| 100% | GRAZIANO | 8 | Boxing champ portrayed in the biopic "Somebody Up There Likes Me" |
| 53% | GRAZIANO | 8 | Rocky —, boxer whose story is told in 1956 biopic Somebody Up There Likes Me |
| 42% | SAL | 3 | "Somebody Up There Likes Me" actor Mineo |
| 36% | ELTON | 5 | Musician John portrayed in the biopic "Rocketman" |
| 36% | BOB | 3 | Singer Dylan played by Cate Blanchett in the biopic "I'm Not There" |
| 33% | AHOLE | 5 | "... like I need — in the head" |
| 33% | LIBERACE | 8 | Piano player portrayed in the music biopic "Behind the Candelabra" |
| 33% | GIA | 3 | Supermodel ___ Carangi, who Angelina Jolie portrayed in the 1998 biopic |
| 32% | LONG | 4 | Like the i in like |
| 32% | WHITNEYHOUSTON | 14 | Singer played by Naomi Ackie in the 2022 musical biopic "I Wanna Dance with Somebody" (2 wds.) |
| 31% | ONEEYED | 7 | Like many of the Minions in "Despicable Me" |
| 31% | EATEN | 5 | Like the pizza in a now-empty pizza box |
| 30% | AHOLE | 5 | "I need that like I need ___ in the head" |
| 30% | APPEARED | 8 | Showed up, like the fruits in this puzzle |
| 29% | ONEEYED | 7 | Like a cyclops or some of the Minions in "Despicable Me": Hyph. |
| 29% | PROAM | 5 | Like the tourney in which Happy Gilmore teams up with Bob Barker |
| 29% | HASIDIC | 7 | Like the community portrayed in Netflix's "Unorthodox" |
| 29% | JAMES | 5 | With 50-Across, soul singer played by Chadwick Boseman in the 2014 biopic "Get On Up" |
| 28% | LONG | 4 | Like the "i" in "like" |
| 28% | LOOP | 4 | "Keep me in the ___" ("I'd like to stay informed") |
| 28% | RISES | 5 | Goes up in the air, like a helium-filled balloon |
| 28% | DYLAN | 5 | Subject of the biopic "I'm Not There" |
| 28% | APT | 3 | Like the anagramming of A DECIMAL POINT to make I'M A DOT IN PLACE |
| 28% | RISE | 4 | Go up, like the sun in the morning |
| 27% | STEPS | 5 | There are 393 in the staircase going up the Statue of Liberty |
| 27% | ATBAT | 5 | In the box |
| 27% | ELTON | 5 | John depicted in the biopic "Rocketman" |
| 27% | EGO | 3 | Beyoncé song with the line "I talk like this 'cause I can back it up" |
| 27% | EGO | 3 | Beyonce song with the lyric "I talk like this 'cause I can back it up" |