| 100% | SOLO | 4 | Performance in which a musician plays alone |
| 100% | SOLOS | 5 | Performances in which a musician plays alone |
| 49% | SOLOIST | 7 | A musician who plays alone |
| 46% | THEATER | 7 | Building in which plays or performances are done |
| 46% | ILIAD | 5 | Poem in which Paris plays a prominent part |
| 46% | YENTL | 5 | Film in which Streisand plays a yeshiva boy |
| 46% | ORPHANBLACK | 11 | Hit 2010s sci-fi series in which a single actress plays multiple clones |
| 45% | DARTS | 5 | Game in which players play one at a time |
| 45% | SPY | 3 | Melissa McCarthy film in which she plays a CIA agent |
| 44% | SKAT | 4 | Activity in which people are not playing with a full deck |
| 44% | TRADINGPLACES | 13 | Movie in which Jamie Lee Curtis played a prostitute: 2 wds. |
| 44% | OURTOWN | 7 | Play in which the Stage Manager is a character |
| 44% | ELVIS | 5 | Musician played by Austin in a 2022 film and Jacob in a 2023 film |
| 43% | FAME | 4 | 1980 teen musical drama in which Laura Dean plays a teenager who gets accepted in a performance art school |
| 43% | AUNTIEMAME | 10 | Play for which Peggy Cass won a Tony in 1957 |
| 43% | GHOST | 5 | Film in which Whoopi Goldberg plays a psychic |
| 43% | DRX | 3 | 1939 film in which Bogart plays a creepy lab assistant, The Return of ___ |
| 43% | STAND | 5 | "___ and Deliver," 1988 movie in which Edward James Olmos played a math teacher |
| 43% | CLEMENCY | 8 | 2019 film in which 26-Across plays a prison warden |
| 43% | SOLILOQUY | 9 | Speaking alone, as in a speech in a play |
| 42% | BACKSTAGE | 9 | The place behind the performance area in a play |
| 42% | SOLOIST | 7 | Musician playing alone |
| 42% | THEROMANTICS | 12 | 2010 Katie Holmes movie in which she played a maid of honor: 2 wds. |
| 42% | THEBRADYBUNCH | 13 | Classic sitcom in which 18-Across played a housekeeper: 3 wds. |
| 42% | BRUCEALMIGHTY | 13 | 2003 movie in which 15-Across played a deity: 2 wds. |
| 42% | BIG | 3 | Film in which Tom Hanks plays a 12-year-old |
| 42% | JOEPESCI | 8 | Actor who played a burglar in "Home Alone" (2 wds.) |
| 42% | MOULINROUGE | 11 | Movie in which Nicole Kidman played a prostitute: 2 wds. |
| 42% | PRETTYWOMAN | 11 | Movie in which Julia Roberts played a prostitute: 2 wds. |
| 41% | INNOCENCE | 9 | "The Age of ___," 1993 historical romantic drama in which Daniel Day-Lewis plays a lawyer |