| 100% | ELLAENCHANTED | 13 | 52-Across plays a giantess in this 2004 romantic comedy starring Anne Hathaway: 2 wds. |
| 43% | ELLAENCHANTED | 13 | 2004 film in which Anne Hathaway plays a girl under a spell: 2 wds. |
| 39% | THENOTEBOOK | 11 | 2004 romantic drama starring 18-Across and 32-Across that was adapted as a Broadway musical in 2024 (2 wds.) |
| 38% | THENOTEBOOK | 11 | 2004 romantic drama starring 13-Across and based on a Nicholas Sparks novel: 2 wds. |
| 37% | THEGRADUATE | 11 | 1967 romantic comedy film starring Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft based on a Charles Webb novel of the same name: 2 wds. |
| 36% | MODERNTIMES | 11 | 1936 comedy starring 15-/49-Across as a factory worker struggling in the industrialized world: 2 wds. |
| 35% | WARMBODIES | 10 | A 2013 paranormal romantic comedy starring Nicholas Hoult - whose birthday it is today - as a zombie who falls in love with a human: 2 wds. |
| 35% | HOWTO | 5 | "___ Lose a Guy in 10 Days," 2003 romantic comedy film starring Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey: 2 wds. |
| 35% | BECOMINGJANE | 12 | 2007 biographical romantic drama starring Anne Hathaway and James McAvoy: 2 wds. |
| 34% | THEAPARTMENT | 12 | 1960 romantic comedy in which Jack Lemmon played Bud Baxter opposite Shirley MacLaine: 2 wds. |
| 33% | WEDDINGSINGER | 13 | With "The," Adam Sandler romantic comedy starring 33-Across: 2 wds. |
| 33% | TROPICTHUNDER | 13 | 2008 comedy starring Jack Black as an actor forced to survive in a jungle: 2 wds. |
| 33% | VICKYCRISTINA | 13 | "___ Barcelona," a 2008 romantic comedy-drama in which Scarlett Johansson stars alongside Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem: 2 wds. |
| 33% | LARRYCROWNE | 11 | Title role played by Tom Hanks in a 2011 romantic comedy: 2 wds. |
| 33% | FRIENDSWITH | 11 | "___ Benefits," 2011 romantic comedy film that starred Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis in the lead roles: 2 wds. |
| 33% | GENEKELLY | 9 | "Brigadoon" actor who played a silent film star moving into talkies in "Singin' in the Rain": 2 wds. |
| 32% | ANYTHINGGOES | 12 | Actress LuPone played a nightclub singer Reno Sweeney in this 1987 Broadway revival of a 1934 musical: 2 wds. |
| 32% | JULIEANDREWS | 12 | She played Anne Hathaway's grandmother in the "Princess Diaries" films: 2 wds. |
| 32% | TROPICTHUNDER | 13 | A comedy starring Ben Stiller and Robert Downey Jr., in which Tom Cruise made a cameo: 2 wds. |
| 31% | GREYSANATOMY | 12 | Ellen Pompeo stars in this ABC medical drama set in a Seattle hospital: 2 wds. |
| 31% | CHRISEVANS | 10 | "Avengers: Endgame" actor who plays a cult leader in 15-Across: 2 wds. |
| 31% | LOVEACTUALLY | 12 | 2003 holiday romantic comedy with Martin Freeman as a stand-in actor: 2 wds. |
| 31% | ZACEFRON | 8 | Actor who plays a protégé of 15-Across in "The Greatest Showman": 2 wds. |
| 31% | SANDRABULLOCK | 13 | "The Blind Side" actress who played a crossword constructor in 33-Across: 2 wds. |
| 31% | KATHYBATES | 10 | Actress who plays a marijuana dispensary owner in the new Netflix comedy "Disjointed": 2 wds. |
| 31% | KITCONNOR | 9 | "Heartstopper" star who plays a Navy SEAL in the 2025 drama "Warfare": 2 wds. |
| 31% | GERARDBUTLER | 12 | "300" star who plays a Secret Service agent in "London Has Fallen": 2 wds. |
| 31% | LESMISERABLES | 13 | 2012 epic musical starring Anne Hathaway and Hugh Jackman: 2 wds. |
| 30% | RUNAWAYBRIDE | 12 | 1999 romantic comedy starring Julia Roberts and Richard Gere: 2 wds. |
| 30% | TOOTHFAIRY | 10 | A 2010 comedy film starring Dwayne Johnson in which Seth MacFarlane played a character named Ziggy: 2 wds. |