| 100% | TWOOSCARS | 9 | What Dustin Hoffman received for "Kramer vs. Kramer" and 37-Across: 2 wds. |
| 41% | ENGLISHLIT | 10 | What 18-Across received her degree in, for short: 2 wds. |
| 39% | THEUK | 5 | What 15-, 16-, 26-, and 34-/44-Across make up together, for short: 2 wds. |
| 38% | JEFFDANIELS | 11 | Actor who won a 2013 Emmy for playing Will McAvoy, the anchor and managing editor on 37-Across: 2 wds. |
| 36% | RAINMAN | 7 | 1988 Oscar-winning film starring Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman: 2 wds. |
| 36% | PRIMEMINISTER | 13 | Title for 14- and 45-Across: 2 wds. |
| 35% | WALTERMATTHAU | 13 | Jack Lemmon's costar in 18- and 37-Across: 2 wds. |
| 35% | COMEDYCENTRAL | 13 | Network for 15-Across and 20-Across: 2 wds. |
| 35% | LONELYTONIGHT | 13 | 2014 hit song for 17- and 39-Across: 2 wds. |
| 35% | DARKBLUE | 8 | Color on the spaces for 24- and 42-Across: 2 wds. |
| 34% | DIONNEWARWICK | 13 | "That's What Friends Are For" singer who received a 2023 Kennedy Center Honor: 2 wds. |
| 34% | DAVIDLYNCH | 10 | Director who received an honorary Oscar in 2019 for such films as "Blue Velvet" and "Mulholland Drive": 2 wds. |
| 34% | LINAWERTMULLER | 14 | Director who received an honorary Oscar in 2019 for such films as "Seven Beauties" and "Swept Away": 2 wds. |
| 33% | COMICBOOK | 9 | Setting for each of the places in 15-, 21-, and 41-Across: 2 wds. |
| 33% | ESPYAWARD | 9 | Honor that 33-Across will receive for courage: 2 wds. |
| 33% | ELLIEGOULDING | 13 | English musician who received the UN Foundation's Global Leadership Award for environmental and social justice activism: 2 wds. |
| 33% | GRADUATIONDAY | 13 | What 5/25/14 was for 18-Across at Brown University: 2 wds. |
| 33% | WHATMAKES | 9 | With 17- and 49-Across, 2011 debut single for One Direction: 2 wds. |
| 33% | RAINMAN | 7 | Best Picture winner starring Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise (2 wds.) |
| 33% | HOUSTONCOMETS | 13 | WNBA team that 15- and 30-Across played for: 2 wds. |
| 33% | PRESIDENTSMEN | 13 | "All the ___," 1976 political thriller film starring Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford which is about the Watergate scandal: 2 wds. |
| 33% | THEGRADUATE | 11 | 1967 film starring Dustin Hoffman as a guy who falls for a girl whose mother has seduced him: 2 wds. |
| 33% | BROADCASTNEWS | 13 | 1987 romantic comedy for which 27-Across, Albert Brooks, and Holly Hunter all received Oscar nominations (2 wds.) |
| 32% | NOBELPRIZE | 10 | Award 18-Across won twice, for her work in physics and chemistry: 2 wds. |
| 32% | COOPERKUPP | 10 | Ram who won the NFL Receiving Triple Crown (most yards receiving, receptions, and touchdown catches) for the 2021 season: 2 wds. |
| 32% | BILLIEEILISH | 12 | "Bad Guy" singer who received the Grammys for both Album of the Year and Best New Artist in 2020: 2 wds. |
| 32% | STEPHENKING | 11 | Novelist who wrote "The Shining" and 37-Across (2 wds.) |
| 32% | IDO | 3 | What the bride and groom say: 2 wds. |
| 32% | DAVIDDUCHOVNY | 13 | Winner of Golden Globes (1997, 2008) for his roles as 15-Across and 51-Across: 2 wds. |
| 32% | BESTACTOR | 9 | Academy Award category in which 15-Across received a nomination for 36-Across: 2 wds. |