| 100% | DRNO | 4 | Villain with a base on Crab Key |
| 59% | DRNO | 4 | Villain based on Jamaica's Crab Key |
| 50% | DRNO | 4 | Villain on Crab Key |
| 50% | XXXX | 4 | Villain on Crab Key |
| 47% | PALM | 4 | With 11-Across, thing on a key |
| 46% | PIANOBAR | 8 | Lounge with a performer on the keys |
| 45% | FATHER | 6 | Play based on a Clarence Day novel: Life With __ |
| 45% | WIZ | 3 | 1974 musical based on a 1900 novel, with "The" |
| 45% | HEATHERS | 8 | Musical based on a 1989 film, rhymes with feathers |
| 45% | JOKER | 5 | 2019 Joaquin Phoenix film based on a comic book villain |
| 45% | XFILES | 6 | 1998 film thriller based on a TV series, with "The" |
| 45% | BFG | 3 | 2016 film based on a Roald Dahl novel, with "The" |
| 45% | BARBEROFSEVILLE | 15 | Opera based on a play by Pierre Beaumarchais, with "The" |
| 45% | THENBA | 6 | Org. with a logo based on legendary player Jerry West |
| 44% | TYPES | 5 | Enters with keys on a keyboard |
| 44% | RELUCTANTDRAGON | 15 | 1941 Disney film based on a Kenneth Grahame story, with "The" |
| 44% | IRONGIANT | 9 | 1999 animated tearjerker based on a Ted Hughes story, with The |
| 43% | DRNO | 4 | Spy-fi villain on Crab Key |
| 43% | ALT | 3 | Key often hit with Control and Delete on a Windows computer |
| 41% | HUNTSMAN | 8 | "Snow White and the ___," fantasy film with a "cold" title based on a classic fairytale |
| 41% | ROOM | 4 | "A ___ with a View" (Maggie Smith film based on an E.M. Forster novel) |
| 41% | DRNO | 4 | 1962 film set partly on Crab Key |
| 41% | PIRATE | 6 | (2/3) Fairy tale villain with an eye patch who's found on a ship, perhaps |
| 41% | HILLBILLYELEGY | 14 | 2020 drama based on a true story with Amy Adams as a troubled mother: 2 wds. |
| 41% | ATEAM | 5 | 2010 Bradley Cooper/Liam Neeson action film based on a 1980s TV series, with "The": Hyph. |
| 40% | MOUNTAIN | 8 | "Cold ___," epic period film with a "frigid" title that is based on a novel by Charles Frazier |
| 40% | NOMADLAND | 9 | Best Picture winner based on a book with the subtitle Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century |
| 40% | URN | 3 | Vase with a base |
| 39% | DRNO | 4 | Crab Key villain |
| 39% | SCAR | 4 | Disney villain with a mane |