| 100% | LETSSTART | 9 | "___ the New Year Right," a song about New Year's by Bing Crosby: 2 wds. |
| 71% | GONNAMAKE | 9 | "___ It Through This Year," a song about New Year's by the Great Lake Swimmers: 2 wds. |
| 50% | GONNACOME | 9 | "A Change is ___," 1964 song by Sam Cooke about peace and the Civil Rights Movement: 2 wds. |
| 43% | LASTSONG | 8 | Novel by Nicholas Sparks about a 17 year old teen who is sent to stay with her father in the summer, "The ___": 2 wds. |
| 42% | SMELLYCAT | 9 | Song about a stinky feline, sung by Phoebe Buffay: 2 wds. |
| 42% | ITBE | 4 | "Let ___," a hit song by The Beatles: 2 wds. |
| 42% | GILMOREGIRLS | 12 | The WB's (original network) AFI Award-winning series about a mother-daughter duo created by Amy Sherman- Palladino: 2 wds. |
| 42% | ALOT | 4 | "It's Beginning to Look ___ Like Christmas," a hit song by Perry Como and the Fontane Sisters: 2 wds. |
| 41% | NORWEGIANWOOD | 13 | 1965 "country" song by the Beatles that features a sitar: 2 wds. |
| 41% | LOVEYOU | 7 | "P.S. I ___," film based on a novel which shares its title with a 1962 song by The Beatles: 2 wds. |
| 41% | THISLOVE | 8 | "1989 (Taylor's Version)" song about the ups and downs of a relationship (2 wds.) |
| 41% | BLANKSPACE | 10 | "1989 (Taylor's Version)" song about the start of a potentially temporary relationship (2 wds.) |
| 40% | SWEETDAY | 8 | "One ___," a song by Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men, that was Billboard's most successful song of the 1990s: 2 wds. |
| 40% | AMERICANPIE | 11 | 1971 "country" song by Don McLean about "the day the music died": 2 wds. |
| 40% | YOUNEED | 7 | "All ___ is Love," 1967 song by The Beatles about peace and love: 2 wds. |
| 40% | LITTLEPRINCE | 12 | "The ___," children's book written by Antoine de Saint-Exupery about a boy who leaves his tiny planet to travel the universe: 2 wds. |
| 40% | AMERICANHONEY | 13 | Lady A song with the lyrics "Oh, I miss those days as the years go by / Oh, nothin' sweeter than summertime" (2 wds.) |
| 40% | STILLFALLING | 12 | "___ for You," 2016 song by Ellie Goulding which is a part of the soundtrack to the film "Bridget Jones's Baby": 2 wds. |
| 40% | HIPTOBESQUARE | 13 | 1986 Huey Lewis and the News hit parodied in a "Sesame Street" song about shapes: 4 wds. |
| 40% | GODIS | 5 | "___ a DJ," 2003 song by Pink that was featured on the "Mean Girls" soundtrack: 2 wds. |
| 40% | FALLINGMAN | 10 | 2007 book by 44-Across about a survivor of the 9/11 attacks: 2 wds. |
| 40% | NEUTRALTONES | 12 | 1867 melancholic poem written by Thomas Hardy about the end of a relationship: 2 wds. |
| 40% | THEANTIDOTE | 11 | 2025 novel by 30-Across about a Nebraska town during the Great Depression: 2 wds. |
| 40% | SOSAD | 5 | "___ (To Watch Good Love Go Bad)," a hit song by the Everly Brothers: 2 wds. |
| 39% | YOUNGSHELDON | 12 | New CBS prequel about Jim Parsons's 31-Across character as a precocious 9-year-old: 2 wds. |
| 39% | CAPTAINAMERICA | 14 | Patriotic title taken by a new soldier in "The Falcon and the Winter Soldier": 2 wds. |
| 39% | THEVELVETEEN | 12 | "___ Rabbit," children's book written by Margery Williams about a stuffed rabbit's desire to come to life through the owner's love: 2 wds. |
| 39% | POWEROF | 7 | "The ___ Love," a 1993 hit song by Celine Dion: 2 wds. |
| 39% | DAUGHTERSEYES | 13 | "In My ___," a hit song by country music singer Martina McBride about learning lessons from her daughter: 2 wds. |
| 39% | SOCIALNETWORK | 13 | With "The," 2010 film about the early days of Facebook with a screenplay written by Aaron Sorkin : 2 wds. |