| 100% | SHANE | 5 | With 32-Across, director of "Iron Man 3" |
| 50% | CARLREINER | 10 | Director of film comedies The Man with Two Brains and The Jerk |
| 50% | DON | 3 | Cheadle of "Iron Man 3" |
| 49% | ARIANA | 6 | With 32-Across, lead singer of "Problem" |
| 49% | JANET | 5 | With 32-Across, author of "White Oleander" |
| 48% | NORMA | 5 | With 32-Across, Best Picture nominee of 1979 |
| 48% | BEN | 3 | Actor Kingsley of "Iron Man 3" |
| 48% | STEPHAN | 7 | With 32-Across, the lead singer of 14-Across |
| 48% | GERMAN | 6 | With 32-Across, study of Hesse and Mann, informally |
| 48% | NANCY | 5 | With 32-Across, teen detective in hundreds of books |
| 47% | ZACKSNYDER | 10 | Director of 32-Across, who also directed "Man of Steel": 2 wds. |
| 47% | RANDALL | 7 | __ Wallace; director of The Man In The Iron Mask |
| 47% | GHOSTOF | 7 | With 32-Across, one subjected to "incessant torture of remorse" |
| 47% | ANSEL | 5 | With 32-Across, photographer known for his pictures of Yosemite |
| 47% | LIU | 3 | Lucy of "The Man With the Iron Fists" |
| 46% | COCA | 4 | With 32 Across, Pepsi competitor |
| 46% | STANA | 5 | With 32-Across, she played the homicide cop partner of 18-Across |
| 45% | ANG | 3 | With 52-Across, "Life of Pi" director |
| 45% | ANG | 3 | With 33-Across, “Life of Pi” director |
| 45% | ANG | 3 | With 40-Across, "Life of Pi" director |
| 45% | BARRY | 5 | With 32-Across, former baseball star found guilty in 2011 of criminal conduct |
| 45% | BONGJOONHO | 10 | Director of "Okja" and "Snowpiercer" who directed 47-Across: 3 wds. |
| 44% | STANLEE | 7 | Co-creator of Iron Man |
| 44% | KINGOFTHE | 9 | With 50-Across, nickname of 34-Across: 3 wds. |
| 44% | MEL | 3 | With 6-Across, a man of many voices |
| 44% | MANDARIN | 8 | Marvel supervillain, archenemy of Iron Man |
| 44% | HOWSTELLAGOT | 12 | With 32-Across, 1998 Angela Bassett film based on a best-selling book: 3 wds. |
| 44% | GERARD | 6 | With 32-Across, "300" actor who earned a law degree from the University of Glasgow |
| 44% | PEER | 4 | With 32-Across, Henrik Ibsen play whose title character has a series of disastrous adventures |
| 43% | THOR | 4 | Partner of Iron Man and Captain America |