| 100% | WHATWEVEGOT | 11 | With 37- and 52-Across, #11 on the American Film Institute's "100 Years ... 100 Movie Quotes" list |
| 48% | SINGININTHERAIN | 15 | #1 on the American Film Institute's "Greatest Movie Musicals" list |
| 46% | ROSEBUD | 7 | The highest-rated one-word quote on AFI's "100 Years ... 100 Movie Quotes" list |
| 40% | NURSERATCHED | 12 | #5 of the American Film Institute's all-time top 100 movie villains |
| 35% | RHETTBUTLER | 11 | Speaker of the #1 quote on A.F.I.'s list of the 100 greatest movie quotes |
| 35% | YOADRIAN | 8 | #80 on AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes |
| 35% | PAYNOATTENTIONTO | 16 | Film quote (with 69 and 84 Across) that's the key to what's being ignored this puzzle |
| 35% | FILM | 4 | American ___ Institute (group that compiled a list of 100 great movie quotes) |
| 34% | PLAYITSAM | 9 | Start of #28 on AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes |
| 34% | SHANE | 5 | Western on A.F.I.'s "100 Years ... 100 Movies" list |
| 34% | CHARPLIEN | 9 | Director with three films on A.F.I.'s list of 100 greatest movies, all of them silent |
| 33% | BEASHAMEDTO | 11 | With 24-, 38-, 52-, and 61-Across, Horace Mann quote that's the motto of Antioch College |
| 33% | LIKEA | 5 | With 40- and 46-Across, mossless? ... and #1 on the list |
| 32% | PSYCHO | 6 | No. 1 film on A.F.I.’s “100 Years . . . 100 Thrills” list |
| 32% | AFI | 3 | Assn. with a "100 Years ... 100 Movies" list |
| 32% | AFI | 3 | Org. with a "100 Years ... 100 Movies" list |
| 32% | ANA | 3 | Movie released on January 3 this year with Andy García and Dafne Keen in the title role |
| 31% | AFI | 3 | Org. with a "100 Years ... 100 Movies" list (Abbr.) |
| 31% | BROADCITY | 9 | American sitcom based on Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson's real life friendship which will air its ending with the final season this year (2019): 2 wds. |
| 31% | SAMUELL | 7 | With 37-Across, actor with 11 film roles turned into action figures, including Nick Fury and Shaft: 2 wds. |
| 31% | YOUR | 4 | With 37- and 39-Across, book and TV series on human evolution, and a hint to the circled letters |
| 31% | SANTA | 5 | With the first parts of 17- and 52-Across and 11- and 25-Down, four California cities |
| 31% | GOVERNMENTBONDS | 15 | Treasury notes ... or what the two sides of 17-, 23-, 37- and 52-Across are joined with? |
| 30% | JULIUS | 6 | With 25-Across, speaker of the quote hidden in 20-, 37- and 53-Across |
| 30% | AFI | 3 | Movie group with a "100 Years ... 100 Cheers" list: Abbr. |
| 30% | AFI | 3 | Group that created the list "100 Years ... 100 Movies": Abbr. |
| 30% | SPOONERISMS | 11 | What 18-, 25-, 37- and 52-Across all are (whose circled letters name something used with the base phrases) |
| 30% | DELLA | 5 | With 37-Across, "Touched by an Angel" actress who played a landlady on "Chico and the Man" |
| 30% | MORTALKOMBAT | 12 | 1995 American fantasy action film based on the video game of the same name, with characters like Liu Kang and Johnny Cage: 2 wds. |
| 30% | YALE | 4 | It's #3 on the U.S. News and World Report list of top American universities |