| 100% | BADA | 4 | ___ Bing! (television hangout loosely based on the strip club Wiggles) |
| 41% | TROY | 4 | 2004 historical film loosely based on the Iliad |
| 41% | IGOR | 4 | 2008 animated movie loosely based on the Frankenstein story |
| 41% | RENT | 4 | Broadway musical loosely based on the opera "La Bohème" |
| 41% | RENT | 4 | 1990s musical loosely based on the opera "La Bohème" |
| 40% | RENT | 4 | Musical that was loosely based on the opera "La Bohème" |
| 40% | WESTEROS | 8 | “Game of Thrones” region loosely based on the British Isles |
| 39% | GANG | 4 | "Gridiron ___," 2006 biographical sports film loosely based on the team Kilpatrick Mustangs |
| 39% | SATYAGRAHA | 10 | 1979 opera by Philip Glass loosely based on the life of Mahatma Gandhi |
| 38% | TROY | 4 | Brad Pitt's epic period war film loosely based on the decade-long Trojan War |
| 36% | TROY | 4 | Brad Pitt movie loosely based on "The Iliad" |
| 34% | SPINNINGSILVER | 14 | 2019 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel winner by 27-Across that's loosely based on the tale of "Rumpelstiltskin" (2 wds.) |
| 34% | ART | 3 | "O Brother, Where ___ Thou?" 2000 comedy film loosely based on "The Odyssey" |
| 34% | EASYA | 5 | Comedy starring Emma Stone loosely based on "The Scarlet Letter" (2 wds.) |
| 33% | GYPSY | 5 | Actress LuPone's second Tony Award was for this 2008 Broadway revival of a musical loosely based on the memoirs of a striptease artist |
| 33% | EASYA | 5 | 2010 Emma Stone comedy film loosely based on "The Scarlet Letter" (2 wds.) |
| 33% | LIAR | 4 | "Big Fat ___" (Frankie Muniz film loosely based on "The Boy Who Cried Wolf") |
| 33% | SENARY | 6 | Based on the number six |
| 33% | VIGESIMAL | 9 | Based on the number twenty |
| 32% | INKS | 4 | Works on the strip? |
| 32% | CASINO | 6 | Structure on The Strip |
| 32% | NEONLIGHT | 9 | Glow on The Strip |
| 32% | DONNIEBRASCO | 12 | Mike Newell's crime film loosely based on FBI agent Joseph D. Pistone who infiltrated the Mafia Bonanno crime family: 2 wds. |
| 32% | SCAR | 4 | "The Lion King" antagonist loosely based on King Claudius |
| 32% | BALLYS | 6 | Paris neighbor, on the Strip |
| 32% | DREAMGIRLS | 10 | Musical based on the Supremes |
| 32% | LUNAR | 5 | Calendar based on the moon |
| 32% | ISLAM | 5 | Religion based on the Koran |
| 32% | ISLAM | 5 | Religion based on the Quran |
| 32% | HOROSCOPE | 9 | Prediction based on the zodiac |