| 100% | ARMS | 4 | "(I Just) Died in Your ___" (Cutting Crew hit song) |
| 85% | DIED | 4 | Cutting Crew #1 hit song "(I Just) ___ in Your Arms" |
| 65% | CREW | 4 | "(I Just) Died in Your Arms" band Cutting ___ |
| 62% | DIED | 4 | "(I Just) ___ in Your Arms" (1986 Cutting Crew hit) |
| 52% | THEMALL | 7 | "Let's Go to ___," Robin Sparkles' hit song in "How I Met Your Mother": 2 wds. |
| 43% | SEE | 3 | "You Should ___ Me in a Crown," Billie Eilish song |
| 43% | SEE | 3 | "You Should ___ Me in a Crown" (Billie Eilish song) |
| 41% | FREEDOM | 7 | A hit song by Pharrell Williams that was used in the film "Despicable Me 3" |
| 41% | HAND | 4 | "I Want to Hold Your ___," 1963 song by The Beatles which was their first number 1 hit in America |
| 40% | LIPSAREMOVIN | 12 | 30-Across hit song with the lyric "Talking 'round in circles with your tongue" (3 wds.) |
| 40% | PILLSNPOTIONS | 13 | Nicki Minaj hit song from "The Pinkprint" with the lyric "I get high off your memory / In due time we'll be fine" (3 wds.) |
| 40% | AMORE | 5 | "When the moon hits your eye" feeling, in a Dean Martin song |
| 40% | HEYJOE | 6 | Jimi Hendrix hit song that asks, "Where you goin' with that gun in your hand?" (2 wds.) |
| 40% | INNUENDO | 8 | "Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?," e.g. |
| 40% | ONEFINEDAY | 10 | When "you're gonna want me for your girl," in a 1963 hit |
| 39% | IRIS | 4 | Hit song for the Goo Goo Dolls with the repeated line "I just want you to know who I am" |
| 39% | MRAZ | 4 | Jason with the 2008 hit song "I'm Yours" |
| 39% | ROYALS | 6 | 2013 Lorde hit song with the lyrics "Let me be your ruler, you can call me Queen B" |
| 39% | ROYALS | 6 | 2013 Lorde hit song with the lyric "Let me be your ruler, you can call me queen bee" |
| 39% | HERE | 4 | "Round ___" (Counting Crows hit song) |
| 39% | SAND | 4 | "Sandcastles in the ___," song released by Robin Sparkles in "How I Met Your Mother" |
| 39% | AMORE | 5 | Cause of the moon hitting your eye like a big pizza pie, in song |
| 39% | RENO | 4 | "But I shot a man in ___ just to watch him die" (Johnny Cash line) |
| 39% | RENO | 4 | "But I shot a man in ___ just to watch him die" (Johnny Cash lyric) |
| 39% | RENO | 4 | “But I shot a man in ___, just to watch him die” (Johnny Cash lyric) |
| 39% | RENO | 4 | "But I shot a man in ___ just to watch him die" ("Folsom Prison Blues") |
| 38% | PETERFRAMPTON | 13 | "I'm in You" singer with the hit single "Baby, I Love Your Way": 2 wds. |
| 38% | CRY | 3 | Faith Hill song that begins, "If I had just one tear running down your cheek" |
| 38% | WANNA | 5 | “All I ___ do . . .” (line in songs by Sheryl Crow and Wreckx-n-Effect) |
| 38% | NUMB | 4 | 2003 hit song by Linkin Park ... or the feeling of no pain after dipping your toes in ice-cold water |