| 100% | NATASHAROTHWELL | 15 | Actor in “Insecure,” “The White Lotus,” and “How to Die Alone” |
| 54% | JEFFREYWRIGHT | 13 | Actor in the 2021 movies "No Time to Die" and "The French Dispatch": 2 wds. |
| 52% | ROLLTHEDICE | 11 | Take a chance, and how to form the sequence in each set of circled letters |
| 51% | TOMHOLLANDER | 12 | "The White Lotus" actor who plays Truman Capote in "Feud: Capote vs. the Swans": 2 wds. |
| 50% | TAKEALETTER | 11 | Dictator's order, and how to make sense of the answers to the starred clues, in two ways |
| 48% | HOTANDCOLD | 10 | How emotions may blow, and a hint to the switches in the theme answers |
| 47% | DUOLINGO | 8 | App that might teach you how to say “I am eating bread and crying on the floor” in Norwegian |
| 46% | NICOLASCAGE | 11 | Actor who voices Grug in "The Croods" and Superman in "Teen Titans Go! To the Movies" (2 wds.) |
| 46% | HARE | 4 | Arctic ___, rabbit-like animal whose brown fur sheds and becomes white to camouflage in the snow |
| 45% | FRUITLESSLY | 11 | In vain ... or how to read the answers to 17-, 25-, 49- and 58-Across |
| 45% | WILLARNETT | 10 | Actor who voices Batman in "The Lego Batman Movie" and Slade in "Teen Titans Go! To the Movies" (2 wds.) |
| 45% | JONES | 5 | James Earl ___, actor and first African-American man to win the Tony Award in the Leading Actor category |
| 44% | THAIS | 5 | Some actors in season 3 of "The White Lotus" |
| 44% | JOEPESCI | 8 | Actor in Goodfellas, Home Alone and Raging Bull |
| 43% | ABEL | 4 | First person to die in the Bible |
| 43% | ABEL | 4 | First man to die in the Bible |
| 43% | HUGHGRANT | 9 | British actor in Paddington and The Undoing |
| 43% | SIR | 3 | How to address a male superior officer in the army |
| 43% | DUVALL | 6 | Robert, actor in The Godfather and Apocalypse Now |
| 43% | JEFFREYWRIGHT | 13 | "No Time to Die" actor who plays food writer Roebuck Wright in "The French Dispatch": 2 wds. |
| 42% | THEFIXISIN | 10 | Outburst on discovering a rigged game, and how to "correct" the circled letters |
| 42% | DROPIN | 6 | Stop by unannounced, and how to make the starred clues match their answers? |
| 42% | SEANHUGHES | 10 | Stand-up comedian and actor, author of novels It's What He Would've Wanted and The Detainees, who died in 2017 |
| 42% | ROW | 3 | How to go "gently down the stream," in a nursery rhyme |
| 42% | NICHOLSON | 9 | Actor in the Best Picture winners of 1975, 1983 and 2006 |
| 42% | WAYS | 4 | "A Million ___ to Die in the West" (2014 movie) |
| 42% | VINDIESEL | 9 | Muscular actor in The Fast and the Furious films |
| 42% | REYNOLDS | 8 | Ryan, actor in Deadpool and The Hitman's Bodyguard |
| 42% | DICAPRIO | 8 | Surname of an actor in Titanic and The Revenant |
| 42% | PACK | 4 | Rat ___, group of actors in the '40s and '50s |