| 100% | FANLETTER | 9 | Enthusiastic message mailed to a movie star (2 wds.) |
| 53% | STEPHANIEHSU | 12 | "Joy Ride" actress who plays the personal assistant to a movie star in "The Fall Guy" (2 wds.) |
| 52% | WARRENBEATTY | 12 | Shirley MacLaine's brother who's also a movie star: 2 wds. |
| 48% | STRIPTEASE | 10 | Novel by 44-Across that was made into a movie starring Demi Moore: 2 wds. |
| 47% | AVIEW | 5 | "___ to a Kill" (the last Bond film starring Roger Moore): 2 wds. |
| 47% | THEDRY | 6 | Novel by Australian author Jane Harper that was adapted into a movie starring Eric Bana: 2 wds. |
| 45% | FANLETTER | 9 | Mail to a star |
| 45% | COCAINEBEAR | 11 | 2023 movie starring Keri Russell as a woman who encounters a rampaging forest animal: 2 wds. |
| 44% | AWALK | 5 | "___ to Remember," movie starring Mandy Moore: 2 wds. |
| 44% | THEFIGHTER | 10 | 2010 movie starring Mark Wahlberg as a boxer: 2 wds. |
| 44% | CASTAWAY | 8 | 2000 movie starring Tom Hanks and a volleyball: 2 wds. |
| 44% | RUNAWAYBRIDE | 12 | 1999 movie starring Richard Gere as a news columnist doing a story on Julia Roberts' character: 2 wds. |
| 43% | LESMISERABLES | 13 | Victor Hugo's novel which was also adapted into a movie starring Anne Hathaway and has a sentence with 823 words: 2 wds. |
| 43% | ADASTRA | 7 | 2019 movie starring Brad Pitt as a space traveler: 2 wds. |
| 43% | MEGTILLY | 8 | 1980s movie star who recently returned to acting and plays Brad Pitt's wife in "War Machine": 2 wds. |
| 43% | WITHLOVE | 8 | "To Rome ___," 2012 movie starring Greta Gerwig: 2 wds. |
| 42% | MORESO | 6 | To a greater extent: 2 wds. |
| 42% | BYFAR | 5 | To a major extent: 2 wds. |
| 42% | DAYSOFHEAVEN | 12 | 1978 movie starring Richard Gere as a farm worker who hatches a plan to inherit his employer's property: 3 wds. |
| 42% | SCENTOFAWOMAN | 13 | 1992 movie starring Al Pacino about a school student who becomes an assistant to a visually impaired Army officer: 4 wds. |
| 42% | WOODYHARRELSON | 14 | Movie star whose first major role was a bartender on the sitcom "Cheers" (2 wds.) |
| 41% | TVROLE | 6 | What a movie star may pretend to be above |
| 41% | THEOSCAR | 8 | What "goes to" a movie star |
| 41% | BLUEVELVET | 10 | 1986 David Lynch movie starring Isabella Rossellini as a lounge singer: 2 wds. |
| 41% | INLA | 4 | "To Live and Die ___," movie starring Willem Dafoe: 2 wds. |
| 41% | RATE | 4 | What critics might do to a movie by giving stars |
| 41% | ASKSOUT | 7 | Invites to dinner and a movie, say (2 wds.) |
| 41% | JOHNTRAVOLTA | 12 | Movie star whose first major role was a student on the sitcom "Welcome Back, Kotter" (2 wds.) |
| 41% | GRACEKELLY | 10 | "To Catch a Thief" star: 2 wds. |
| 40% | LUREDIN | 7 | Led to a trap: 2 wds. |