| 100% | REDD | 4 | With 20-Across, actor who played Fred on 44-Across |
| 80% | DEMOND | 6 | With 37-Across, actor who played Lamont on 44-Across |
| 70% | REDD | 4 | With 32-Across, actor who played widowed father Fred Sanford on "Sanford and Son" |
| 67% | SHERMAN | 7 | With 34-Across, actor who played George on 15-Across |
| 65% | JEFFPERRY | 9 | "Scandal" actor who plays Stanley on 44-Across (2 wds.) |
| 64% | BUDDY | 5 | With 33-Across, actor who played Jed on "The Beverly Hillbillies" |
| 62% | MARTIN | 6 | With 35-Across, actor who played Rollin Hand on "Mission: Impossible" |
| 61% | BOB | 3 | With 16-Across, actor who played 36-Across on 41-/54-Across |
| 61% | ALAN | 4 | With 14-Across, actor who played Hawkeye Pierce on "M*A*S*H" |
| 61% | WILLIAM | 7 | With 37-Across, actor who played Principal George Feeny on "Boy Meets World" |
| 60% | LAUREN | 6 | With 20-Across, actress who played Lorelai Gilmore on "Gilmore Girls" |
| 60% | LAUREN | 6 | With 20-Across, actress who plays Lorelai Gilmore on "Gilmore Girls" |
| 59% | ALAN | 4 | With 34-Across, actor who played chief surgeon Hawkeye Pierce on "M*A*S*H" |
| 58% | TIMOTHYHUTTON | 13 | "Leverage" actor who plays Leon Bechley on 44-Across (2 wds.) |
| 57% | DAVID | 5 | With 47-Across, "Doctor Who" actor who plays the demon Crowley on 30-Across |
| 57% | JARED | 5 | With 18-Across, "Mad Men" actor who plays Hari Seldon on 25-Across |
| 57% | DAVID | 5 | With 29-Across, "Treme" actor who played Dr. Jack Morrison on "St. Elsewhere" |
| 57% | ROBERTSEAN | 10 | With 25-Across, actor who played Dr. James Wilson (based on 47-Across) on the Fox series "House": 2 wds. |
| 56% | MANDYPATINKIN | 13 | "Homeland" actor who played BAU Unit Chief Jason Gideon on 44-Across (2 wds.) |
| 56% | JOHN | 4 | With 36-Across, "Coming 2 America" actor who played James Evans on "Good Times" |
| 56% | WARREN | 6 | With 35-Across, actor who played Clyde, one of the title characters on the run in 1967's "Bonnie and Clyde" |
| 56% | ALFRED | 6 | With 36-Across, "How to Get Away with Murder" actor who plays Raych Seldon on 25-Across |
| 56% | PAULBETTANY | 11 | Actor who plays a powerful android in Marvel's "Avengers" films and on 44-Across (2 wds.) |
| 56% | ALAN | 4 | With 58-Across, actor who won an Emmy Award for playing Arnold Vinick on "The West Wing" |
| 56% | MICHAEL | 7 | With 17-Across, "Masters of Sex" actor who plays the angel Aziraphale on 30-Across |
| 56% | MIKE | 4 | With 35-Across, "Next Friday" actor who plays Regina's husband Bennie on 18-Across |
| 56% | NICKMOHAMMED | 12 | "Ted Lasso" actor who plays the magical sprite Billy Blind on 44-Across (2 wds.) |
| 56% | CHRIS | 5 | With 32-Across, "The Lego Movie" actor who played Andy Dwyer on "Parks and Recreation" |
| 56% | DAVID | 5 | With 29-Across, "Carnival Row" actor who plays Foreign Secretary Austin Dennison on "The Diplomat" |
| 56% | JASON | 5 | With 31-Across, "How I Met Your Mother" actor who plays therapist Jimmy on "Shrinking" |