| 100% | VIOLA | 5 | With 1-Down, Oscar-winning “Fences” actress |
| 56% | RITA | 4 | Actress Moreno with Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony wins |
| 56% | GLENNCLOSE | 10 | Actress with the most Oscar nominations without a win |
| 55% | ART | 3 | With 1 Down, retro style |
| 54% | LUPITA | 6 | With 18-Across, Kenyan-Mexican actress who won an Oscar for "12 Years a Slave" |
| 54% | ALI | 3 | With 1 Down, ''Open sesame'' sayer |
| 54% | SOPHIALOREN | 11 | Oscar-winning actress with a 70-plus-year career |
| 53% | JULIANNEMOORE | 13 | Actress with five Oscar nominations (and one win, for her role in 39-Across) (2 wds.) |
| 53% | VIOLA | 5 | Oscar-winning “Fences” actress Davis |
| 53% | UPSIDECAKE | 10 | With 1 Down, dessert sometimes made with pineapple |
| 52% | SHIRLEY | 7 | With 1 Down, first Black woman in congress |
| 52% | WHOOPIGOLDBERG | 14 | Oscar-winning "Ghost" actress who has struggled with dyslexia: 2 wds. |
| 52% | EMMA | 4 | Actress Stone who won an Oscar for 7-Down |
| 52% | THE | 3 | With 55-Across and 56-Across, 2011 biopic for which 18-Across won her second Best Actress Oscar |
| 52% | KNOCKDRAGOUT | 12 | With 1 Down, like a free-for-all fight |
| 51% | OCTAVIASPENCER | 14 | Oscar-winning "The Help" actress who has struggled with dyslexia: 2 wds. |
| 51% | JENNIFER | 8 | With 37-Across, "American Hustle" actress who won an Oscar for her role in 48-Across' "Silver Linings Playbook" |
| 51% | JUDIDENCH | 9 | English actress with eight Oscar nominations (and one win) who was born December 9, 1934 (2 wds.) |
| 51% | SISSY | 5 | Oscar winning actress and singer, ___ Spacek |
| 50% | JULIANNEMOORE | 13 | Oscar-winning actress who co-stars with Matt Damon in "Suburbicon" (2 wds.) |
| 50% | LAURA | 5 | With 42-Down, Best Supporting Actress Oscar winner in "Marriage Story" |
| 50% | NORMA | 5 | With 65-Down, movie for which Sally Field won an Oscar |
| 50% | NATALIE | 7 | With 38-Across, actress who won a Golden Globe, SAG Award, and Oscar for "Black Swan" |
| 49% | JANEFONDA | 9 | Oscar-winning actress with a line of exercise videos called "Prime Time": 2 wds. |
| 49% | MERYLSTREEP | 11 | Oscar-winning actress who starred with 29-Across in "Out of Africa" (2 wds.) |
| 49% | LAURA | 5 | With 38-Across, "Marriage Story" Oscar-winning actress |
| 49% | LUCY | 4 | With 1-Across, "Kill Bill: Volume 1" actress |
| 49% | HALLE | 5 | ___ Berry is an Oscar winning actress |
| 48% | SALLY | 5 | Actress Field with Oscars |
| 48% | COTILLARD | 9 | Oscar winning actress in La Vie en Rose: Marion __ |