| 100% | MODERNROMANCE | 13 | Aziz Ansari's 2015 book that is "an investigation" into love and technology: 2 wds. |
| 37% | OCTOBERSKY | 10 | 1999 movie that is an adaptation, and an anagram, of 20-Across: 2 wds. |
| 34% | THEZOMBIES | 10 | "She's Not There" band that will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame tomorrow: 2 wds. |
| 34% | ROALDDAHL | 9 | Writer of the children's books that the movies directed by 14-, 20-, and 36-Across were based on: 2 wds. |
| 33% | DEFLEPPARD | 10 | "Pour Some Sugar on Me" band that will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame tomorrow: 2 wds. |
| 33% | MASTEROFNONE | 12 | Aziz Ansari's Netflix series that was renewed for a second season: 3 wds. |
| 33% | HOTELFORDOGS | 12 | Lois Duncan children's book that was turned into a film in 2009: 3 wds. |
| 33% | UPTOWNFUNK | 10 | Mark Ronson song that was Billboard's top pop song of 2015: 2 wds. |
| 32% | RYEBREAD | 8 | Deli loaf that is an alternative to white: 2 wds. |
| 32% | NAKEDSUN | 8 | "The ___," 1957 sci-fi novel by Isaac Asimov that was adapted into an episode of the TV series "Out of the Unknown": 2 wds. |
| 31% | DREWBARRYMORE | 13 | Unexpected singer of "Way Back Into Love" in 2007's "Music and Lyrics" (with Hugh Grant): 2 wds. |
| 30% | STRIPTEASE | 10 | Novel by 44-Across that was made into a movie starring Demi Moore: 2 wds. |
| 29% | MOUSELEMUR | 10 | A species unique to Madagascar that is the world's smallest primate and one of the smallest mammals in the world: 2 wds. |
| 29% | BUCKISLAND | 10 | ___ Reef, in the Caribbean Sea that was made an official U.S. National Monument in 1961 by President John F. Kennedy: 2 wds. |
| 29% | AZTECRUINS | 10 | Historical site in New Mexico that was declared as a U.S. National Monument in 1923 and has Ancestral Puebloan structures: 2 wds. |
| 29% | COLDCASE | 8 | Police investigation that was never solved: 2 wds. |
| 29% | FAIRYTALES | 10 | Books that depict an imaginary tale with a moral lesson like Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol": 2 wds. |
| 29% | HIGHFIDELITY | 12 | 50-Across novel that was adapted into a feature film in 2000, a Broadway musical in 2006, and a TV series in 2020 (2 wds.) |
| 29% | TAMPABAY | 8 | ___ Mutiny, professional soccer team that was an active member of MLS from 1996 to 2001 but is now defunct: 2 wds. |
| 28% | THEDRY | 6 | Novel by Australian author Jane Harper that was adapted into a movie starring Eric Bana: 2 wds. |
| 28% | TRAVELINTHRU | 12 | 2005 Dolly Parton song written for the film "Transamerica" that was nominated for an Oscar: 2 wds. |
| 28% | LARRYDAVID | 10 | Brooklyn-born comedian who was an executive producer of 27-Across and 32/38-Across: 2 wds. |
| 28% | MEL | 3 | Brooks who wrote, “If I cut my finger, that’s tragedy. Comedy is if you walk into an open sewer and die” |
| 28% | DENNISLEHANE | 12 | Author of the 2001 novel "Mystic River" that was made into a 2003 Sean Penn film: 2 wds. |
| 28% | LOSEYOURSELF | 12 | Arguably Eminem's greatest hit, that was written for his biopic "8 Mile," that won an Academy Award for Best Original Song: 2 wds. |
| 28% | ALMOSTTHERE | 11 | "The Princess and the Frog" song that was nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Song of 2009: 2 wds. |
| 28% | SHUTTERISLAND | 13 | 2003 18-Across novel about a mental hospital that was made into a 2010 Leonardo DiCaprio film: 2 wds. |
| 28% | LEGALLYBLONDE | 13 | 2001 American comedy film starring Reese Witherspoon (birthday today) that was adapted from an Amanda Brown novel: 2 wds. |
| 28% | ICY | 3 | "___ Sparks" (Gwyn Hyman Rubio novel that was an Oprah's Book Club selection in 2001) |
| 28% | BORNTORUN | 9 | Bruce Springsteen's autobiography that was named after an iconic album and song of his, and was released in September 2016: 3 wds. |