| 100% | DEXTERNEWBLOOD | 14 | Showtime drama featuring 45-Across as a serial killer (3 wds.) |
| 69% | SIXFEETUNDER | 12 | HBO drama featuring 45-Across as a funeral director (3 wds.) |
| 53% | INLIVINGCOLOR | 13 | 1990s sketch comedy show featuring 45-Across as a member of The Fly Girls dance troupe (3 wds.) |
| 45% | YOU | 3 | Netflix series starring Penn Badgley as a serial killer that featured the Taylor Swift song "Anti-Hero" |
| 44% | CALLTHEMIDWIFE | 14 | BBC historical drama featuring 47-Across as nurse Patsy Mount (3 wds.) |
| 43% | THEGOODFIGHT | 12 | Paramount+ drama featuring Christine Baranski as attorney Diane Lockhart: 3 wds. |
| 42% | THEKINGANDI | 11 | Broadway musical that starred 45-Across as Anna Leonowens for one month in 1978 (earning her a Drama Desk Award nomination) (4 wds.) |
| 42% | THEHELP | 7 | 2011 drama featuring Octavia Spencer as a maid in civil rights-era Mississippi: 2 wds. |
| 42% | GAMEOFTHRONES | 13 | Emmy-winning HBO fantasy drama featuring 47-Across as Edmure Tully (3 wds.) |
| 42% | DEXTER | 6 | Showtime drama with a serial-killer protagonist |
| 41% | DEXTER | 6 | Showtime drama about a serial killer (2006-2013), or the main character's first name |
| 40% | TODIEFOR | 8 | 1995 black comedy featuring Nicole Kidman as a murderous wife: 3 wds. |
| 40% | WEAREMARSHALL | 13 | 2006 drama starring Matthew McConaughey as a college football coach: 3 wds. |
| 40% | LIONSFORLAMBS | 13 | 2007 military drama costarring Andrew Garfield as a college student: 3 wds. |
| 40% | THEBLUELAGOON | 13 | 1980 film starring 15-Across as a young castaway: 3 wds. |
| 38% | GOINGMYWAY | 10 | 1944 musical featuring Bing Crosby as a young priest who revitalizes a struggling parish: 3 wds. |
| 38% | THEGOLDRUSH | 11 | 1925 comedy starring 15-/49-Across as a prospector caught in a Klondike blizzard: 3 wds. |
| 38% | THECROWN | 8 | Netflix historical drama featuring 47-Across as Camilla Parker Bowles (2 wds.) |
| 38% | UPALLNIGHT | 10 | NBC sitcom starring 15-/50-Across as a new mom: 3 wds. |
| 38% | FIELDOFDREAMS | 13 | 1989 film featuring Burt Lancaster as a baseball player whose ghost plays one last game: 3 wds. |
| 37% | MARCUSWELBYMD | 13 | '60s-'70s TV drama starring Robert Young as a physician: 3 wds. |
| 36% | THEHOURS | 8 | Generational drama starring 45-Across based on a Michael Cunningham novel (2 wds.) |
| 36% | THEWIRE | 7 | HBO crime drama featuring Michael B. Jordan as Wallace: 2 wds. |
| 36% | ENDUPAT | 7 | Get to, as a final destination: 3 wds. |
| 36% | PUTSTOBED | 9 | Tucks in, as a sleepy child: 3 wds. |
| 36% | INTHEBAG | 8 | Virtually certain, as a victory: 3 wds. |
| 36% | THEGOODPLACE | 12 | 2016-2020 NBC comedy featuring Adam Scott as a demon named Trevor: 3 wds. |
| 36% | THEREPORT | 9 | 2019 film featuring Adam Driver as a Senate 32-Across (2 wds.) |
| 35% | THEDIRTYDOZEN | 13 | 1967 film featuring Charles Bronson as an Army convict recruited into a WWII commando group: 3 wds. |
| 35% | MURDERSHEWROTE | 14 | Long-running crime drama that starred 45-Across as mystery writer/amateur detective Jessica Fletcher (earning her 12 Emmy nominations) (3 wds.) |