| 100% | MEENA | 5 | Elephant with stage fright in 2016 movie Sing |
| 41% | LALALAND | 8 | 2016 movie musical with a dance number in Griffith Observatory |
| 36% | THEGREATWALL | 12 | 2016 monster movie with Willem Dafoe as a European adventurer in China: 3 wds. |
| 35% | HAM | 3 | Hardly one with stage fright |
| 32% | OPERA | 5 | Stage performance with singing |
| 31% | ASH | 3 | Porcupine in the 2016 animated movie "Sing" |
| 31% | BFG | 3 | 2016 Spielberg movie, with "The" |
| 31% | EWE | 3 | Animal like Nana in the 2016 movie "Sing" |
| 30% | MOANA | 5 | 2016 Disney movie set in Polynesia |
| 30% | MAMMAMIA | 8 | Stage and movie musical with ABBA songs |
| 30% | PHASED | 6 | Introduced in stages, with "in" |
| 29% | LALA | 4 | With 11-Down, 2016 almost-Oscar-winning movie |
| 29% | OGOPOGO | 7 | Singing water monster in Canada with rhyming name |
| 29% | ASH | 3 | Teen porcupine in the movie Sing! |
| 29% | EMOTE | 5 | Express, in stage or movie role |
| 29% | MOANA | 5 | Disney movie with songs in Samoan |
| 29% | BULLHAND | 8 | Works with elephants in a circus |
| 29% | SING | 4 | 2016 animated movie about animals in a talent competition |
| 29% | NAT | 3 | He sang with Stubby in "Cat Ballou" |
| 29% | PINKPANTHER | 11 | Diamond in Peter Sellers movies, with "the" |
| 29% | HOLLYWOOD | 9 | Area in Los Angeles associated with movies |
| 28% | THE | 3 | With 39-Down, last words in many an old movie |
| 28% | SNO | 3 | With 39-Across, small chocolate candy sold in movie theaters |
| 28% | ENCHANTED | 9 | Movie with Amy Adams as a lost princess in NYC |
| 28% | AMC | 3 | Movie theater chain with the most screens in the US |
| 28% | ROB | 3 | With 46-Down, actor in the 2023 movie "Dog Gone" |
| 28% | QUIETMAN | 8 | John Wayne movie set in Ireland, with "The" |
| 28% | BENJI | 5 | Dog in a 1974 movie with eight sequels |
| 28% | GRAVITY | 7 | 2013 movie with Clooney and Bullock in space |
| 28% | CHANG | 5 | Thai beer with two elephants in its logo |