| 100% | CATHERINE | 9 | With 46-Across, actress with the same birthday, 25 years later, as her husband (22-/37-Across) |
| 47% | LIZAMINNELLI | 12 | Actress with the same initials as Linda Marolla, her role in "Arthur" |
| 37% | SALMA | 5 | With 37-Across, "Eternals" actress who plays Kitty Softpaws in "Puss in Boots: The Last Wish" |
| 36% | ARIANA | 6 | With 21-Across, actress who won an Oscar playing Anita in 2021's "West Side Story," 60 years after Rita Moreno did the same |
| 35% | OBAMA | 5 | President with the same first and last name as his father |
| 35% | MICHAEL | 7 | With 37-Across, actor who shares his wife's birthday, only 25 years earlier |
| 35% | MILEYCYRUS | 10 | She played a character with the same first name (and the last name Stewart) on "Hannah Montana": 2 wds. |
| 35% | ABBIJACOBSON | 12 | She played a character with the same first name (and the last name Abrams) on "Broad City": 2 wds. |
| 35% | ANTHONY | 7 | With 31-Across, actor with the same initials as Alfred Hitchcock, his role in "Hitchcock" |
| 34% | ABIGAIL | 7 | With 46-Across, 10-year-old nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for "Little Miss Sunshine" in 2007 |
| 33% | MICHELLE | 8 | With 37-Across, writer whose 15-Across/48-Across was published posthumously with the help of her husband, Patton Oswalt |
| 33% | FARRAHFAWCETT | 13 | "Charlie's Angels" actress who died on the same day as Michael Jackson (June 25, 2009): 2 wds. |
| 32% | OTANNENBAUM | 11 | Seasonal song with a hint to the last words in 17-, 25-, 37- and 45-Across |
| 32% | GOBLIN | 6 | With 27 Across, Oxford's Word of the Year for 2022, defined as self-indulgent behavior |
| 32% | NICOLE | 6 | With 37-Across, "Rabbit Hole" actress who left the Church of Scientology |
| 32% | SHELLEY | 7 | With 37-Across, she won two Best Supporting Actress Oscars, for "The Diary of Anne Frank" and "A Patch of Blue" |
| 32% | ENTER | 5 | Computer key with the same function as "Return" |
| 31% | OCTAVIA | 7 | With 37-Across, "Hidden Figures" actress who voices the manticore Corey in "Onward" |
| 31% | LOCKE | 5 | "Lost" character with the same name as a philosopher |
| 31% | RAMONES | 7 | Seminal punk rockers with the same last name, with "the" |
| 31% | DAN | 3 | Forrest Gump character with the same rank as 24-Across |
| 31% | OUNCE | 5 | Unit of measure with the same Latin origin as "inch" |
| 31% | RUBYDEE | 7 | Actress and activist who was awarded the National Medal of Arts, along with her husband, in 1995 |
| 31% | NANCY | 5 | With 34-Across, she was LPGA Tour Player of the Year in 1978 as a rookie and received the Bob Jones Award in 1998 |
| 31% | TRACY | 5 | "30 Rock" character with the same first name as its actor |
| 30% | AKIN | 4 | In the same mold as, with "to" |
| 30% | MARKRUFFALO | 11 | Actor with the same initials as Michael Rezendes, his role in "Spotlight" |
| 30% | ANNALEE | 7 | Late actress who was on "General Hospital" for 25 years |
| 30% | DELLA | 5 | With 37-Across, "Touched by an Angel" actress who played a landlady on "Chico and the Man" |
| 30% | SOONG | 5 | ___ Mei-ling, former First Lady of China who was the TIME "Man and Wife of the Year" in 1937 along with her husband Chiang Kai-shek |