| 100% | SYDNEYPOLLACK | 13 | Noted director who acted in 30-Across with 35-Across |
| 87% | BARRYLEVINSON | 13 | Noted director who acted in 43-Across with 35-Across |
| 45% | LINDA | 5 | With 35-Across, actress who played Regan MacNeil in 18-Across |
| 45% | JOHN | 4 | With 34-Across, pro wrestler who acted in "Trainwreck": 2 wds. |
| 45% | WOODY | 5 | With 35-Across, "Blue Jasmine" director who wrote and directed 18-Across |
| 44% | PAULA | 5 | With 35-Across, singer who had a #1 hit in 1991 with "Rush Rush" |
| 44% | KATEY | 5 | With 35-Across, "Sons of Anarchy" actress who plays the title character in "Rebel" |
| 44% | CHRIS | 5 | With 35-Across, actor who played Ransom in the 2019 murder mystery "Knives Out" |
| 43% | WESLEY | 6 | With 35-Across, "Passenger 57" actor who played crime lord Simon Phoenix in 15-Across |
| 43% | WESLEY | 6 | With 35-Across, "Blade" actor who played Noxeema the drag queen in "To Wong Foo ..." |
| 43% | LADY | 4 | With 35-Across, "Born This Way" singer who plays Ally in "A Star Is Born" |
| 43% | TIMOTHEE | 8 | With 35-Across, "Little Women" actor who plays the lead character Paul Atreides in "Dune" |
| 43% | ROBERT | 6 | With 35-Across, "Raging Bull" actor who played Sergeant Mike Vronsky in "The Deer Hunter" |
| 43% | GRACE | 5 | With 35-Across, actress who starred with Cary Grant in Hitchcock's "To Catch a Thief" |
| 43% | JENNIFER | 8 | With 35-Across, actress who starred in both the "Hunger Games" and "X-Men" movie franchises |
| 43% | BUCK | 4 | With 35-Across, 10-time "SNL" host who was Belushi's straight man in samurai routines |
| 43% | SHOHEI | 6 | With 35-Across, pitcher for the Angels who won the American League MVP award in 2021 |
| 43% | JUSTIN | 6 | With 35-Across, actor who plays Riley Poole in the "National Treasure" films and Disney+ series |
| 42% | EMILY | 5 | With 29-Across, "Oppenheimer" actress who plays director Jody Moreno in "The Fall Guy" |
| 42% | CANDY | 5 | With 35-Across, "The Man Who Fell to Earth" actress who played Debbie Dunham in "American Graffiti" |
| 42% | ROSIE | 5 | With 35-Across, "White Men Can't Jump" actress who plays Renee Montoya in "Birds of Prey" |
| 42% | ALYSSA | 6 | With 30-Across, "Mistresses" actress who was named a UNICEF Ambassador in 2003 |
| 42% | JODIE | 5 | With 30-Across, "Killing Eve" actress who plays Molotov Girl in "Free Guy" |
| 42% | OSCAR | 5 | With 35-Across, playwright who was buried in Paris's Père Lachaise Cemetery, though he wasn't French |
| 42% | JUSTIN | 6 | With 35-Across, "Yummy" singer who won the Pop Album of the Year Juno in 2011 and 2016 |
| 41% | FELICITY | 8 | With 17-Across, "The Theory of Everything" actress who plays pilot Amelia Wren in 30-Across |
| 41% | JULIE | 5 | With 31-Across, "Modern Family" actress who played public relations director Virginia Venit in 14-Across |
| 41% | SERGIO | 6 | With 30-Across, golfer who won the 2017 sudden-death playoff in 38-Across |
| 41% | EDDIE | 5 | With 17-Across, English actor who plays 35-Across in "The Theory of Everything" |
| 41% | ERNIE | 5 | With 35-Across, baseball player who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2013 and died 1/23/15 |