| 100% | BRAD | 4 | With 50-Down, actor who plays an astronaut seeking his lost father in 8-Down |
| 51% | TOMMYLEEJONES | 13 | Actor who plays a lost astronaut in 8-Down (3 wds.) |
| 46% | COLIN | 5 | With 50-Across, actor who had a bit part in "That Thing You Do!" alongside his father Tom |
| 42% | SIMU | 4 | With 50-Across, actor who plays Shang-Chi in Marvel films |
| 42% | MRT | 3 | Actor who played Santa with Nancy Reagan in his lap |
| 40% | JADENSMITH | 10 | Actor who appeared in "After Earth" with his father Will: 2 wds. |
| 40% | KARL | 4 | With 33-Down, actor who played Skurge in "Thor: Ragnarok" |
| 40% | JUSTINBALDONI | 13 | Former "The Bold and the Beautiful" actor who plays an accidental father in 41-Across (2 wds.) |
| 40% | SETH | 4 | With 4-Down, actor who plays Steve Wozniak in "Steve Jobs" |
| 40% | BRAD | 4 | With 34-Across, "Moneyball" actor who plays a rescuer of the novelist in "The Lost City" |
| 38% | MICHAELPENA | 11 | "Ant-Man" actor who plays Dora's father in "Dora and the Lost City of Gold": 2 wds. |
| 38% | KEANU | 5 | With 7-Down, actor who played Klaatu in 2008’s “The Day the Earth Stood Still” |
| 38% | EMMA | 4 | Actress Stone who plays an aspiring actress in 8-Down |
| 38% | EDDIE | 5 | With 50-Across, "The Theory of Everything" actor who plays weather scientist James Glaisher in 30-Across |
| 37% | KEVINCOSTNER | 12 | Actor who plays Frank Farmer in 18a and has also won an Oscar for Best Director for "Dances with Wolves": 2 wds. |
| 37% | PAUL | 4 | With 50-Across, "Ant-Man" actor who plays a murdered Hollywood actor on "Only Murders in the Building" |
| 37% | HARRY | 5 | ___ Melling, actor who shares his name with the character he played in "The Queen's Gambit" |
| 37% | MICHAELKEATON | 13 | Actor who plays an alternate-universe Batman in "The Flash": 2 wds. |
| 37% | XXXXXXX | 7 | Actor who became an astronaut in 2021 at age 90 |
| 37% | ROBERT | 6 | With 49-Across, actor who won an Oscar playing Vito Corleone in 1974's "The Godfather Part II," two years after Marlon Brando did the same |
| 37% | KEHUYQUAN | 9 | Actor who won an Oscar for his supporting role in “Everything Everywhere All at Once” |
| 37% | ADAM | 4 | Sandler who plays an astronaut in the drama "Spaceman" |
| 36% | KEVINBACON | 10 | Actor who plays an FBI special agent in "Black Mass": 2 wds. |
| 36% | TYLER | 5 | With 34-Across, actor who played Madea in ten movies |
| 36% | JAMESCAAN | 9 | Actor who plays Buddy's father in Elf |
| 36% | SHERMAN | 7 | With 32-Down, "All in the Family" actor who played the Bunkers' neighbor George Jefferson |
| 36% | TOMSELLECK | 10 | Actor who played the title role in 1990 film western Quigley Down Under |
| 36% | CHANNINGTATUM | 13 | Actor who played an exotic dancer in 2012's "Magic Mike": 2 wds. |
| 36% | SEANPENN | 8 | Actor who won an Oscar for playing Harvey Milk in "Milk" (2 wds.) |
| 36% | WENDELLPIERCE | 13 | "Treme" actor who plays an NYPD captain in "Elsbeth": 2 wds. |