| 100% | SAYNO | 5 | "___ to This" (song from "Hamilton") |
| 82% | SENDINTHECLOWNS | 15 | Song from Sondheim's "A Little Night Music" appropriate to this puzzle |
| 79% | ZEROTOHERO | 10 | Song from Disney's "Hercules," or a hint to this puzzle's theme entries |
| 69% | IBELIEVEINYOU | 13 | Song from "How to Succeed ..." |
| 68% | OLDIE | 5 | Song from the 1990s, to some |
| 67% | LALALA | 6 | [I can't remember the words to this song] |
| 63% | WICKED | 6 | Defying Gravity is a song from this musical |
| 63% | CHRISTMASCAROLS | 15 | Songs sung from house to house |
| 63% | ONELESS | 7 | "That's ___ thing to worry about" (words from a "Hamilton" song): 2 wds. |
| 62% | AFTERNOON | 9 | Sunny __, song from The Kinks' album Face to Face |
| 61% | ONA | 3 | "Rate this song ___ scale of one to ten": 2 wds. |
| 61% | MEETMEHALFWAY | 13 | The Black Eyed Peas song from "The E.N.D." with the lyric, "Took my heart to the limit, and this is where I'll stay" (3 wds.) |
| 61% | SINATRA | 7 | This singer starred in From Here to Eternity |
| 60% | RIB | 3 | This bone was taken from Adam to make Eve |
| 59% | TRASH | 5 | Upcycling takes things from this to treasure |
| 59% | FOUR | 4 | *Minus five from 16a to get this |
| 59% | GLASSES | 7 | Drink from these to restore your sight? |
| 58% | SOWSEAR | 7 | Impossible to make a silk purse from this |
| 58% | SING | 4 | ___ along to your favorite songs this next year |
| 58% | ABCS | 4 | Children have a song to remember these letters |
| 57% | WHOLETTHEDOGSOUT | 16 | Hit song from 2000 ... and a hint to 10 symmetrically arranged Across answers |
| 57% | POORMAN | 7 | Hamilton's Eliza is willing to be the wife of this |
| 57% | REHAB | 5 | Amy Winehouse's "signature song" from her album, "Back to Black" |
| 57% | POLLINATE | 9 | Bees do this by travelling from flower to flower |
| 57% | IRISH | 5 | One crosses this sea going from London to Dublin |
| 57% | ISME | 4 | "This ___," song from "The Greatest Showman": 2 wds. |
| 57% | OUTOFTHEWOODS | 13 | Song from Taylor Swift's "1989" that is rumored to be about Harry Styles: 4 wds. |
| 56% | MADE | 4 | Sing along to this 2017 Taylor Swift song! "Ooh, look what you ___ me do..." |
| 56% | ITS | 3 | Sing along to this 2022 Taylor Swift song! "___ me, hi, I'm the problem..." |
| 56% | HELLO | 5 | Hit Adele song from her album "25" that is one way to welcome 2025! |