| 100% | BEDS | 4 | "___ Are Burning" (Midnight Oil hit song) |
| 54% | OIL | 3 | "Beds Are Burning" band Midnight ___ |
| 54% | LET | 3 | Hit song by The Beatles, "___ It Be" |
| 52% | SHALLOW | 7 | Hit song from 2018's A Star Is Born |
| 51% | UPLATE | 6 | Burning the midnight oil |
| 51% | STILLUP | 7 | Burning the midnight oil |
| 51% | STUDY | 5 | Burn the midnight oil |
| 51% | CRAM | 4 | Burn the midnight oil |
| 51% | STAYUP | 6 | Burn the midnight oil |
| 50% | REM | 3 | Band whose biggest hit song was "Losing My Religion" |
| 50% | CRAM | 4 | Burn the midnight oil studying |
| 50% | STUDIED | 7 | Burned the midnight oil, perhaps |
| 50% | CRAM | 4 | Burn the midnight oil, perhaps |
| 49% | EILEEN | 6 | Title woman in a hit song by Dexys Midnight Runners |
| 49% | MEMBRANE | 8 | In their hit song, Cypress Hill was insane in this |
| 49% | SUEDE | 5 | "Blue ___ Shoes," hit song that was covered by Elvis Presley |
| 49% | CRAM | 4 | Burn the midnight oil, student-style |
| 49% | IDIOM | 5 | Burn the midnight oil, e.g. |
| 49% | CRAM | 4 | Burn the midnight oil at college |
| 48% | CREEP | 5 | Radiohead hit song with the lyric "I wish I was special" |
| 48% | EXO | 3 | South Korean-Chinese boy band, whose first hit song was "Growl" |
| 48% | KILLER | 6 | "___ Queen," hit song by Queen that was written by Freddie Mercury |
| 48% | BOHEMIAN | 8 | "___ Rhapsody," hit song by Queen that was written by Freddie Mercury |
| 48% | UPLATE | 6 | Burning the midnight oil, so to speak |
| 48% | LARA | 4 | Her theme song was a 1966 hit |
| 48% | LAVENDERHAZE | 12 | Taylor Swift hit song that begins, "Meet me at midnight" (2 wds.) |
| 47% | CYNDILAUPER | 11 | Singer/songwriter whose first #1 hit song was 15-Across (2 wds.) |
| 47% | GAME | 4 | "Play the ___," hit song by Queen that was written by Freddie Mercury |
| 47% | LOVE | 4 | "Somebody to ___," hit song by Queen that was written by Freddie Mercury |
| 47% | MONTERO | 7 | 2021 #1 hit song that was teased in a Super Bowl commercial |