| 100% | FRIDAY | 6 | With this answer's number, a hit horror movie franchise |
| 41% | THEDIRTYDOZEN | 13 | Hit movie released on June 15, 1967 ... with a hint to this puzzle's theme |
| 40% | ALL | 3 | With 36-Down and 38-Across, Blink-182 hit song, and a description of four long answers in this puzzle |
| 39% | TAKE | 4 | With this puzzle's circled letters, exercise a certain constitutional right, and how to answer each starred clue |
| 38% | ICEAGE | 6 | Animated movie franchise with a weasel named Buck |
| 38% | PSYCHO | 6 | 1960 horror movie with a famous shower scene |
| 37% | THEMANFROMUNCLE | 15 | Hit 1960's TV show with a hint to the nine starred clues in this puzzle |
| 37% | TWO | 3 | "It Chapter ___," horror movie with a cameo by Stephen King |
| 37% | ELM | 3 | Freddy Krueger's street, in a horror movie franchise |
| 37% | ALIENROMULUS | 12 | New sci-fi horror movie that's the seventh film in a franchise that began in 1979: 2 wds. |
| 37% | SCREAM | 6 | Horror franchise with a recurring character called Ghostface |
| 37% | RITAORA | 7 | This London singer had a hit with Poison |
| 37% | ELM | 3 | Street in a horror movie franchise |
| 37% | DONTTAKEANYOF | 13 | With 33-Down, Skeptic's advice ... or a "noteworthy" hint to seven Across answers in this puzzle |
| 37% | ELM | 3 | Tree associated with a horror franchise |
| 37% | EVIL | 4 | "The ___ Dead" (1981 Bruce Campbell horror movie that launched a franchise) |
| 36% | MEN | 3 | 2022 horror movie that ends with a chain of male births |
| 36% | JERSEY | 6 | A US athlete wears this with numbers on it |
| 36% | BLACKEYED | 9 | These Peas had a 2009 hit with Boom Boom Pow |
| 36% | PUSSYCAT | 8 | These Dolls had a 2005 hit with Don't Cha |
| 35% | SAW | 3 | Horror film franchise that shares a name with a toothy tool |
| 35% | ELM | 3 | Street name in a horror movie franchise |
| 35% | AND | 3 | + ... with a hint to four pairs of answers in this puzzle |
| 35% | LALALAND | 8 | 2016 movie musical with a dance number in Griffith Observatory |
| 35% | ARGO | 4 | 2012 movie with the line "If I'm doing a fake movie, it's gonna be a fake hit" |
| 34% | FANTASTICBEASTS | 15 | With 68- and 74-Across, J. K. Rowling's first screenplay, with a hint to three pairs of answers in this puzzle |
| 34% | CHUCKY | 6 | Red-headed doll from the horror movie franchise, "Child's Play" |
| 34% | BUTWAITTHERESMORE | 17 | Infomercial line ... with a hint to 10 answers in this puzzle |
| 34% | ARGO | 4 | Best Picture winner with the line "If I'm doing a fake movie, it's gonna be a fake hit" |
| 34% | FLIP | 4 | With 65-Across, part of a record ... or what each of this puzzle's five long Across answers has? |