| 100% | EMILY | 5 | With 29-Across, "Oppenheimer" actress who plays director Jody Moreno in "The Fall Guy" |
| 50% | JODIE | 5 | With 29-Across, "Killing Eve" actress who plays Millie in "Free Guy" |
| 48% | RACHELMCADAMS | 13 | "True Detective" actress who played 32-Across in the Guy Ritchie film "Sherlock Holmes" (2 wds.) |
| 46% | STEPHANIEHSU | 12 | "Joy Ride" actress who plays the personal assistant to a movie star in "The Fall Guy" (2 wds.) |
| 45% | VICKILAWRENCE | 13 | Actress who played Mama Thelma Harper in "The Family" skits with 38-Across (2 wds.) |
| 44% | ANGELABASSETT | 13 | Actress who plays Tina Turner in the music biopic "What's Love Got to Do with It" (2 wds.) |
| 44% | BLAKELIVELY | 11 | "Gossip Girl" actress who plays Lily Bloom in the 2024 film "It Ends With Us" (2 wds.) |
| 44% | MARGARETAVERY | 13 | Actress who plays Shug in "The Color Purple" who reunites with co-star Danny Glover in 28-Across (2 wds.) |
| 44% | ARIANA | 6 | With 21-Across, actress who won an Oscar playing Anita in 2021's "West Side Story," 60 years after Rita Moreno did the same |
| 44% | MAGGIE | 6 | With 34-Across, "Psych" actress who plays the mother in 18-Across |
| 43% | EMILY | 5 | ___ Blunt, actress who plays Kitty Oppenheimer in the 2023 film "Oppenheimer" |
| 43% | LUCYLIU | 7 | Actress who plays 22-Across/41-Across in the CBS series "Elementary" (2 wds.) |
| 43% | LINDAHAMILTON | 13 | Actress who plays 30-Across in the 2019 sequel to 15-Across (2 wds.) |
| 43% | ISABELSANFORD | 13 | Actress who played Louise on "All in the Family" and 45-Across (2 wds.) |
| 42% | EVELYNKEYES | 11 | Actress who played Suellen O'Hara in the film "Gone With the Wind": 2 wds. |
| 42% | JULIAGARNER | 11 | "Ozark" actress who plays the title con artist in 30-Across (2 wds.) |
| 42% | CANDICEBERGEN | 13 | "Murphy Brown" actress who played the pageant director in "Miss Congeniality": 2 wds. |
| 42% | SALMA | 5 | With 37-Across, "Eternals" actress who plays Kitty Softpaws in "Puss in Boots: The Last Wish" |
| 42% | CHURM | 5 | Sarah —, actress who played Sarah Braithwaite in ITV series At Home with the Braithwaites |
| 42% | SARAH | 5 | & 8D Actress who played Sarah Braithwaite in ITV series At Home with the Braithwaites |
| 42% | MICHELLE | 8 | With 45-Across, actress who played Catwoman in the 1992 film "Batman Returns" |
| 42% | FELICITY | 8 | With 55-Across, English actress who plays the first wife of 35-Across in "The Theory of Everything" |
| 41% | JILLIANBELL | 11 | "Brittany Runs a Marathon" actress who plays Pepper the Elf in 31-Across (2 wds.) |
| 41% | SMART | 5 | Sarah —, actress who played Virginia Braithwaite in 2000s ITV series At Home with the Braithwaites |
| 41% | PAULINEYATES | 12 | Actress who played Elizabeth Perrin in 1970s BBC TV comedy series The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin |
| 41% | SISSYSPACEK | 11 | Oscar-winning actress who starred with 29-Across in "The Old Man & the Gun" (2 wds.) |
| 41% | MICHELLE | 8 | With 27-Down, actress who plays the wife of 15-Across in "The Greatest Showman" |
| 41% | JULIEDELPY | 10 | French-American actress who plays Céline in the 31-Across (2 wds.) |
| 41% | ANNEHATHAWAY | 12 | "Ocean's 8" actress who plays Fantine in the 2012 film adaptation of 32-Across (2 wds.) |
| 41% | DIANELANE | 9 | "Unfaithful" actress who plays Penny Chenery, the owner of 33-Across, in a 2010 film (2 wds.) |