| 100% | NIVEN | 5 | Author Jennifer of 2015's "All the Bright Places", released as a Netflix film on February 28, 2020 |
| 30% | BRIDGEOFSPIES | 13 | 2015 film starring Tom Hanks which is about a lawyer who negotiates the release of a U.S. pilot: 3 wds. |
| 29% | RICHIERICH | 10 | A 1994 film based on the comics of the same name, starring Macaulay Culkin (birthday today) as the world's wealthiest kid: 2 wds. |
| 29% | PAULAHAWKINS | 12 | Author of "The Girl on the Train," a novel adapted into a film starring Emily Blunt (2 wds.) |
| 28% | NOMADLAND | 9 | Nonfiction work by 29-Across adapted as a 2020 film of the same name starring Frances McDormand directed by 15-Across |
| 28% | ALVIN | 5 | "___ and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip," 2015 animated film starring Jennifer Coolidge in a cameo as Ms. Price |
| 28% | SCUM | 4 | Film on the surface of a liquid |
| 28% | LEDGE | 5 | Pigeon's landing place on the side of a building |
| 27% | SUM | 3 | "The ___ of All Fears" (spy film based on a Tom Clancy novel) |
| 27% | MEZCO | 5 | ___ Toyz, company that released a Wednesday Doll based on the Netflix series, which may remind you of the "Annabelle" doll |
| 27% | MUSTSEE | 7 | Worth all the hype, as a film |
| 27% | UNHOOK | 6 | Release, as the end of a chain |
| 27% | SUM | 3 | "The ___ of All Fears" (2002 spy film based on a Tom Clancy novel) |
| 27% | FEARS | 5 | "The Sum of All ___" (Ben Affleck film based on a Tom Clancy novel) |
| 27% | JURASSICWORLD | 13 | 2015 sci-fi adventure film about a theme park of cloned dinosaurs, that is the fifth highest-grossing film of all time: 2 wds. |
| 27% | CHARPLIEN | 9 | Director with three films on A.F.I.'s list of 100 greatest movies, all of them silent |
| 27% | ALL | 3 | "___ the Bright Places" (2020 romance film) |
| 27% | PETERBENCHLEY | 13 | Author of "Jaws" who cameoed as a reporter in the 1975 film adaptation: 2 wds. |
| 26% | DREAMER | 7 | 2005 film based on the true story of a racehorse named Mariah's Storm |
| 26% | REMARQUE | 8 | Author of All Quiet on the Western Front |
| 26% | FRO | 3 | The opposite of to, as on a swing |
| 26% | CITY | 4 | "The Lost ___ of Z," adventure film starring Charlie Hunnam as an explorer on a jungle expedition |
| 26% | BLACK | 5 | "The ___ Stallion," 1979 adventure film based on a 1941 children's novel of the same name |
| 26% | PLAZA | 5 | "Eloise at the ___" (Disney film based on a series of Kay Thompson children's novels) |
| 26% | REMARQUE | 8 | Author of All Quiet On The Western Front, Erich __ |
| 26% | MARGIN | 6 | The blank area on all sides of a page |
| 26% | PRO | 3 | The opposite of a con, as on a list |
| 26% | LOS | 3 | ___ Angeles is a city in California famed as the center of the nation's film industry |
| 26% | EDNAOBRIEN | 10 | Author of novels The Country Girls and A Pagan Place |
| 26% | EDIT | 4 | Tighten, as the rough footage of a film |