| 100% | KIND | 4 | "A Groovy ___ of Love" (Phil Collins song) |
| 67% | SEA | 3 | "___ of Love," song by Phil Phillips ... or a huge water body for ships to sail |
| 64% | PHIL | 4 | "A Groovy Kind of Love" singer Collins |
| 57% | NERUDA | 6 | "Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair" writer |
| 56% | INTHEAIRTONIGHT | 15 | Signature Phil Collins hit ranked among VH1's "100 Greatest Songs of the 80s" |
| 56% | NERUDA | 6 | Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair writer Pablo |
| 55% | SARA | 4 | "Sweet love of my life," in a 1976 Bob Dylan song |
| 54% | ROCKNROLL | 9 | Joan Jett sang of her love for this in a 1981 song |
| 53% | IMAWOMAN | 8 | 2013 Jennifer Love Hewitt's cover version of a song about girlpower: 3 wds. |
| 52% | THATSMYJAM | 10 | "I love this song!" … or a doubly apt description of 17-, 28- and 46-Across |
| 51% | PABLO | 5 | ___ Neruda, Nobel prize-winning Chilean poet who wrote "Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair" |
| 50% | THATSMYJAM | 10 | “I love this song!” . . . or a hint to the starts of 17-, 27-, 39-, and 52-Across |
| 50% | BALLADEER | 9 | Singer of love songs |
| 49% | LYRICAL | 7 | Of the words of a popular song |
| 48% | BUSTER | 6 | Phil Collins film about a Great Train Robber |
| 48% | PABLONERUDA | 11 | Chilean poet-diplomat and politician known for his collection "Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair": 2 wds. |
| 48% | EYES | 4 | "Through the __ of Love"; 1979 song |
| 48% | ILY | 3 | Confession of love, in a text |
| 48% | PRINCESS | 8 | Love of a prince |
| 47% | BUSTER | 6 | Phil Collins film (1988) about a UK train robbery |
| 47% | PROUDMARY | 9 | Girl in a Tina Turner song from the soundtrack of "What's Love Got to Do with It": 2 wds. |
| 47% | POWEROFTWO | 10 | Indigo Girls song with the chorus "Adding up the total of a love that's true / Multiply life by the ..." |
| 47% | AMOR | 4 | Word in many a Spanish love song |
| 47% | NUTESTAMENT | 11 | *Declaration of love for a Greek consonant? |
| 47% | KATY | 4 | Title girl of a 1918 hit song |
| 47% | TURTLEDOVE | 10 | One of two in a Christmas song |
| 47% | ERNIE | 5 | Singer of a famous bath time song |
| 47% | SYNE | 4 | Last word of a January 1 song |
| 47% | REMIX | 5 | DJ's version of a hit song |
| 47% | ABC | 3 | Start of a children's learning song |