| 100% | NOI | 3 | "___ won't be afraid" ("Stand By Me" lyric) (2 wds.) |
| 81% | NOI | 3 | "___ won't be afraid" ("Stand by Me" lyric) |
| 56% | RIVERPHOENIX | 12 | "Stand by Me" actor whose first name is a medium-sized body of water: 2 wds. |
| 49% | NOI | 3 | "___ won't be afraid" (1961 pop lyric) |
| 47% | COREYFELDMAN | 12 | "The Goonies" actor who played Teddy in "Stand by Me": 2 wds. |
| 47% | WILWHEATON | 10 | "Stand by Me" child actor who wrote the memoir "Just a Geek": 2 wds. |
| 47% | JERRYOCONNELL | 13 | "Scary Movie 5" actor who played Vern in "Stand by Me": 2 wds. |
| 47% | THECLASH | 8 | Band with the 1980 hit "Train in Vain (Stand by Me)": 2 wds. |
| 46% | RIVERPHOENIX | 12 | "My Own Private Idaho" actor who played Chris in "Stand by Me": 2 wds. |
| 46% | BENE | 4 | "Stand By Me" singer ___ King (2 wds.) |
| 46% | COREYFELDMAN | 12 | "Stand by Me" actor who played the Petersons' neighbor, Ricky Butler, in 50-Across: 2 wds. |
| 45% | WITHOUTME | 9 | 2018 #1 single by Halsey with the lyric "I was afraid to leave you on your own" (2 wds.) |
| 44% | ANOSE | 5 | Win by ___ (barely be victorious): 2 wds. |
| 43% | ISAY | 4 | "Do as ___, and you won't be harmed...": 2 wds. |
| 43% | RUNNINGONEMPTY | 14 | 1978 single by 42-Across with the lyric "In '69, I was 21 and I called the road my own" (3 wds.) |
| 42% | ITSSAFE | 7 | "You won't be harmed here" (2 wds.) |
| 41% | DJKHALED | 8 | "All I Do Is Win" recording artist: 2 wds. |
| 41% | THEPRETENDERS | 13 | Band with the 1994 hit "I'll Stand by You": 2 wds. |
| 41% | NOTON | 5 | "___ my watch" (won't happen when I am around): 2 wds. |
| 40% | DEFEATED | 8 | Waterloo chorus lyrics: I was __, you won the war |
| 40% | WHATI | 5 | "That's ___ was afraid of!": 2 wds. |
| 39% | AGAS | 4 | "Once I had a love and it was ___" (Blondie lyric) (2 wds.) |
| 39% | BENEKING | 8 | Soul singer best known for "Stand by Me": 3 wds. |
| 39% | CLOSETOME | 9 | "Don't Stand So ___," a hit song by the band led by Sting - whose birthday it is today: 3 wds. |
| 38% | ALAD | 4 | "When I was ___..." (Gilbert and Sullivan lyrics): 2 wds. |
| 38% | IWANTITTHATWAY | 14 | "Millennium" Top 40 single by 47-Across with the lyrics "Tell me why / Ain't nothin' but a heartache" (5 wds.) |
| 38% | INABIT | 6 | "It won't be long" (3 wds.) |
| 38% | ANOSE | 5 | Win by ___ (horseracing term): 2 wds. |
| 38% | ANOSE | 5 | Win by ___ (barely beat) (2 wds.) |
| 37% | CANTBUYMELOVE | 13 | The Beatles #1 song with the lyric "Say you don't need no diamond ring and I'll be satisfied" (4 wds.) |