| 100% | MODERNTIMES | 11 | 1936 comedy starring 15-/49-Across as a factory worker struggling in the industrialized world: 2 wds. |
| 47% | THEGOLDRUSH | 11 | 1925 comedy starring 15-/49-Across as a prospector caught in a Klondike blizzard: 3 wds. |
| 37% | TROPICTHUNDER | 13 | 2008 comedy starring Jack Black as an actor forced to survive in a jungle: 2 wds. |
| 36% | THEAWFULTRUTH | 13 | 1937 comedy starring Cary Grant and Irene Dunne as a couple in the midst of divorce proceedings: 3 wds. |
| 36% | NIGHTSCHOOL | 11 | Comedy film starring 15-Across and 45-Across as dropouts working toward a GED (2 wds.) |
| 33% | SUDDENLYSUSAN | 13 | 1996-2000 sitcom starring 15-Across as a magazine writer in San Francisco: 2 wds. |
| 33% | EASYA | 5 | 2010 comedy starring Emma Stone as a high-schooler: 2 wds. |
| 33% | ALEXMORGAN | 10 | US soccer star who scored a goal against Colombia in the 2015 World Cup: 2 wds. |
| 33% | THEWITCHES | 10 | With 40-Across, 1987 movie starring 15-Across as a coven member: 2 wds. |
| 33% | ANNEHECHE | 9 | Actress who starred in the 1998 remake of 49-Across: 2 wds. |
| 33% | THEHANGOVER | 11 | 2009 hit comedy starring 15-Across: 2 wds. |
| 32% | UNCLEBUCK | 9 | 1989 John Hughes comedy starring John Candy as a crude babysitter: 2 wds. |
| 32% | WILLSMITH | 9 | Actor who starred as a fictionalized version of himself in the hit TV series "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air": 2 wds. |
| 32% | MARRIEDWITH | 11 | With 44-Across, long-running Fox comedy starring Christina Applegate as a sex-obsessed teenager: 2 wds. |
| 32% | LEATHERHEADS | 12 | 2008 comedy starring George Clooney as the captain of a struggling pro football team |
| 32% | EVANALMIGHTY | 12 | 2007 comedy starring Steve Carell as a congressman who builds an ark: 2 wds. |
| 32% | SHALLOWHAL | 10 | 2001 comedy starring Jack Black as a man hypnotized to see people's inner beauty: 2 wds. |
| 32% | NACHOLIBRE | 10 | 2006 comedy starring Jack Black as a monk who moonlights as a wrestler: 2 wds. |
| 32% | RICHIERICH | 10 | A 1994 film based on the comics of the same name, starring Macaulay Culkin (birthday today) as the world's wealthiest kid: 2 wds. |
| 32% | HUNGERGAMES | 11 | Futuristic 2012 blockbuster starring 15-/48-Across as Katniss Everdeen, with "The": 2 wds. |
| 32% | PETERBENCHLEY | 13 | Author of "Jaws" who cameoed as a reporter in the 1975 film adaptation: 2 wds. |
| 32% | CARRIEPRESTON | 13 | "The Good Wife" actress who stars in the spin-off "Elsbeth" as a lawyer catching criminals: 2 wds. |
| 31% | POTALAPALACE | 12 | Iconic dzong fortress in the city of Lhasa which is a World Heritage Site since 1994: 2 wds. |
| 31% | NIGHTSHIFT | 10 | 1982 comedy directed by Ron Howard, starring Michael Keaton as a morgue worker: 2 wds. |
| 31% | ENSIGNPULVER | 12 | Comedy starring Robert Walker Jr. as a junior naval officer (2 wds.) |
| 31% | UPALLNIGHT | 10 | NBC sitcom starring 15-/50-Across as a new mom: 3 wds. |
| 31% | GROWNUPS | 8 | 2010 comedy starring Adam Sandler (birthday today) about the reunion of five friends for a holiday weekend: 2 wds. |
| 30% | ANALYZETHIS | 11 | Comedy film starring 42-Across as psychiatrist who treats a mob boss (2 wds.) |
| 30% | HALLOWEENKILLS | 14 | Twelfth installment in the horror franchise featuring 26-Across that began with a 1978 film starring 12-Across (2 wds.) |
| 30% | RAYDONOVAN | 10 | A crime drama in which Liev Schreiber stars as the titular character: 2 wds. |