| 100% | MANIN | 5 | "___ the Mirror" (1988 #1 Michael Jackson hit) |
| 73% | MANIN | 5 | "___ the Mirror" (Michael Jackson hit) |
| 69% | MEFEEL | 6 | Michael Jackson hit, The Way You Make __ |
| 65% | BAD | 3 | Michael Jackson hit whose title is heard 88 times in the song |
| 64% | BAD | 3 | Michael Jackson album that included "Man in the Mirror" |
| 63% | BAD | 3 | Michael Jackson's album with the hit song "Smooth Criminal" |
| 62% | BEATIT | 6 | Michael Jackson hit song with the lyric "No one wants to be defeated" (2 wds.) |
| 62% | BEN | 3 | Michael Jackson's first #1 solo hit |
| 61% | THIRTEEN | 8 | Age of Michael Jackson at first solo number 1 hit |
| 60% | BEATIT | 6 | Michael Jackson hit ... or what you can do to the start of each answer to a starred clue |
| 59% | MANINTHE | 8 | __ Mirror, Michael Jackson's reflective hit |
| 59% | BEN | 3 | Michael Jackson's first #1 hit |
| 57% | BAD | 3 | Michael Jackson hit |
| 57% | THRILLER | 8 | Michael Jackson hit |
| 57% | BEATIT | 6 | Michael Jackson hit |
| 57% | MAN | 3 | "___ in the Mirror" (Michael Jackson song) |
| 57% | BEAT | 4 | Michael Jackson hit "___ it" |
| 56% | ABC | 3 | Jackson 5 hit with the lyric "It's easy as 1, 2, 3" |
| 56% | BEN | 3 | Michael Jackson's first #1 hit (about a rat!) |
| 56% | IMBAD | 5 | Boast in a 1987 Michael Jackson hit |
| 56% | EATIT | 5 | Yankovic parody of a Michael Jackson hit |
| 56% | PYT | 3 | Michael Jackson hit off "Thriller" |
| 55% | ABC | 3 | 1970 Jackson 5 hit with the line "Easy as 1, 2, 3" |
| 55% | IMBAD | 5 | Repeated claim in the refrain of a Michael Jackson hit |
| 55% | JANET | 5 | ___ Jackson, Michael's sister with the hit song "That's the Way Love Goes" |
| 55% | BEATIT | 6 | 1983 Michael Jackson hit |
| 55% | BEN | 3 | Early Michael Jackson hit |
| 54% | IMBAD | 5 | Repeated lyric in a 1987 Michael Jackson #1 hit |
| 54% | BAD | 3 | 1987 Michael Jackson album that produced five #1 hits |
| 54% | EARTHSONG | 9 | Michael Jackson hit with a global theme |