| 100% | INLIVINGCOLOR | 13 | 1990s sketch comedy show featuring 45-Across as a member of The Fly Girls dance troupe (3 wds.) |
| 35% | QUIZLADY | 8 | 2023 Hulu comedy starring 16-Across as the sister of a game show fanatic: 2 wds. |
| 34% | BENSTILLER | 10 | Host of a 1990s sketch comedy show who starred in and wrote both "Zoolander" movies (2 wds.) |
| 34% | SPORTSNIGHT | 11 | TV show featuring Robert Guillaume as the managing editor of a TV show (2 wds.) |
| 33% | DEXTERNEWBLOOD | 14 | Showtime drama featuring 45-Across as a serial killer (3 wds.) |
| 33% | SIXFEETUNDER | 12 | HBO drama featuring 45-Across as a funeral director (3 wds.) |
| 30% | LORENZOSOIL | 11 | 1992 film featuring 31-Across as the mother of a boy with a rare disease (2 wds.) |
| 30% | STORM | 5 | Ororo Munroe's alias as a member of the X-Men |
| 30% | MONSTERSINC | 11 | Animated film featuring 42-Across as the voice of a green, one-eyed scarer assistant named Mike Wazowski (2 wds.) |
| 29% | SAMMYDAVISJR | 12 | Dancer famous as the youngest member of the "Will Mastin Trio" and whose cover of "The Candy Man" became a number-one hit: 3 wds. |
| 29% | GHOSTFACEKILLAH | 15 | Rapper who came to prominence as a member of the Wu-Tang Clan |
| 29% | DIVERGENT | 9 | 2014 dystopian film starring Ansel Elgort as a member of the Erudite faction |
| 29% | SNL | 3 | Show featuring many alumni of L.A.'s Groundlings comedy troupe |
| 29% | SOFIATHEFIRST | 13 | Disney show featuring a princess of Enchancia (3 wds.) |
| 29% | ROSEANNEBARR | 12 | 1990s sitcom star who was the subject of a Comedy Central Roast in 2012: 2 wds. |
| 28% | MINORITYLEADER | 14 | Original title of a nonfiction work by 45-Across republished as "Lead from the Outside" (2 wds.) |
| 28% | ROSEANNEBARR | 12 | Title star of a 1990s sitcom who was the honoree of a 2012 Comedy Central roast: 2 wds. |
| 28% | CRIMESCENE | 10 | "CSI: ___," with 31-Across, the name of a TV show Liev Schreiber - whose birthday it is today - guest starred in as Michael Keppler: 2 wds. |
| 28% | INLIVINGCOLOR | 13 | 1990s sketch comedy show, or how you'll see the creatures in this puzzle |
| 28% | TODIEFOR | 8 | 1995 black comedy featuring Nicole Kidman as a murderous wife: 3 wds. |
| 28% | BIGBANGTHEORY | 13 | The CBS comedy series "Young Sheldon" was created as a spin-off prequel of the hit sitcom "The ___": 3 wds. |
| 28% | THEAWFULTRUTH | 13 | 1937 comedy starring Cary Grant and Irene Dunne as a couple in the midst of divorce proceedings: 3 wds. |
| 28% | BUFFALOBOB | 10 | Host of the show featuring 18-Across: 2 wds. |
| 28% | SCTV | 4 | Canadian sketch comedy show of the 1970s-'80s |
| 28% | WHITEHOUSEDOG | 13 | Barking member of the First Family: 3 wds. |
| 28% | SCARYSPICE | 10 | Member of a 1990s girl group |
| 28% | ROBINTHEDE | 10 | Creator/writer of the TV series "A Black Lady Sketch Show" (2 wds.) |
| 28% | IFEATINGCAKE | 12 | Part one of six of a quote from the TV show "Gilmore Girls," that any dessert-lover can relate to?: 3 wds. |
| 27% | JUSTICELEAGUE | 13 | 2017 film starring Ben Affleck as a member of a superhero squad: 2 wds. |
| 27% | BILLYMADISON | 12 | Adam Sandler comedy featuring a cameo by actor Steve Buscemi as the title character's former classmate (2 wds.) |