| 100% | MEANSTREAK | 10 | 2014 Sandra Brown bestseller about a doctor who goes missing in the mountain wilderness: 2 wds. |
| 46% | MEANSTREAK | 10 | Sandra Brown mystery about a doctor/marathon runner who disappears in North Carolina (2 wds.) |
| 36% | THICKASTHIEVES | 14 | 2020 Sandra Brown bestseller about a woman who investigates her father's disappearance: 3 wds. |
| 34% | EMMATHOMPSON | 12 | "Howards End" actress who returns as a doctor in "Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy": 2 wds. |
| 32% | STEVEAUSTIN | 11 | Retired WWE wrestler who goes by the nickname "Stone Cold" and has acted in a number of films, most notably "The Expendables": 2 wds. |
| 32% | LASTSONG | 8 | Novel by Nicholas Sparks about a 17 year old teen who is sent to stay with her father in the summer, "The ___": 2 wds. |
| 32% | ELTONJOHN | 9 | "Candle in the Wind" singer who said of his upcoming farewell tour, "It's a way of going out with a bang": 2 wds. |
| 32% | BLINDTIGER | 10 | 2021 Sandra Brown bestseller set in Texas during Prohibition: 2 wds. |
| 32% | RODDYPIPER | 10 | Rowdy ___, a wrestler who went on to play the lead role in the cult classic "They Live": 2 wds. |
| 30% | TROPICTHUNDER | 13 | 2008 movie about a group of actors who fight in a real-life war: 2 wds. |
| 30% | MAGGIESMITH | 11 | Actress in the Harry Potter movies who was royally dubbed a dame in 1990: 2 wds. |
| 30% | THEPANTHER | 10 | 2012 Nelson DeMille bestseller about finding a mastermind of the USS Cole bombing: 2 wds. |
| 30% | SELENAGOMEZ | 11 | "Only Murders in the Building" actress who received a kidney transplant in 2017: 2 wds. |
| 29% | HELLODARKNESS | 13 | Sandra Brown thriller about a late-night radio host trying to prevent a murder (2 wds.) |
| 29% | NEMO | 4 | Fish who went missing in the 2003 movie that preceded 18-Across |
| 29% | ELEANORRIGBY | 12 | Beatles song about a woman who "lives in a dream": 2 wds. |
| 29% | THEGOLDBERGS | 12 | ABC sitcom about a geeky boy growing up in the 1980s: 2 wds. |
| 29% | STAGEMOM | 8 | Parent who hangs out in the wings of a theater, perhaps: 2 wds. |
| 29% | HARLEYQUINN | 11 | DC supervillain who goes by the name of Harleen Frances Quinzel, and appears in "Suicide Squad": 2 wds. |
| 29% | PRINCESSPEACH | 13 | Royal character in the Super Mario games who wears a pink dress with a gold crown: 2 wds. |
| 28% | BEFORESUNRISE | 13 | 1995 Ethan Hawke starrer romantic drama film about a man and woman who spend an evening in Vienna: 2 wds. |
| 28% | WONDERWOMAN | 11 | DC superheroine who goes by the name of Princess Diana, and appears in "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice": 2 wds. |
| 28% | MRSDALLOWAY | 11 | Virginia Woolf's novel about a day in the life of a woman in England post World War I: 2 wds. |
| 28% | ROUGHNIGHT | 10 | Scarlett Johansson (birthday today) film about four friends who get in trouble when a bachelorette party goes wrong: 2 wds. |
| 28% | DEBRAMESSING | 12 | Actress who played 17a in the series for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award: 2 wds. |
| 28% | AMANCALLEDOVE | 13 | 2014 best-selling novel about a neighborhood curmudgeon who befriends the family next door: 4 wds. |
| 27% | DEIONSANDERS | 12 | A cornerback who played for the Baltimore Ravens, who was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2011: 2 wds |
| 27% | HARTOF | 6 | __ Dixie, TV show about a doctor in the countryside |
| 27% | STEVEMARTIN | 11 | "Only Murders in the Building" actor who shares his surname with a guitar maker (2 wds.) |
| 27% | NIGHTCOURT | 10 | 1984-1992 sitcom about a judge who presided over the evening shift: 2 wds. |