| 100% | RUNNIN | 6 | "___ Down a Dream" (Tom Petty song) |
| 60% | IWONTBACKDOWN | 13 | Tom Petty song with the line "In a world that keeps on pushin' me around" (4 wds.) |
| 57% | WONT | 4 | "I ___ Back Down" (1989 Tom Petty song) |
| 57% | WONT | 4 | "I ___ Back Down" (classic Tom Petty song) |
| 50% | JEANIE | 6 | Dream girl in a Foster song |
| 49% | OPEN | 4 | Tom Petty hit song "Into the Great Wide ___" |
| 49% | UPON | 4 | "Once ___ a Dream" ("Sleeping Beauty" song) |
| 49% | UPON | 4 | "Once ___ a Dream" ("Maleficent" theme song) |
| 48% | RESEDA | 6 | Los Angeles suburb mentioned in the Tom Petty song "Free Fallin'" |
| 48% | WONT | 4 | "I ___ Back Down" (Tom Petty song) |
| 48% | LEARNINGTOFLY | 13 | Tom Petty song with the line "But I ain't got wings" (3 wds.) |
| 47% | JUST | 4 | "___ a Dream" (Nelly song) |
| 46% | IWONT | 5 | "___ Back Down" (Tom Petty song): 2 wds. |
| 46% | SAWYER | 6 | Tom __, Rush song inspired by a character |
| 45% | MAJOR | 5 | Tom's rank in a David Bowie song |
| 45% | ITLL | 4 | "___ All Work Out" (Tom Petty song) |
| 44% | ASELF | 5 | "___-Made Man" (Tom Petty song) |
| 44% | YER | 3 | "___ So Bad" (Tom Petty song) |
| 43% | EVER | 4 | "Did You ___ See a Dream Walking?" (1933 song) |
| 43% | LONDONBRIDGE | 12 | Something falling down, in a children's song |
| 43% | UPON | 4 | "Once ___ A Dream," song from "Sleeping Beauty" |
| 43% | FREEFALLIN | 10 | Tom Petty hit with the opening line "She's a good girl, loves her mama" |
| 43% | SNOUT | 5 | Tom —, tinker in William Shakespeare play A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| 42% | SALLY | 5 | Gal asked to "lay down" in a Clapton song |
| 42% | ADD | 3 | System of a Down song off "Steal This Album!" |
| 42% | SPOONFULOFSUGAR | 15 | One "helps the medicine go down," in a song |
| 42% | IRENE | 5 | Woman "in my dreams," in a Lead Belly song |
| 42% | LOLA | 4 | Song character who's met "in a club down in old Soho" |
| 41% | LIFE | 4 | "___ Is a Highway," song by Tom Cochrane about driving on a road trip of life full of ups and downs |
| 41% | ROW | 3 | What to do "gently down the stream," in a song |