| 100% | DAISYBUCHANAN | 13 | Woman with a botanical name in a classic novel set in the Roaring Twenties (2 wds.) |
| 51% | LILYPOTTER | 10 | Woman with a botanical name in a fantasy series about a boy wizard (2 wds.) |
| 46% | FERNARABLE | 10 | Girl with a botanical name in a children's novel featuring a spider who saves a pig with messages in her web (2 wds.) |
| 42% | MARYKAY | 7 | Cosmetics company named for a woman with the last name Ash: 2 wds. |
| 40% | ORANGEIS | 8 | With 33- and 52-Across, television series set in a women's prison: 2 wds. |
| 40% | ANNIEMURPHY | 11 | Actress starring in AMC's dark comedy about a woman with a rude husband named Kevin: 2 wds. |
| 40% | STRANGERTHINGS | 14 | Netflix series set in the 1980s in which single mom Joyce Byers contends with a supernatural monster: 2 wds. |
| 40% | MARTINAHINGIS | 13 | Woman who won the Australian Open and US Open in 1997 without losing a set: 2 wds. |
| 40% | ALTEREDCARBON | 13 | Netflix series, based on a cyberpunk novel, set more than 300 years in the future: 2 wds. |
| 39% | BASKETCASE | 10 | Novel by 44-Across that highlights a song by the same name cowritten with Warren Zevon: 2 wds. |
| 39% | ECHOBURNING | 11 | 2001 novel by Lee Child in which Jack Reacher helps a woman named Carmen: 2 wds. |
| 39% | ONEMISSISSIPPI | 14 | 2021 Kane Brown song with a state in its name that hit the top 40: 2 wds. |
| 39% | LASTSONG | 8 | Novel by Nicholas Sparks about a 17 year old teen who is sent to stay with her father in the summer, "The ___": 2 wds. |
| 39% | GREENGABLES | 11 | Name of the Cuthbert farmstead in Lucy Maud Montgomery's classic novel that 18-Across is based on: 2 wds. |
| 38% | ELLERYQUEEN | 11 | Classic detective fiction pseudonym with a namesake literary award that contains the name of a chess piece (2 wds.) |
| 38% | BATTLEOF | 8 | With 39-Across, 2017 Emma Stone film set in the 1970s: 2 wds. |
| 38% | SOPHIESCHOICE | 13 | 1982 Meryl Streep drama, based on a William Styron novel, whose title begins with a woman's name: 2 wds. |
| 38% | CHARLIEDAY | 10 | He plays a character with the same first name (and the last name Kelly) on "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia": 2 wds. |
| 38% | MRSDALLOWAY | 11 | Virginia Woolf's novel about a day in the life of a woman in England post World War I: 2 wds. |
| 38% | ROSEMARYSBABY | 13 | 1968 Mia Farrow horror film, based on an Ira Levin novel, whose title begins with a woman's name: 2 wds. |
| 37% | CHARLOTTESWEB | 13 | 2006 Julia Roberts kids' movie, based on an E.B. White novel, whose title begins with a woman's name: 2 wds. |
| 37% | FORRESTGUMP | 11 | Tom Hanks' 1994 drama film based on a Winston Groom novel of the same name in which 20a plays his love interest: 2 wds. |
| 36% | HARLEMSHAKE | 11 | Baauer hit with a record-setting 103.1 million US streams in the week of March 2, 2013: 2 wds. |
| 36% | CRIMESCENE | 10 | "CSI: ___," with 31-Across, the name of a TV show Liev Schreiber - whose birthday it is today - guest starred in as Michael Keppler: 2 wds. |
| 36% | MAGILLA | 7 | With 39-Across, classic animated primate with a rhyming name: 2 wds. |
| 36% | SALADFORK | 9 | Utensil on the far left in a standard place setting: 2 wds. |
| 36% | NEEDFULTHINGS | 13 | Stephen King novel set in a gift shop (2 wds.) |
| 36% | GOOSEGOSSAGE | 12 | Yankees reliever with a "bird" nickname who threw the pitch in the Pine Tar Incident: 2 wds. |
| 36% | COBRAKAI | 8 | "The Karate Kid" sequel series on Netflix with a venomous snake in the title: 2 wds. |
| 36% | PAWNSTARS | 9 | History Channel reality show with a chess piece in its name: 2 wds. |