| 100% | GLENN | 5 | With 33-Across, she played physician Sarah Cooper in "The Big Chill" |
| 46% | MARYKAYPLACE | 12 | She played attorney Meg Jones in "The Big Chill": 3 wds. |
| 43% | WILLY | 5 | With 33-Across, candymaker played by Johnny Depp in "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" |
| 42% | CHRIS | 5 | With 33-Across, "Guardians of the Galaxy" star who plays Owen Grady in 15-/49-Across |
| 40% | LAUREN | 6 | With 33-Across, actress who appeared opposite Humphrey Bogart in "The Big Sleep" |
| 39% | KATHRINE | 8 | With 33-Across, "The Sopranos" actress who plays Anna Genovese in "The Alto Knights" |
| 38% | MARGOT | 6 | With 33-Across, "The Wolf of Wall Street" actress who played Harley Quinn in "Suicide Squad" |
| 38% | CHUCK | 5 | With 33-Across, "Big Self-Portrait" painter who received the National Medal of Arts in 2000 |
| 38% | AVA | 3 | She played Sarah in "The Bible" |
| 37% | CHARLES | 7 | With 33-Across, World War II veteran who played a soldier on a suicide mission in "The Dirty Dozen" |
| 36% | AUSTIN | 6 | With 33-Across, "Elvis" actor who plays Hank Thompson in "Caught Stealing" |
| 36% | TIMOTHEE | 8 | With 33-Across, "Dune" actor who plays young Willy Wonka in "Wonka" |
| 36% | BRYCE | 5 | With 33-Across, Alabama quarterback who won the Heisman Trophy in 2021 |
| 36% | SMART | 5 | Sarah —, actress who played Virginia Braithwaite in 2000s ITV series At Home with the Braithwaites |
| 36% | LIONEL | 6 | With 33-Across, winner of the Golden Ball in the 2014 World Cup |
| 35% | SALLY | 5 | With 33-Across, actress who played Daniel's ex-wife Miranda in "Mrs. Doubtfire" |
| 35% | NORMAN | 6 | With 33-Across, novelist and journalist who plays Stanford White in "Ragtime" (2 wds.) |
| 35% | MELISSA | 7 | With 33-Across, actress who plays Kara Danvers/Supergirl on The CW's "Supergirl" |
| 35% | LEANN | 5 | With 33-Across, "Blue" singer who won the Best New Artist Grammy in 1997 |
| 35% | GDARNGDENRS | 11 | Play in 7-Across with the rack ADEGNRS |
| 35% | RDESRIRDEDS | 11 | Play in 7-Across with the rack DDEEIRS |
| 35% | WROWRRDIEDR | 11 | Play in 7-Across with the rack DEIORRW |
| 35% | BILLY | 5 | With 33-Across, Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart's defense lawyer in the musical "Chicago" |
| 35% | ARCO | 4 | With 63-Across, where the Kings play in Sacramento |
| 35% | MICHAEL | 7 | With 33-Across, pop singer whose posthumous album "This Is It" topped the charts in 2009 |
| 35% | NICKI | 5 | With 33-Across, "Anaconda" rapper who won the BET Award for Best New Artist in 2010 |
| 34% | DEREK | 5 | She played the 10 in "10" |
| 34% | ANYA | 4 | She played Margot in The Menu |
| 34% | SMACK | 5 | With 33-Down, precisely, as in the middle of 17-, 23-, 51- and 62-Across |
| 34% | JEAN | 4 | ___ Grey, Famke Janssen's character in the X-Men films, where she plays a telepath who can move objects with her mind |