| 100% | OSCAR | 5 | With 35-Across, playwright who was buried in Paris's Père Lachaise Cemetery, though he wasn't French |
| 78% | JIMMORRISON | 11 | Rock singer who was buried in Paris's Père Lachaise Cemetery, though he wasn't French: 2 wds. |
| 70% | MARIACALLAS | 11 | Opera singer who was buried in Paris's Père Lachaise Cemetery, though she wasn't French: 2 wds. |
| 33% | BUCK | 4 | With 35-Across, 10-time "SNL" host who was Belushi's straight man in samurai routines |
| 30% | LADY | 4 | With 35-Across, "Born This Way" singer who plays Ally in "A Star Is Born" |
| 29% | JADEN | 5 | Will Smith's son who co-starred with him in "The Pursuit of Happyness" |
| 27% | GRACE | 5 | With 35-Across, actress who starred with Cary Grant in Hitchcock's "To Catch a Thief" |
| 27% | ROSIE | 5 | With 35-Across, "White Men Can't Jump" actress who plays Renee Montoya in "Birds of Prey" |
| 26% | LINDA | 5 | With 35-Across, actress who played Regan MacNeil in 18-Across |
| 26% | MORRISON | 8 | Doors singer who died young and is buried in Paris |
| 26% | WARREN | 6 | With 35-Across, actor who played Clyde, one of the title characters on the run in 1967's "Bonnie and Clyde" |
| 26% | ISAAC | 5 | Physicist Newton who is buried in Westminster Abbey |
| 25% | PAULA | 5 | With 35-Across, singer who had a #1 hit in 1991 with "Rush Rush" |
| 25% | KATEY | 5 | With 35-Across, "Sons of Anarchy" actress who plays the title character in "Rebel" |
| 25% | CHRIS | 5 | With 35-Across, actor who played Ransom in the 2019 murder mystery "Knives Out" |
| 25% | SNAPE | 5 | Professor who was in love with Harry Potter's mom |
| 25% | WESLEY | 6 | With 35-Across, "Passenger 57" actor who played crime lord Simon Phoenix in 15-Across |
| 25% | WESLEY | 6 | With 35-Across, "Blade" actor who played Noxeema the drag queen in "To Wong Foo ..." |
| 25% | TIMOTHEE | 8 | With 35-Across, "Little Women" actor who plays the lead character Paul Atreides in "Dune" |
| 25% | ROBERT | 6 | With 35-Across, "Raging Bull" actor who played Sergeant Mike Vronsky in "The Deer Hunter" |
| 25% | ARTHUR | 6 | With 39-Across, "The Crucible" playwright who was blacklisted for his leftist views in the Joseph McCarthy period |
| 24% | EDGAR | 5 | With 34-Across, "The Dancing Class" painter who was born in Paris on July 19, 1834 |
| 24% | JENNIFER | 8 | With 35-Across, actress who starred in both the "Hunger Games" and "X-Men" movie franchises |
| 24% | SHOHEI | 6 | With 35-Across, pitcher for the Angels who won the American League MVP award in 2021 |
| 24% | JUSTIN | 6 | With 35-Across, actor who plays Riley Poole in the "National Treasure" films and Disney+ series |
| 24% | ROBERTBROWNING | 14 | "My Last Duchess" poet who was buried in Poets' Corner: 2 wds. |
| 24% | RUDYARDKIPLING | 14 | "Just So Stories" writer who was buried in Poets' Corner: 2 wds. |
| 24% | CANDY | 5 | With 35-Across, "The Man Who Fell to Earth" actress who played Debbie Dunham in "American Graffiti" |
| 24% | JUSTIN | 6 | With 35-Across, "Yummy" singer who won the Pop Album of the Year Juno in 2011 and 2016 |
| 24% | CHARLESDICKENS | 14 | "Oliver Twist" novelist who was buried in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey: 2 wds. |