| 100% | SPLINTERCELL | 12 | Tom Clancy video game franchise about a black-ops subdivision within the NSA: 2 wds. |
| 60% | RAINBOWSIX | 10 | Tom Clancy video game franchise about a counterterrorist unit with a colorful title: 2 wds. |
| 56% | GHOSTRECON | 10 | Tom Clancy video game franchise about an intelligence-gathering special-ops squad: 2 wds. |
| 38% | SSN | 3 | Tom Clancy's '96 techno-thriller novel about a nuclear attack sub that tied in with a video game of the same name |
| 36% | MADDENNFL | 9 | Video game franchise that featured 15-Across on the cover of the 2011 version: 2 wds. |
| 35% | SUPERMARIO | 10 | Video game franchise set in the Mushroom Kingdom (2 wds.) |
| 34% | SATOSHITAJIRI | 13 | Japanese video game designer who is the creator of the Pokemon franchise: 2 wds. |
| 34% | STREETFIGHTER | 13 | Video game franchise made into a 1994 film starring Jean-Claude Van Damme (2 wds.) |
| 34% | MORTALKOMBAT | 12 | Video game franchise made into a 1995 film starring Linden Ashby (2 wds.) |
| 33% | RESIDENTEVIL | 12 | Video game franchise made into a series of films starring Milla Jovovich (2 wds.) |
| 32% | THETERMINATOR | 13 | 1984 movie about a cyborg from the future that launched a franchise including a 2024 Netflix anime series: 2 wds. |
| 32% | MARIOKART | 9 | Nintendo racing video game franchise: 2 wds. |
| 31% | DONKEYKONG | 10 | Video game with a gorilla that first featured the main character of 43-Across (2 wds.) |
| 31% | ENDWAR | 6 | Tom Clancy video game set during a global conflict sparked by an energy crisis |
| 30% | APE | 3 | "___ Escape" (video game franchise about a monkey named Specter) |
| 29% | BOURNELEGACY | 12 | With "The," 2012 action thriller starring Jeremy Renner as a black ops operative: 2 wds. |
| 29% | ANIMALCROSSING | 14 | Video game series whose 2020 "New Horizons" game was a big hit: 2 wds. |
| 28% | FALLINGMAN | 10 | 2007 book by 44-Across about a survivor of the 9/11 attacks: 2 wds. |
| 28% | THEANTIDOTE | 11 | 2025 novel by 30-Across about a Nebraska town during the Great Depression: 2 wds. |
| 28% | OFFICELADIES | 12 | Podcast about a 2005-2013 NBC show featuring the Dunder Mifflin Paper Company: 2 wds. |
| 28% | WILLTRENT | 9 | ABC crime drama about a special agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation: 2 wds. |
| 28% | WARHORSE | 8 | 2011 Spielberg drama about a thoroughbred sold to the British army: 2 wds. |
| 28% | SPYKIDS | 7 | Action-comedy franchise about a family of undercover agents (2 wds.) |
| 28% | MORTALKOMBAT | 12 | Fighting video game adapted into a series of films: 2 wds. |
| 27% | LOUISVUITTON | 12 | Fashion house that collaborated with the Final Fantasy XIII video game franchise in 2016 to create a new look for the heroine Lightning (2 wds.) |
| 27% | MEANSTREAK | 10 | 2014 Sandra Brown bestseller about a doctor who goes missing in the mountain wilderness: 2 wds. |
| 27% | RESIDENTEVIL | 12 | Survival-horror video game series, or a 2002 Milla Jovovich film: 2 wds. |
| 27% | NAUGHTYDOG | 10 | Video game company that created the "Uncharted" action-adventure game series, which has been adapted into a film starring Antonio Banderas, 31-Across, and 43-Across (2 wds.) |
| 27% | DJHERO | 6 | Music video game with a turntable controller (2 wds.) |
| 27% | THEALCHEMIST | 12 | Paulo Coelho novel about a boy who travels to find a treasure at the Egyptian pyramids: 2 wds. |