| 100% | TORN | 4 | Actor Rip whose last name means "ripped" |
| 61% | BEAU | 4 | Actor Bridges whose first name means "handsome" in French |
| 61% | RIP | 3 | Actor Torn, whose first name means "tear" |
| 61% | BEAN | 4 | Actor Sean whose last name doesn't rhyme with "Sean" |
| 59% | BEAU | 4 | Actor Bridges whose first name can mean "boyfriend" |
| 57% | ALDA | 4 | Actor whose last name has three letters of his first |
| 57% | ANDERSONCOOPER | 14 | "360°" host whose last name means "a person who makes barrels": 2 wds. |
| 56% | CAINE | 5 | Batman Begins actor Michael whose last name sounds like an accessory for the Penguin |
| 55% | DAY | 3 | Well-known singer and actor whose last name was really Kappelhoff |
| 53% | JEREMYIRONS | 11 | "Reversal of Fortune" actor whose last name is a golf term: 2 wds. |
| 53% | JOAQUINPHOENIX | 14 | "Joker" Oscar-winning actor whose last name is a city in Arizona (2 wds.) |
| 52% | LOUISEFLETCHER | 14 | "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" actress whose last name means "a person who makes arrows": 2 wds. |
| 52% | KARENCARPENTER | 14 | "We've Only Just Begun" singer whose last name means "a person who makes things from wood": 2 wds. |
| 52% | SEAN | 4 | Actor Bean, whose first name looks like it rhymes with his last, but doesn't |
| 52% | JEREMYRENNER | 12 | "The Avengers" actor whose last name is spelled the same forward and backward: 2 wds. |
| 52% | SEANBEAN | 8 | Actor whose first and last names look like they rhyme, but don't |
| 50% | ALDA | 4 | Actor whose last name is a 41-Down of his first name, after a D is changed to an N |
| 49% | ALDA | 4 | Actor whose four-letter first name shares three letters with his last |
| 49% | JACKBLACK | 9 | "King Kong" and "School of Rock" actor whose first and last names rhyme: 2 wds. |
| 49% | ALDA | 4 | Multi-Emmy-winning actor whose first and last names start with the same two letters |
| 46% | VIN | 3 | Actor Diesel whose real name is Mark Sinclair |
| 45% | ACOSTA | 6 | Spanish last name meaning beach resident |
| 45% | DORA | 4 | Explorer whose last name is Márquez |
| 45% | KEN | 3 | Doll whose last name is Carson |
| 45% | RHINO | 5 | Animal whose full name means "nose horn" |
| 45% | HIPPO | 5 | Animal whose full name means "river horse" |
| 45% | FERRET | 6 | Mammal whose Latin name means little thief |
| 45% | ADELE | 5 | British singer whose last name is Adkins |
| 45% | ADELE | 5 | "Skyfall" singer whose last name is Adkins |
| 45% | MADONNA | 7 | "Vogue" singer whose last name is Ciccone |