| 100% | QUIZLADY | 8 | 2023 Hulu comedy starring 16-Across as the sister of a game show fanatic: 2 wds. |
| 41% | THEOTHERTWO | 11 | HBO Max comedy starring 16-Across and 28-Across about a family dealing with the sudden fame of a younger sibling (3 wds.) |
| 41% | MODERNTIMES | 11 | 1936 comedy starring 15-/49-Across as a factory worker struggling in the industrialized world: 2 wds. |
| 40% | SUZANNECOLLINS | 14 | "The Hunger Games" series novelist whose "The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes" was adapted as a 2023 film starring 19-Across and 42-Across (2 wds.) |
| 40% | PAINHUSTLERS | 12 | 2023 Netflix crime comedy with Catherine O'Hara as the mother of a woman marketing opioids: 2 wds. |
| 38% | 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. |
| 38% | JURYDUTY | 8 | 2023 Freevee comedy documentary about a fake court case starring James Marsden as himself: 2 wds. |
| 37% | THEAWFULTRUTH | 13 | 1937 comedy starring Cary Grant and Irene Dunne as a couple in the midst of divorce proceedings: 3 wds. |
| 37% | INLIVINGCOLOR | 13 | 1990s sketch comedy show featuring 45-Across as a member of The Fly Girls dance troupe (3 wds.) |
| 35% | JAMESFRANCO | 11 | "The Interview" star who was the subject of a Comedy Central Roast in 2013: 2 wds. |
| 35% | ROSEANNEBARR | 12 | 1990s sitcom star who was the subject of a Comedy Central Roast in 2012: 2 wds. |
| 35% | LEATHERHEADS | 12 | 2008 comedy starring George Clooney as the captain of a struggling pro football team |
| 35% | LOADUP | 6 | Pack, as the trunk of a car: 2 wds. |
| 35% | BENSTILLER | 10 | Host of a 1990s sketch comedy show who starred in and wrote both "Zoolander" movies (2 wds.) |
| 34% | CHARLIESHEEN | 12 | "Anger Management" star who was the honoree of a 2011 Comedy Central roast: 2 wds. |
| 34% | KILLINGEVE | 10 | BBC America series starring 16-Across as a British spy: 2 wds. |
| 34% | AGREESON | 8 | Mutually accepts, as the terms of a contract: 2 wds. |
| 34% | HUMANRACE | 9 | The people of Earth as a group: 2 wds. |
| 34% | CHRISHARRISON | 13 | Host of the game show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire": 2 wds. |
| 33% | THEBEAR | 7 | Hulu series starring Jeremy Allen White as a chef: 2 wds. |
| 33% | CITYLIGHTS | 10 | Charlie Chaplin movie that AFI lists as the #1 romantic comedy of all time: 2 wds. |
| 33% | EASYA | 5 | 2010 comedy starring Emma Stone as a high-schooler: 2 wds. |
| 32% | TRIEDON | 7 | Checked the fit of, as a dress: 2 wds. |
| 32% | MODERNFAMILY | 12 | A TV show about the Pritchett and Dunphy family, in which Sofia Vergara stars: 2 wds. |
| 32% | HOST | 4 | Star of a game show |
| 32% | AHARDDAYS | 9 | "___ Night," a musical comedy film starring the Beatles that won 31-Across an Academy Award for scoring of music: 3 wds. |
| 32% | MINORITYLEADER | 14 | Original title of a nonfiction work by 45-Across republished as "Lead from the Outside" (2 wds.) |
| 32% | NOTIT | 5 | Child's shout at the beginning of a game of tag: 2 wds. |
| 32% | ROSEANNEBARR | 12 | Title star of a 1990s sitcom who was the honoree of a 2012 Comedy Central roast: 2 wds. |
| 32% | HAPPYGILMORE | 12 | 1996 comedy starring Adam Sandler as a hockey player who takes up professional golf: 2 wds. |