| 100% | NORMA | 5 | "Goodbye, ___ Jean ..." (start of the song "Candle in the Wind") |
| 66% | NORMA | 5 | "Goodbye ___ Jean" (opening line of Elton John's "Candle in the Wind") |
| 62% | ILUVU | 5 | Start of the song title in the 25 Across clue, but imagine it on Valentine's Day candy |
| 61% | ELTONJOHN | 9 | Singer and songwriter of Candle in the Wind |
| 61% | ELTONJOHN | 9 | Your Song and Candle in the Wind singer |
| 60% | NORMA | 5 | "Goodbye, ___ Jean ..." ("Candle in the Wind" lyric) |
| 59% | YELLOW | 6 | "Goodbye ___ Brick Road," 1973 album by Elton John with the hit song "Candle in the Wind" |
| 58% | NORMA | 5 | "Goodbye ___ Jeane" (opening line of Elton John's "Candle in the Wind") |
| 57% | DIANA | 5 | Subject of Elton's "Candle in the Wind 1997" |
| 55% | ELTONJOHN | 9 | "Piano man" with the hit song "Candle in the Wind": 2 wds. |
| 54% | ROCKMUSIC | 9 | Style of songs that started in the US in the 1940s |
| 53% | DIANA | 5 | Princess who was the subject of "Candle in the Wind" |
| 53% | NORMA | 5 | Second word of Elton John's "Candle in the Wind" |
| 53% | DIANA | 5 | Subject of Elton John's "Candle in the Wind 1997" |
| 52% | OSAY | 4 | Start of a song sung in school |
| 52% | OER | 3 | Start of the last line in "The Star-Spangled Banner" |
| 52% | ELTONJOHN | 9 | Candle In The Wind singer born Reg Dwight |
| 52% | MORN | 4 | Start of the day, in poetry |
| 51% | LADYDI | 6 | Dedicatee of Elton John's "Candle in the Wind 1997," familiarly (2 wds.) |
| 51% | ELTONJOHN | 9 | "Candle in the Wind" singer/pianist who's the subject of 41-Across: 2 wds. |
| 51% | ABCDE | 5 | Start of the alphabet song |
| 51% | ABC | 3 | Start of the alphabet song |
| 50% | ITSAHELLUVATOWN | 15 | Lyric in the song named by the starts and ends of 19-, 27-, 45- and 53-Across |
| 50% | OHRIO | 5 | Start of the "flying down" song |
| 50% | ELTONJOHN | 9 | Pop singer who co-wrote Candle in the Wind |
| 50% | NALA | 4 | Singer of the song "Shadowland" in "The Lion King" |
| 50% | SWISHING | 8 | The __ of riverbank reeds in the wind |
| 50% | ABBA | 4 | Band that inspired Lars to start performing, in Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga |
| 49% | SANTANA | 7 | Starting in 1999, rock band with a song in the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 for 42 consecutive weeks |
| 49% | EDEN | 4 | "Children of ___" (musical with the song "Lost in the Wilderness") |