| 100% | HERESJOHNNY | 11 | Memorable movie line spoken by ... Jack Nicholson |
| 54% | YOUHADMEATHELLO | 15 | Movie line spoken by Renée Zellweger after "Just shut up" |
| 46% | HEAD | 4 | Monkees movie written by Jack Nicholson |
| 41% | MCMURPHY | 8 | Randle __, asylum inmate played by Jack Nicholson |
| 41% | ASIDE | 5 | Line spoken by an actor to the audience |
| 39% | THETRIP | 7 | 1967 Peter Fonda film written by Jack Nicholson |
| 39% | ETPHONEHOME | 11 | Classic 1982 movie line spoken with an outstretched finger |
| 38% | HOFFA | 5 | Labor leader played by Jack Nicholson in a 1992 biopic |
| 38% | TIMETOHITTHEHAY | 15 | With 43-Across, line spoken by the show's star |
| 38% | HONOR | 5 | "Prizzi's ___" (1985 Jack Nicholson movie) |
| 37% | VOICEOVERS | 10 | They may be spoken by movie narrators |
| 35% | TOO | 3 | "You'll float, ___," line spoken by the monster Pennywise in Stephen King's "It" |
| 35% | ADLIB | 5 | Jack Nicholson’s line “Here’s Johnny!” in “The Shining,” e.g. |
| 35% | DRIVEHESAID | 11 | *1971 movie about a college basketball player, directed by Jack Nicholson |
| 34% | ADLIB | 5 | Jack Nicholson's classic line "You can't handle the truth," for one |
| 33% | ADLIB | 5 | Speak impromptu, like in a movie when you forget lines |
| 33% | THEDEPARTED | 11 | 2006 Jack Nicholson movie set among the Irish Mob in Boston: 2 wds. |
| 31% | SPARROW | 7 | Jack ___, pirate played by Johnny Depp in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" movies |
| 31% | YEARONE | 7 | 2009 Jack Black movie with the tag line "Meet your ancestors" |
| 31% | THESHINING | 10 | 1980 Jack Nicholson horror movie featuring Bartók's "Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta": 2 wds. |
| 30% | FEW | 3 | "A ___ Good Men" (Jack Nicholson movie) |
| 30% | YOUDIRTYRAT | 11 | *Line never spoken by James Cagney |
| 30% | ROCKS | 5 | *"Bourbon on the ___," Jack Nicholson's preferred order of whiskey with ice cubes from the movie "The Shining" |
| 30% | HERES | 5 | "___ Johnny!" (Jack Nicholson line in "The Shining") |
| 30% | AFEW | 4 | "___ Good Men" (Jack Nicholson movie): 2 wds. |
| 30% | GETS | 4 | "As Good as It ___" (Jack Nicholson movie) |
| 29% | LATIN | 5 | Spoken by Romans |
| 29% | OSCARS | 6 | Jack Nicholson has three |
| 28% | GOOD | 4 | "As ___ as It Gets," 1997 romcom film starring Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt, whose music was composed by Hans Zimmer |
| 28% | ASIDE | 5 | Line spoken to the audience |