| 100% | SHE | 3 | "___ Wouldn't Be Gone" (song by 27-Across) |
| 65% | GLASS | 5 | With 27 Across, 2022 film whose title was inspired by a Beatles song |
| 63% | SHE | 3 | "___ Wouldn't Be Gone" (Blake Shelton #1 song) |
| 60% | SINCE | 5 | "___ U Been Gone" song by Kelly Clarkson |
| 60% | SINCE | 5 | "___ U Been Gone," song by Kelly Clarkson |
| 56% | HEART | 5 | "My ___ Will Go On," song by Celine Dion |
| 53% | EXPECTS | 7 | Wouldn’t be surprised by |
| 51% | MAYBELLENE | 10 | Song by 17-Across in which he asks a girl, "Why can't you be true?" |
| 50% | MERCYMERCYME | 12 | 1971 Top 10 song by 28-Across with the lyrics "Oh things ain't what they used to be, no no / Where did all the blue skies go?" (3 wds.) |
| 48% | OLDIE | 5 | Any song by 27-Down |
| 47% | THERE | 5 | "I wouldn't go ___ if I were you" |
| 47% | TELEGRAMSAM | 11 | Song by T. Rex |
| 46% | HARD | 4 | "Brooklyn Go ___," song by Jay-Z ft. Santigold that is about New York City |
| 45% | NAM | 3 | Where 56 Across wouldn't go |
| 45% | PRUFROCK | 8 | "The Love Song of J. Alfred ___," poem by T.S. Eliot which was his first published poem |
| 45% | SHESGOTYOU | 10 | Pop song by 17a which was covered by Loretta Lynn and went on to become a number one country hit: 3 wds. |
| 45% | OCEANEYES | 9 | Hit song by 30-Across that begins "I've been watching you / For some time / Can't stop staring" (2 wds.) |
| 45% | LALALAND | 8 | 2016 movie musical whose songs' lyrics were written by the same composing team as 16-Across: 3 wds. |
| 44% | HEREI | 5 | Song by Bryan Adams, "___ Am": 2 wds. |
| 44% | REMEMBER | 8 | Song by Sarah McLachlan: I Will __ You |
| 44% | HEART | 5 | "My ___ Will Go On," song by Celine Dion which served as the theme song to James Cameron's 1997 epic romance film "Titanic" |
| 44% | HEY | 3 | "___ There Delilah," 2006 song by the Plain White T's featuring Delilah, who is just the kind of girl they sing songs about |
| 44% | SOULSACRIFICE | 13 | Instrumental song by 41-Across that was a hit at Woodstock (2 wds.) |
| 44% | ABOYNAMEDSUE | 12 | Song written by Shel Silverstein recorded by 27-Across that was the only Top 10 single on 42-Across (4 wds.) |
| 44% | STREET | 6 | "Across 110th ___," song by Bobby Womack that is about New York City |
| 44% | TIME | 4 | Word that can be ''framed'' by the longest Across answers |
| 44% | DUET | 4 | Song that can't be sung by just one person |
| 44% | EMBRACEABLEYOU | 14 | Song by 16-Across that was introduced by Ginger Rogers in the musical "Girl Crazy": 2 wds. |
| 44% | SINCE | 5 | "___ U Been Gone" (Kelly Clarkson song) |