| 100% | BARRYLEVINSON | 13 | Director of "Good Morning, Vietnam": 2 wds. |
| 58% | IVANREITMAN | 11 | Director of "Father's Day": 2 wds. |
| 58% | JOHNCARPENTER | 13 | Director of the first "Halloween": 2 wds. |
| 58% | ALFONSOCUARON | 13 | Director of "Gravity": 2 wds. |
| 57% | ALOT | 4 | "___ of good that would do": 2 wds. |
| 57% | ALOT | 4 | "___ of good that would do!": 2 wds. |
| 57% | SPIKELEE | 8 | Director of "Inside Man": 2 wds. |
| 57% | HAROLDRAMIS | 11 | Director of "Groundhog Day": 2 wds. |
| 57% | ROBERTREDFORD | 13 | Director of "Quiz Show": 2 wds. |
| 55% | DANNYDEVITO | 11 | Director of the 1996 film "Matilda": 2 wds. |
| 55% | SPIKELEE | 8 | Director of "Malcolm X" and "BlacKkKlansman": 2 wds. |
| 55% | MIKENICHOLS | 11 | New Hollywood director of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" who won the Best Director Oscar for his second film, "The Graduate": 2 wds. |
| 55% | GEORGELUCAS | 11 | Director of the film mentioned in 16a: 2 wds. |
| 55% | ALOT | 4 | "___ of good that would do me!": 2 wds. |
| 54% | ROBZOMBIE | 9 | Director of the 2007 remake of 15-Across: 2 wds. |
| 54% | DAVIDFINCHER | 12 | Director of "The Social Network" and "Gone Girl": 2 wds. |
| 54% | SPIKELEE | 8 | Director of "Chi-Raq" and "He Got Game": 2 wds. |
| 54% | WESANDERSON | 11 | Director of the 2009 film "Fantastic Mr. Fox" : 2 wds. |
| 54% | JASONREITMAN | 12 | Director of "Ghostbusters: Afterlife," whose father directed "Ghostbusters": 2 wds. |
| 54% | DOA | 3 | ___ world of good (be very beneficial): 2 wds. |
| 53% | JOHNCARPENTER | 13 | Director of the original 1978 version of 15-Across: 2 wds. |
| 53% | GRETAGERWIG | 11 | Director of 2017's "Lady Bird" and 17-Across: 2 wds. |
| 53% | AROLL | 5 | "I'm on ___" (spell of good luck): 2 wds. |
| 53% | FORESTWHITAKER | 14 | Actor who played Edward Garlick in "Good Morning, Vietnam": 2 wds. |
| 53% | ROBINWILLIAMS | 13 | Actor who played Adrian Cronauer in "Good Morning, Vietnam": 2 wds. |
| 53% | GARRYMARSHALL | 13 | Director of "Valentine's Day" and "New Year's Eve": 2 wds. |
| 53% | TIMBURTON | 9 | Director of the 2005 film "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory": 2 wds. |
| 53% | SOFIACOPPOLA | 12 | Director of "Lost in Translation," whose father directed "The Godfather": 2 wds. |
| 53% | RIANJOHNSON | 11 | Director of the 2022 Benoit Blanc mystery film "Glass Onion": 2 wds. |
| 52% | SPIKELEE | 8 | Director of a 1992 film about 15-Across starring Denzel Washington: 2 wds. |