| 100% | PVT | 3 | Ryan's rank in a Tom Hanks film: Abbr. |
| 74% | PVT | 3 | Ryan's rank in a Tom Hanks movie, for short |
| 60% | PVT | 3 | Ryan's rank in a Spielberg war film |
| 58% | YOUVEGOTMAIL | 12 | Tom Hanks/Meg Ryan film with a Thanksgiving scene in a supermarket (3 wds.) |
| 50% | BIG | 3 | What Tom Hanks was, in a 1988 film |
| 49% | BIG | 3 | Film in which Tom Hanks plays a 12-year-old |
| 49% | PVT | 3 | Ryan in a 1998 film, e.g.: Abbr. |
| 48% | OTTO | 4 | "A Man Called ___," Tom Hanks film with a palindromic name in its title |
| 47% | TOYSTORY | 8 | Animated film in which Tom Hanks plays a cowboy |
| 47% | MAJOR | 5 | Tom's rank in a David Bowie song |
| 46% | ENS | 3 | Pulver's rank, in film: Abbr. |
| 46% | MILE | 4 | "The Green ___" (Tom Hanks film set in a prison) |
| 43% | SGT | 3 | Pepper's rank, in a Beatles album title: Abbr. |
| 43% | SPLASH | 6 | 1984 Tom Hanks film about a mermaid |
| 43% | OTTO | 4 | 2022 Tom Hanks film, A Man Called __ |
| 43% | AOLER | 5 | What Joe Fox, AKA "NY152", is in a Tom Hanks 1998 movie |
| 43% | CIA | 3 | Jack Ryan's government group, in Tom Clancy novels: Abbr. |
| 42% | FORRESTGUMP | 11 | Tom Hanks' 1994 drama film based on a Winston Groom novel of the same name in which 20a plays his love interest: 2 wds. |
| 42% | NOTEBOOK | 8 | A Ryan Gosling film; it's used by kids in school |
| 42% | BIG | 3 | 1988 Tom Hanks film with a fortune-telling machine |
| 42% | SCORINGBIG | 10 | Composing the music for a Tom Hanks fantasy film? |
| 42% | SNL | 3 | NBC show that featured Tom Hanks in Halloween-themed David S. Pumpkins skits (Abbr.) |
| 41% | BIG | 3 | 1988 Tom Hanks film with a machine that grants wishes |
| 41% | POV | 3 | Perspective, in a film shot: Abbr. |
| 40% | PIKACHU | 7 | Detective in a 2019 Ryan Reynolds film |
| 40% | SEN | 3 | Jefferson Smith, in a 1939 film: Abbr. |
| 40% | NOTEBOOK | 8 | Writing pad mentioned in a Ryan Gosling film |
| 39% | HMS | 3 | Abbr. in a G. & S. title |
| 39% | BIG | 3 | Film in which Tom Hanks plays an oversized floor keyboard |
| 39% | UFO | 3 | Space vehicle in a sci-fi film, perhaps: Abbr. |