100% | BEN | 3 | "A friend to call my own," per a Michael Jackson hit |
42% | BEATIT | 6 | Michael Jackson hit ... or what you can do to the start of each answer to a starred clue |
40% | EATIT | 5 | Yankovic parody of a Michael Jackson hit |
39% | EARTHSONG | 9 | Michael Jackson hit with a global theme |
39% | SOMEONE | 7 | "___ to Call My Lover" (Janet Jackson song) |
38% | IMBAD | 5 | Boast in a 1987 Michael Jackson hit |
37% | IMBAD | 5 | Michael Jackson boast, in a 1987 hit |
37% | BEN | 3 | Michael Jackson's ode to a rodent |
36% | BEN | 3 | Michael Jackson's first #1 hit (about a rat!) |
36% | SAYSAYSAY | 9 | Paul McCartney/Michael Jackson hit ... or a hint to the starts of 17-, 24-. 57- and 65-Across |
36% | EATIT | 5 | "Weird Al" Yankovic parody of a 1982 Michael Jackson hit (2 wds.) |
35% | IMBAD | 5 | Michael Jackson boast, in a 1987 hit song (2 wds.) |
35% | IMBAD | 5 | Repeated Michael Jackson lyric in a 1987 hit |
35% | BILLIE | 6 | __ Jean, "Not my lover" hit for Michael Jackson |
35% | BEATIT | 6 | Michael Jackson hit song with the lyric "No one wants to be defeated" (2 wds.) |
35% | IMBAD | 5 | Repeated lyric in a 1987 Michael Jackson #1 hit |
34% | TELEPHONE | 9 | Device with keys that is used to call a friend |
34% | IMBAD | 5 | Repeated Michael Jackson lyric in a 1987 hit: 2 wds. |
33% | BILLIEJEAN | 10 | Title woman in a 1983 hit single by Michael Jackson: 2 wds. |
33% | ARIA | 4 | Song that might call for a soprano to hit a high C |
32% | PYT | 3 | Song in which Michael Jackson compares a girl to a stove-top pasta product |
32% | BAD | 3 | Michael Jackson hit |
32% | THRILLER | 8 | Michael Jackson hit |
32% | BEATIT | 6 | Michael Jackson hit |
32% | BEAT | 4 | Michael Jackson hit "___ it" |
31% | PYT | 3 | Michael Jackson hit off "Thriller" |
31% | SAUL | 4 | "Better Call ___" a spin-off to the hit TV show "Breaking Bad" |
31% | BEATIT | 6 | 1983 Michael Jackson hit |
31% | BEN | 3 | Early Michael Jackson hit |
30% | MEFEEL | 6 | Michael Jackson hit, The Way You Make __ |