| 100% | LOUISVUITTON | 12 | Fashion house that collaborated with the Final Fantasy XIII video game franchise in 2016 to create a new look for the heroine Lightning (2 wds.) |
| 29% | SLIMSHADY | 9 | "The Real ___," Eminem's first song to reach number one in the U.K, with a video that parodied several real-life celebrities: 2 wds. |
| 27% | ROLEMODEL | 9 | A person that is often looked at as someone to follow in the footsteps of : 2 wds. |
| 27% | ALIENROMULUS | 12 | New sci-fi horror movie that's the seventh film in a franchise that began in 1979: 2 wds. |
| 26% | THESALESMAN | 11 | 2016 drama about a married couple performing in an Arthur Miller play that was the second Iranian film to win an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film (2 wds.) |
| 26% | DONKEYKONG | 10 | Video game with a gorilla that first featured the main character of 43-Across (2 wds.) |
| 26% | JESSEOROSCO | 11 | He pitched in a record 1,252 games for nine teams, including the Mets, from 1979 to 2003: 2 wds. |
| 26% | MADDENNFL | 9 | Video game franchise that featured 15-Across on the cover of the 2011 version: 2 wds. |
| 26% | THEGOOD | 7 | "___ Place," a new fantasy-comedy NBC series about a girl in the afterlife, that started premiering on September 19: 2 wds. |
| 26% | BRYANTROTTIER | 13 | Hockey Hall of Famer who scored 5 goals in a single game two times for the New York Islanders: 2 wds. |
| 26% | SPLINTERCELL | 12 | Tom Clancy video game franchise about a black-ops subdivision within the NSA: 2 wds. |
| 26% | ALYSSANAKKEN | 12 | First woman to coach on the field of a Major League Baseball game, for the San Francisco Giants in 2020: 2 wds. |
| 25% | THETORTURED | 11 | With 35-Across, 2024 album that led to a new era in the Eras Tour |
| 25% | FINAL | 5 | "___ Fantasy," one of the longest-running video game franchise that was created by Hironobu Sakaguchi |
| 24% | RAINBOWSIX | 10 | Tom Clancy video game franchise about a counterterrorist unit with a colorful title: 2 wds. |
| 24% | DIDDY | 5 | ___ Kong, monkey character who is a sidekick to Donkey Kong in the video game franchise |
| 24% | MARIO | 5 | First video game character to be honored with a figure in the Hollywood Wax Museum |
| 24% | WII | 3 | Video game console that had the slogan "Experience a new way to play" |
| 24% | WII | 3 | Video game console that used the slogan "Experience a new way to play" |
| 24% | HALLOWEENKILLS | 14 | Twelfth installment in the horror franchise featuring 26-Across that began with a 1978 film starring 12-Across (2 wds.) |
| 24% | KONG | 4 | "Donkey ___," video game franchise featuring a giant gorilla that took over cereal boxes in the '80s |
| 24% | SUPERMARIO | 10 | Video game franchise set in the Mushroom Kingdom (2 wds.) |
| 24% | COBRAKAI | 8 | Netflix series that is a sequel to the "Karate Kid" franchise: 2 wds. |
| 24% | PIERRECARDIN | 12 | Fashion house that invented the "bubble dress" in 1954 (2 wds.) |
| 24% | KATEMCKINNON | 12 | 2016 winner of the Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy for "Saturday Night Live": 2 wds. |
| 24% | SIMS | 4 | With “The,” video-game franchise that uses a diamond-shaped “plumbob” to mark a selected character |
| 24% | MAGGIEHASSAN | 12 | New Hampshire governor elected to her first term as a US senator in 2016: 2 wds. |
| 24% | KYLEMACLACHLAN | 14 | "The House with a Clock in Its Walls" actor who is popularly known for his role as Dale Cooper in "Twin Peaks": 2 wds. |
| 24% | DRNO | 4 | Villain with the title role in a 1962 movie that introduced 007: 2 wds. |
| 24% | FUNNYBONE | 9 | Spot in the elbow with a nerve that's "shocking" when struck: 2 wds. |