| 100% | NOLAN | 5 | Director Christopher whose new movie "Tenet" opens in August |
| 38% | WES | 3 | Director Anderson whose voice was featured in the animated movie "Sing" |
| 31% | POPUP | 5 | Ad that opens in a new window: Hyph. |
| 30% | IVAN | 4 | Movie director Reitman who died in 2022 |
| 30% | LES | 3 | News director Nessman of "WKRP in Cincinnati" |
| 29% | ELI | 3 | Director Roth whose first movie was 2003's "Cabin Fever" |
| 29% | TENET | 5 | Christopher Nolan movie whose protagonist is named Protagonist |
| 29% | CLUE | 4 | Movie in which Christopher Lloyd played Professor Plum |
| 29% | CHEN | 4 | “Autumn in New York” director Joan |
| 29% | STEELE | 6 | British spy Christopher in 2016 news |
| 29% | NESSMAN | 7 | Les ___, "WKRP in Cincinnati" news director |
| 29% | LES | 3 | ___ Nessman ("WKRP in Cincinnati" news director) |
| 29% | NESSMAN | 7 | "WKRP in Cincinnati" news director Les ___ |
| 29% | LES | 3 | "WKRP in Cincinnati" news director Nessman |
| 29% | KARLBOHM | 8 | Austrian conductor whose New York Metropolitan Opera debut was in 1957 |
| 29% | ABBA | 4 | Band whose new album "Voyage" is their first in 40 years |
| 29% | REEVE | 5 | Christopher ___ who played Superman in "Superman: The Movie"(1978) |
| 28% | WELDED | 6 | Eugene O'Neill stage play which opened in New York in 1924 |
| 28% | INTERNATIONAL | 13 | Subtitle of the new "Men in Black" movie |
| 28% | FORCE | 5 | It "awakens" in the new Star Wars movie |
| 28% | XXXXX | 5 | Lindsay seen in the new "Mean Girls" movie |
| 28% | EDIT | 4 | Make cuts in a movie or news story |
| 28% | TUT | 3 | Whose tomb was opened in 1923 |
| 28% | PETERRABBIT | 11 | New movie about a bunny, based on stories written in early 1900s England: 2 wds. |
| 28% | NOLAN | 5 | "Tenet" director Christopher |
| 28% | DOMINGO | 7 | Placido —, Spanish tenor and conductor whose New York singing debut was in 1965 |
| 28% | REEVE | 5 | Christopher who played Superman in four movies from 1978 to 1987 |
| 28% | METS | 4 | New York team whose last World Series appearance was in 2000 |
| 28% | WES | 3 | Director Anderson who's worked with Bill Murray in nine movies |
| 27% | BROOKLYN | 8 | 2015 Saoirse Ronan movie set in 1950s New York |