| 100% | STEPS | 5 | 1935 Hitchcock thriller, with "The" |
| 63% | PSYCHO | 6 | Hitchcock thriller with a famous shower scene |
| 58% | THECAR | 6 | 1977 James Brolin thriller with the tagline "What EVIL drives ..." |
| 57% | ENEMY | 5 | "Sleeping with the ___" (Julia Roberts thriller) |
| 57% | MISERY | 6 | 1990 thriller with the line “I’m your No. 1 fan” |
| 57% | SPEED | 5 | Sandra Bullock thriller with the tagline "Get ready for rush hour" |
| 56% | OLD | 3 | 2021 thriller with the tagline "It's only a matter of time" |
| 55% | PSYCHO | 6 | 1960 Alfred Hitchcock thriller set at the Bates Motel |
| 54% | THRILLER | 8 | The movie genre associated with Alfred Hitchcock |
| 54% | ALIENCOVENANT | 13 | 2017 sci-fi thriller with the tagline "Discover the Origin of Terror" (2 wds.) |
| 53% | DRAMA | 5 | “Life with the dull bits cut out,” per Alfred Hitchcock |
| 52% | CONAIR | 6 | Nineties action thriller with the tagline “They were deadly on the ground. Now they have wings” |
| 52% | ABYSS | 5 | 1989 underwater thriller, with "The" |
| 52% | CLIENT | 6 | John Grisham thriller, with "The" |
| 51% | TATTOO | 6 | The Girl with the Dragon __, hacker thriller book |
| 50% | FIRM | 4 | Grisham thriller, with "The" |
| 50% | NNW | 3 | Abbreviation for a Hitchcock thriller of 1959 with Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint |
| 49% | BIRDS | 5 | The —, 1963 Alfred Hitchcock film thriller starring Rod Taylor and Tippi Hedren |
| 48% | EDGE | 4 | 1988 Dick Francis thriller, with "The" |
| 48% | SCOTT | 5 | With 35-Across, lawyer who wrote the thrillers "Presumed Innocent" and "Personal Injuries" |
| 47% | IPCRESSFILE | 11 | 1965 Michael Caine spy thriller, with "The" |
| 47% | BIRDS | 5 | Hitchcock nail-biter with "The" |
| 46% | ABYSS | 5 | 1989 James Cameron sci-fi thriller, with "The" |
| 46% | STEPS | 5 | "The 39 ___," 1935 spy thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Robert Donat |
| 46% | ROPE | 4 | Hitchcock thriller |
| 46% | VERTIGO | 7 | Hitchcock thriller |
| 46% | PSYCHO | 6 | Hitchcock thriller |
| 45% | ITALIAN | 7 | The __ Job; heist thriller with Venice boat chase |
| 45% | TOLIVEANDDIEINLA | 16 | 1985 thriller with the tagline "A federal agent is dead. A killer is loose. And the City of Angels is about to explode." |
| 44% | SOTHAT | 6 | With the result |