| 100% | JENNIFER | 8 | With 33-Across, "A Beautiful Mind" Oscar-winning actress who plays Melanie Cavill on 38-Across |
| 52% | JENNIFER | 8 | With 34-Across, "Alita: Battle Angel" actress who plays Melanie Cavill on 13-Across |
| 48% | NATALIE | 7 | With 38-Across, actress who won a Golden Globe, SAG Award, and Oscar for "Black Swan" |
| 47% | CATHERINE | 9 | With 33-Across, "Chicago" actress who plays Morticia Addams on "Wednesday" |
| 46% | JENNIFER | 8 | With 50-Across, "A Beautiful Mind" actress who plays bar owner Penelope "Penny" Benjamin in "Top Gun: Maverick" |
| 46% | LAUREN | 6 | With 33-Across, "Good Girls" actress and comedian who won $500,000 for charity on "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" in 2020 |
| 43% | MELISSA | 7 | With 33-Across, actress who plays Kara Danvers/Supergirl on The CW's "Supergirl" |
| 42% | DELLA | 5 | With 37-Across, "Touched by an Angel" actress who played a landlady on "Chico and the Man" |
| 42% | LUPITA | 6 | With 18-Across, Kenyan-Mexican actress who won an Oscar for "12 Years a Slave" |
| 42% | VIOLADAVIS | 10 | Oscar-, Emmy-, and Tony-winning actress who plays lawyer Annalise Keating on "How to Get Away with Murder" (2 wds.) |
| 42% | ROBERTDUVALL | 12 | Oscar-winning actor who played a man in love with a tiny doll on "The Twilight Zone": 2 wds. |
| 41% | ANNETTEOTOOLE | 13 | "Smallville" actress who plays Mayor McRae on 38-Across (2 wds.) |
| 41% | JENNIFER | 8 | With 44-Across, actress who won an Emmy Award for playing Tanya McQuoid on the first season of "The White Lotus" |
| 41% | DANIELLEFISHEL | 14 | Actress who plays Topanga Matthews on 33-Across: 2 wds. |
| 41% | CHARLES | 7 | With 33-Across, World War II veteran who played a soldier on a suicide mission in "The Dirty Dozen" |
| 41% | WHOOPIGOLDBERG | 14 | Actress who won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for playing 19-Across in 62-Across (2 wds.) |
| 40% | EMILY | 5 | With 33-Across, "The Girl on the Train" actress who stars in "A Quiet Place Part II" |
| 40% | TARAJIPHENSON | 13 | “Person of Interest” actress who played a mathematician in 38-Across |
| 40% | OTERI | 5 | Actress Cheri who played a cheerleader on 51-Across |
| 40% | AMANDLA | 7 | With 9-Down, "The Hunger Games" actress who plays twin sisters on 31-Across/47-Across |
| 39% | KATHRYNHAHN | 11 | "WandaVision" actress who plays advice columnist Clare Pierce in the Hulu series "Tiny Beautiful Things," based on a book by 30-Across (2 wds.) |
| 39% | RON | 3 | Howard who won a Best Director Oscar for "A Beautiful Mind" |
| 39% | MERYLSTREEP | 11 | Actress with a record 21 Oscar nominations who turned 75 years old on June 22, 2024 (2 wds.) |
| 39% | SONYA | 5 | Actress Eddy who won a posthumous Emmy for playing Epiphany Johnson on "General Hospital" |
| 39% | SARATOMKO | 9 | "Once Upon a Time" actress who plays Asta Twelvetrees on 50-Across (2 wds.) |
| 38% | DENCH | 5 | Actress Judi who plays a suspect on the 34-Across |
| 38% | CRUZ | 4 | Actress Penelope who plays a suspect on the 34-Across |
| 38% | MARILU | 6 | With 32-Across, actress who played Elaine Nardo on "Taxi" |
| 38% | GWYNETH | 7 | With 38-Across, actress who played 44-Across |
| 38% | LOUISEFLETCHER | 14 | Actress who won a Best Actress Oscar for playing 46-Across in the 1975 film "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (2 wds.) |