| 100% | HOOKSHOTS | 9 | Basketball plays in which players’ arms make an arced movement |
| 36% | DARTS | 5 | Game in which players play one at a time |
| 36% | SPEEDTHEPL | 10 | Mamet play in which Madonna made her Broadway debut |
| 36% | DROPADIME | 9 | Make an assist in basketball without looking |
| 36% | CALICO | 6 | 58-Down in which players make quilts to attract cats |
| 35% | BADMINTON | 9 | Sport played with a shuttlecock where players hit it back and forth in an attempt to make the other side miss |
| 34% | ELEANORRIGBY | 12 | Beatles song in which no Beatle plays an instrument |
| 34% | RAINMAN | 7 | Film in which actor Hoffman plays an autistic genius |
| 34% | HER | 3 | Movie in which Scarlett Johansson plays an operating system |
| 34% | BIG | 3 | Film in which Tom Hanks plays an oversized floor keyboard |
| 34% | NEWS | 4 | "Broadcast ___" (1987 movie in which William Hurt plays an anchorman) |
| 33% | CHEF | 4 | 2014 film in which Dustin Hoffman plays an uncreative restaurant owner |
| 33% | PHOTOKINESIS | 12 | Movement made by an organism in response to light |
| 33% | ARMAGEDDON | 10 | 1998 disaster movie in which Steve Buscemi plays an astronaut nicknamed Rockhound |
| 33% | TRUEDETECTIVE | 13 | HBO TV series in which Matthew McConaughey plays an investigator: 2 wds. |
| 33% | EDIE | 4 | Movie in which Sheila Hancock plays an 83-year-old mountain climber |
| 33% | THEREADER | 9 | 2008 movie in which Kate Winslet plays an illiterate woman: 2 wds. |
| 33% | MISERY | 6 | Movie in which Kathy Bates played a deranged fan of an author |
| 33% | THEHURRICANE | 12 | 1999 film in which Denzel Washington played an imprisoned boxer: 2 wds. |
| 33% | PARENTHOOD | 10 | 1989 ensemble family comedy in which Rick Moranis played an obsessive father |
| 33% | REACTOR | 7 | An apparatus in which nuclear fission is made |
| 32% | HER | 3 | 2013 film in which Scarlett Johansson plays the voice of an operating system |
| 32% | DONTLOOKUP | 10 | 2021 black comedy in which Leonardo DiCaprio plays an astronomy professor: 3 wds. |
| 32% | STEVEJOBS | 9 | 2015 movie in which Kate Winslet plays an Apple marketing executive: 2 wds. |
| 32% | THENEWSROOM | 11 | 2012-2014 HBO drama in which Olivia Munn played an economist: 2 wds. |
| 32% | ROTATES | 7 | Shifts over to guard an open player, in basketball |
| 32% | PHILADELPHIA | 12 | 1993 film in which Denzel Washington played a lawyer in an AIDS discrimination case |
| 32% | CRIMINALMINDS | 13 | Long-running CBS drama in which 39-Across played an FBI agent: 2 wds. |
| 32% | WHATWOMENWANT | 13 | 2000 romantic fantasy in which 9-/53-Across played an ad executive: 3 wds. |
| 32% | DESIGNINGWOMEN | 14 | 1986-1993 TV series in which Annie Potts played an interior decorator: 2 wds. |