| 100% | OURTOWN | 7 | ... bad / Thornton Wilder play set in Grover's Corners |
| 31% | PDT | 3 | Summer setting in S.F. |
| 29% | ASK | 3 | Bid's counterpart in stock trading |
| 29% | ROSEBOWL | 8 | New Year's Day football game played in Pasadena: 2 wds. |
| 28% | RACHELMCADAMS | 13 | "Doctor Strange" actress who plays the title character's mom in 33-/49-Across: 2 wds. |
| 28% | FIE | 3 | Disapproving cry in Shakespeare's play |
| 28% | HARD | 4 | It's often played in Congress |
| 28% | WALTERMATTHAU | 13 | "The Bad News Bears" actor who played the love interest of Barbra Streisand's character in 1969's "Hello, Dolly!": 2 wds. |
| 27% | ARIANA | 6 | She played Cat in Nickelodeon's Sam & Cat |
| 27% | CAINE | 5 | Michael who played Fagin in 2021's "Twist" |
| 27% | LETO | 4 | Jared who played Morbius in 2022's "Morbius" |
| 27% | ROOK | 4 | "Castle" in a chessboard's corner |
| 27% | THEBIRDCAGE | 11 | 1996 film comedy in which Dianne Wiest played a conservative senator's wife: 2 wds. |
| 27% | GEM | 3 | It's set in a setting |
| 27% | ROLE | 4 | Actor's part in a play |
| 27% | RICE | 4 | It's often wild in Minnesota |
| 27% | ANA | 3 | She's playing Marilyn in Blonde |
| 26% | RENE | 4 | Russo who plays Frigga in Marvel's "Thor" films |
| 26% | FAYE | 4 | She played Bonnie in 1967's "Bonnie and Clyde" |
| 26% | ETHANHAWKE | 10 | "Boyhood" actor who plays Clay in Netflix's "Leave the World Behind": 2 wds. |
| 26% | KATEMARA | 8 | She played Sue Storm in 2015's Fantastic Four |
| 26% | ACE | 3 | First card played in B.S. |
| 26% | BALLPIT | 7 | Installation in a children's play area |
| 26% | ERIC | 4 | ___ Dane who played Dr. Mark Sloan in "Grey's Anatomy" |
| 26% | BENAFFLECK | 10 | Actor who plays this universe's Batman in "The Flash": 2 wds. |
| 26% | IAN | 3 | He played Gus the Theater Cat in 2019's Cats |
| 26% | ABIE | 4 | Rose's love, in a 1922 play |
| 26% | WALT | 4 | Jesse's partner in "Breaking Bad" |
| 26% | FILMSPEED | 9 | Photographer's setting DETOUR: Come in handy |
| 26% | KATHLEENTURNER | 14 | She played romance novelist Joan Wilder in "Romancing the Stone": 2 wds. |