| 100% | BOSS | 4 | "___ of Me," 2001 song by They Might Be Giants and theme song of the family sitcom "Malcolm in the Middle" |
| 54% | BOSS | 4 | "___ of Me" (They Might Be Giants song featured on "Malcolm in the Middle") |
| 41% | HAPPY | 5 | 2013 song by Pharrell Williams that is on the soundtrack of "Despicable Me 2" and was Billboard's number-one single in 2014 |
| 39% | TOWN | 4 | "Another ___, Another Train," 1973 song by ABBA that was performed in the style of Simon and Garfunkel |
| 38% | KOOKY | 5 | "They're creepy and they're ___" (start of the "Addams Family" theme song) |
| 38% | INACROWN | 8 | "You Should See Me ___," Billie Eilish song released in 2018 and the title of which was inspired by a scene from "Sherlock": 3 wds. |
| 38% | JUPITER | 7 | "Drops of ___ (Tell Me)," 2001 song by Train with the Solar System's largest planet in its title |
| 37% | TIREMARKS | 9 | They may be left by the side of the road |
| 37% | KOOKY | 5 | "They're creepy and they're ___ ..." (start of the theme song to "The Addams Family") |
| 37% | YES | 3 | "___, no, maybe, I don't know" ("Malcolm in the Middle" theme song lyric) |
| 36% | YOU | 3 | "Now That I Found ___," 2019 song by Carly Rae Jepsen which is a part of the album "Dedicated" and is co-produced by Captain Cuts |
| 36% | TANIA | 5 | Actress Raymonde of Lost and Malcolm in the Middle |
| 35% | YOU | 3 | "Until I Found ___," 2021 song by Stephen Sanchez featuring Georgia, who is just the kind of girl they sing songs about |
| 35% | ANANG | 5 | Title character of a 1988 They Might Be Giants song |
| 35% | PETE | 4 | I became the number one tennis player in 1993 and my record of 14 Grand Slams was surpassed by Federer in 2009 |
| 35% | KOOKY | 5 | Rhyme of "spooky" and "ooky" in "The Addams Family" theme song |
| 35% | WANNA | 5 | "Do I ___ Know?," instrumental version of the song by Arctic Monkeys that was featured in the period drama "Peaky Blinders" |
| 35% | EMS | 3 | They can be seen in the middle of summer |
| 35% | ROLL | 4 | "Rock and ___ Music," hit released by The Beach Boys in 1976 which was a cover of a song by Chuck Berry |
| 34% | FBIAGENTS | 9 | Govt. employees encoded by the nine other longest across entries in this puzzle ... and who might be called in to decode them |
| 34% | NOWHERE | 7 | You may be lost in the middle of it |
| 34% | MAY | 3 | "For Emily, Whenever I ___ Find Her," 1966 song by Simon & Garfunkel featuring Emily, who is just the kind of girl they sing songs about |
| 34% | ANANG | 5 | Character who’s told “hear my words” in a They Might Be Giants song |
| 34% | SATURDAYNIGHT | 13 | "___ (Is the Loneliest Night of the Week)" song by Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn which was covered by Frank Sinatra in 1945: 2 wds. |
| 34% | RAIN | 4 | "___ On Me," song by Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande that won the MTV Video Music Award for Song of the Year in 2020 |
| 34% | FORWARD | 7 | 2016 song by Beyonce and James Blake that is one of the shortest songs to enter the Billboard charts |
| 34% | ABAA | 4 | Appropriate rhyme scheme for the last verse of They Might Be Giants' "Hate the Villanelle" |
| 34% | ENCOUNTERS | 10 | They might be “close” and “of the third kind” |
| 33% | RAIN | 4 | "___ On Me," song by Ariana Grande and Lady Gaga ... or a shower from above that may fill up the water bodies mentioned in this puzzle |
| 33% | TIDE | 4 | "The ___ Is High," song by Blondie ... or the ebb and flow seen in the ocean |