSIMMONS | 9 | "Whiplash" Oscar winner who played 15-Across and 30-Across (3 wds.) |
| 58% | LISAANNWALTER | 13 | "Bruce Almighty" actress who plays a teacher and ally of 15-Across: 3 wds. |
| 58% | MAHERSHALAALI | 13 | Two-time Best Supporting Actor Oscar winner who plays Wayne Hayes in season 3 of 43-Across (2 wds.) |
| 56% | TOBIASMENZIES | 13 | 15-Across and 30-Across actor who won an Emmy for playing Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, on "The Crown" (2 wds.) |
| 55% | SANDRABULLOCK | 13 | "The Blind Side" Best Actress Oscar winner who starred in 15-Across, 24-Across, 31-Across, and 40-Across (2 wds.) |
| 55% | MARLONBRANDO | 12 | 1972 Best Actor Oscar winner who played 21-Across: 2 wds. |
| 54% | NICOLASCAGE | 11 | "Leaving Las Vegas" Oscar winner who plays twin brothers Charlie and Donald Kaufman in "Adaptation" (2 wds.) |
| 53% | MERYLSTREEP | 11 | "The Iron Lady" Oscar winner who plays Aunt March in 36-Across (2 wds.) |
| 53% | GENEHACKMAN | 11 | "The French Connection" and "Unforgiven" Oscar winner who played the minister Frank Scott in "The Poseidon Adventure" (2 wds.) |
| 53% | JACKPALANCE | 11 | "City Slickers" Oscar winner who plays twin brothers Curly and Duke Washburn in the "City Slickers" films (2 wds.) |
| 53% | BEATRIXPOTTER | 13 | British writer and illustrator who created 15-Across and 30-Across (2 wds.) |
| 53% | JAMIEFOXX | 9 | Oscar winner who plays jazz pianist Joe Gardner in 1-Across (2 wds.) |
| 53% | CHRISTIANBALE | 13 | "The Fighter" Oscar winner who plays (spoiler alert!) twin brothers Alfred Borden and Bernard Fallon in "The Prestige" (2 wds.) |
| 53% | ANTHONYHOPKINS | 14 | "The Silence of the Lambs" and "The Father" Best Actor Oscar winner who plays Odin in the MCU (2 wds.) |
| 52% | JULIANNEMOORE | 13 | "Still Alice" Oscar winner who plays 50-Across in a 2020 biopic (2 wds.) |
| 52% | WILLIAMHURT | 11 | "Kiss of the Spider Woman" Oscar winner and star of 15-Across and 43-Across who turns 70 tomorrow (2 wds.) |
| 51% | HILARYSWANK | 11 | Two-time Best Actress Oscar winner who plays Bridget in 46-Across (2 wds.) |
| 51% | JKSIMMONS | 9 | "Whiplash" Oscar winner who voices "Yellow" in M&M candy commercials: 3 wds. |
| 51% | TIMOTHYHUTTON | 13 | "Ordinary People" Oscar winner who plays the father of 50-Across in a 2020 biopic (2 wds.) |
| 51% | DIANNEWIEST | 11 | "Bullets Over Broadway" Oscar winner who plays the mother on 29-/32-Across: 2 wds. |
| 51% | ROBERTDENIRO | 12 | Actor who played 15-Across in the 1987 film "The Untouchables": 3 wds. |
| 50% | MICHAELJFOX | 11 | Actor who played 17-Across and 28-/29-Across: 3 wds. |
| 50% | JONVOIGHT | 9 | "Coming Home" Oscar winner who played Ed Gentry in "Deliverance" (2 wds.) |
| 50% | BRIELARSON | 10 | "Room" Oscar winner who plays Captain Marvel in Marvel films (2 wds.) |
| 50% | SARANDON | 8 | US activist and Oscar winner who played Louise |
| 50% | SAMROCKWELL | 11 | "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" Oscar winner who played the title choreographer in 45-Across: 2 wds. |
| 50% | LAURADERN | 9 | "Marriage Story" Oscar winner who wrote 30-Across with her mother, 45-Across (2 wds.) |
| 49% | DAVIDMCCALLUM | 13 | Actor who currently plays 15-Across and once played 50-Across: 2 wds. |
| 49% | OLYMPIADUKAKIS | 14 | "Moonstruck" Oscar winner who starred in 16-Across and 34-Across (2 wds.) |
| 49% | NATALIEPORTMAN | 14 | "Black Swan" Oscar winner who plays Jane Foster in Marvel films (2 wds.) |