| 100% | IVE | 3 | "___ Gotta Get a Message to You" (first U.S. Top 10 hit for the Bee Gees) |
| 43% | TAINTEDLOVE | 11 | 1981 Top 10 hit for Soft Cell, and a feature of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 42% | GETA | 4 | "I've Gotta __ Message to You"; Bee Gees hit |
| 42% | YOUMIGHTTHINK | 13 | The Cars Top 10 hit whose video features 44-Across as a housefly (and was the first to win the MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year) (3 wds.) |
| 40% | STANDBACK | 9 | 1983 top 10 hit for Stevie Nicks, the first woman to be inducted twice (in 1998 and 2019) into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: 2 wds. |
| 39% | MEND | 4 | "How Can You ___ a Broken Heart" (#1 hit for the Bee Gees) |
| 39% | TILIKISSEDYOU | 13 | 1959 Top 10 hit for the Everly Brothers whose B-side is "Oh, What a Feeling" (4 wds.) |
| 38% | ISTARTEDAJOKE | 13 | 1969 Top 10 hit song by the Bee Gees (4 wds.) |
| 38% | HARDTOLOVE | 10 | 2012 top 10 hit for Lee Brice (his first on the Hot Country chart): 3 wds. |
| 38% | MEND | 4 | "How Can You ___ a Broken Heart" (No. 1 hit for the Bee Gees) |
| 37% | LIE | 3 | "Would I ___ to You?" (Top 10 hit for the Eurythmics) |
| 37% | AMEN | 4 | Top 10 hit for the Impressions, 1964 |
| 36% | JIVE | 4 | "___ Talkin'," #1 hit for the Bee Gees |
| 36% | TRAGEDY | 7 | 1979 #1 hit for the Bee Gees |
| 36% | ELENORE | 7 | 1968 Top 10 hit for the Turtles |
| 36% | EBONYEYES | 9 | 1961 top 10 hit for the Everly Brothers |
| 35% | ILIKEITLIKETHAT | 15 | 1965 top 10 hit for the Dave Clark Five |
| 35% | DETROIT | 7 | First U.S. city to pave a road for cars |
| 35% | CAROLEKING | 10 | "You've Got a Friend" singer/pianist who was the first woman to win a Grammy for Song of the Year (2 wds.) |
| 34% | LIE | 3 | "Would I ___ to You?" (1985 Top 10 song for the Eurythmics) |
| 34% | KISSME | 6 | Top 10 hit for Sixpence None the Richer (2 wds.) |
| 34% | LETHERCRY | 9 | 1995 top 10 hit for Hootie & the Blowfish |
| 34% | BROKENHEARTED | 13 | 1995 top 10 hit by Brandy, about a teenager's first disappointment in love |
| 33% | SULTANS | 7 | First top 10 hit for Dire Straits: __ of Swing |
| 33% | WALKRIGHTBACK | 13 | 1961 Top 10 hit for the Everly Brothers whose B-side is "Ebony Eyes" (3 wds.) |
| 33% | YOURLOVE | 8 | Only top 10 hit for 1980s British band the Outfield: 2 wds. |
| 33% | DANCETOTHEMUSIC | 15 | First top-10 hit for Sly and the Family Stone |
| 33% | ICANSEEFORMILES | 15 | The Who's only U.S. top 10 hit |
| 33% | NOONE | 5 | Who can get in the way of what Alicia Keys feels for you, in a 2007 hit |
| 33% | LOVEISALLAROUND | 15 | 1968 hit for the Troggs, and a hint to what can precede this puzzle's perimeter words |