| 100% | SHADOWANDBONE | 13 | Fantasy trilogy by 40-Across adapted into a 2021 Netflix series (3 wds.) |
| 44% | SHADOWANDBONE | 13 | Netflix teen drama based on a fantasy trilogy by Leigh Bardugo (3 wds.) |
| 42% | THEDARKCRYSTAL | 14 | 1982 fantasy film, directed by 15-Across, with a 2019 prequel series on Netflix: 3 wds. |
| 41% | PIECESOFHER | 11 | Netflix series starring 17-Across, 29-Across, and Bella Heathcote based on a novel by Karin Slaughter (3 wds.) |
| 41% | RULEOFWOLVES | 12 | Novel by 40-Across that won the 2021 Goodreads Choice Award for Young Adult Fantasy (3 wds.) |
| 41% | THEHATEUGIVE | 12 | Best-selling novel by 40-Across that was adapted into a new movie: 4 wds. |
| 39% | DEAR | 4 | "___ White People" (2014 film adapted into a Netflix series) |
| 39% | GIRLBOSS | 8 | #____ (2014 Sophia Amoruso autobiography adapted into a Netflix series) |
| 39% | BORNACRIME | 10 | Memoir by 40-Across, about his childhood as a mixed-race person under apartheid: 3 wds. |
| 39% | ONE | 3 | "___ Piece" (popular manga adapted into a live-action Netflix series) |
| 38% | MORTALKOMBAT | 12 | Fighting video game adapted into a series of films: 2 wds. |
| 37% | HOUSEOFCARDS | 12 | Netflix series starring Kevin Spacey as a politician in Washington, DC: 3 wds. |
| 37% | SOPHIESCHOICE | 13 | 1979 novel by 47-Across adapted into a film starring 30-Across (2 wds.) |
| 36% | THELEFTOVERS | 12 | 2011 novel by 37-Across adapted into an HBO series (2 wds.) |
| 36% | GOODBYEMRCHIPS | 14 | James Hilton novella adapted into a 1969 musical film starring 19-Across and 45-Across (3 wds.) |
| 36% | NEVERLETME | 10 | Kazuo Ishiguro's dystopian novel, "___ Go" which was adapted into a movie starring Carey Mulligan: 3 wds. |
| 36% | THEODDCOUPLE | 12 | Neil Simon play about mismatched roommates, adapted into a 1968 Jack Lemmon/Walter Matthau movie: 3 wds. |
| 35% | JAYASHER | 8 | Author whose book "Thirteen Reasons Why" was adapted into a Netflix show of the same name: 2 wds. |
| 35% | MAZERUNNER | 10 | James Dashner's dystopian novel, "The ___" which was adapted into a film directed by Wes Ball: 2 wds. |
| 35% | RICHARDFORD | 11 | "The Sportswriter" novelist whose novel 47-Across was adapted into a film by 14-Across (2 wds.) |
| 35% | WALTLONGMIRE | 12 | Sheriff of the fictional county of Absaroka, Wyoming, who is featured in 20 books by 40-Across and a 2012-2017 television series (2 wds.) |
| 35% | GIRLONFIRE | 10 | Album by 40-Across that won a Grammy for Best R&B Album (3 wds.) |
| 34% | LOSTINYONKERS | 13 | Neil Simon play about two boys who move in with relatives, adapted into a 1993 Mercedes Ruehl movie: 3 wds. |
| 34% | THEDAILYSHOW | 12 | Comedy Central program hosted by 40-Across: 3 wds. |
| 34% | HANDMAIDSTALE | 13 | Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel, "The ___" which has been adapted into a film, an opera and a TV series: 2 wds. |
| 34% | TOALLTHEBOYS | 12 | With 32-Across, 2014 romance novel adapted into a 2018 Netflix film: 4 wds. |
| 33% | HIGHFIDELITY | 12 | 50-Across novel that was adapted into a feature film in 2000, a Broadway musical in 2006, and a TV series in 2020 (2 wds.) |
| 33% | THRONEOFGLASS | 13 | Fantasy series by 43-Across that was inspired by Disney's "Cinderella" (3 wds.) |
| 33% | THEHUNGERGAMES | 14 | Dystopian sci-fi adventure film series starring Jennifer Lawrence which has been adapted from a trilogy by Suzanne Collins: 3 wds. |
| 33% | WITCHSSISTER | 12 | First book in a fantasy series about black magic by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (2 wds.) |