| 100% | CLIO | 4 | Award for which 61-Down vie |
| 57% | OSCAR | 5 | Award for which 8-Down, surprisingly, has never been nominated |
| 51% | EDGAR | 5 | Award for 29 Down |
| 50% | EMMY | 4 | Award for which Ayo Edebiri has received four nominations |
| 50% | TEENCHOICE | 10 | Annual awards for which many adolescents vote |
| 49% | OBIE | 4 | Theater award for which Broadway shows are ineligible |
| 48% | EMMY | 4 | TV award for which 50-Across received seven nominations |
| 48% | EMMY | 4 | Primetime award for which Betty White has received 21 nominations |
| 45% | ROSEANNE | 8 | Sitcom for which Laurie Metcalf won three Emmy Awards |
| 44% | CUFFIT | 6 | Single for which Beyoncé won her thirty-first Grammy Award |
| 43% | REDS | 4 | Film for which Warren Beatty won an Academy Award for directing |
| 43% | BESS | 4 | Title role for which Audra McDonald won a 2012 Tony Award |
| 42% | THEBOOKTHIEF | 12 | 2013 film for which 46-Across won a Grammy Award (3 wds.) |
| 42% | THREEJUNES | 10 | Début novel for which Julia Glass won the 2002 National Book Award |
| 42% | BESTPICTURE | 11 | Award for 11-/40-Down |
| 42% | CIRCUS | 6 | "The ___," 1928 film for which Charlie Chaplin was nominated for an Academy Award |
| 42% | MYCOUSINVINNY | 13 | 1992 courtroom comedy for which 18-Across won an Academy Award: 3 wds. |
| 42% | TRU | 3 | Play for which Robert Morse won a Tony and a Drama Desk Award |
| 42% | PNIN | 4 | Novel for which Nabokov nabbed his first of seven National Book Award nominations |
| 41% | EXEC | 4 | 61-Down, for one |
| 41% | JOY | 3 | Jennifer Lawrence biographical film from 2015 for which she won a Golden Globe Award |
| 41% | SIDE | 4 | "The Blind ___," drama film starring Sandra Bullock for which she won an Academy Award |
| 41% | BIRD | 4 | "___ Box," thriller film starring Sandra Bullock for which she won an MTV Movie Award |
| 41% | GRAVITY | 7 | Sci-fi film starring Sandra Bullock for which she earned an Academy Award nomination |
| 41% | BEST | 4 | ___ Sound Editing, category for which "Mamma Mia!" won a Golden Reel Award in 2009 |
| 40% | THEWRESTLER | 11 | 2008 sports drama for which 18-Across was nominated for an Academy Award: 2 wds. |
| 40% | THEREADER | 9 | 2008 drama for which Kate Winslet won an Academy Award for Best Actress (2 wds.) |
| 40% | EAGELS | 6 | Jeanne ___, actress in "The Letter," for which she was posthumously nominated for an Academy Award |
| 40% | BOYSDONTCRY | 11 | 1999 film for which 46-Across won an Academy Award for Best Actress (3 wds.) |
| 40% | PRIDE | 5 | "___ & Prejudice," 2005 romance film starring Keira Knightley for which she earned an Academy Award nomination |