| 100% | RAINS | 5 | "I bless the ___ down in Africa" (lyrics from Toto's "Africa") |
| 90% | RAINS | 5 | I bless the __ down in Africa 1982 Toto lyrics |
| 83% | RAINS | 5 | "I bless the ___ down in Africa, gonna take some time to do ..." (lyric from a famous Toto song) |
| 78% | RAINS | 5 | "I bless the ___ down in Africa" (Toto lyric) |
| 64% | AFRICA | 6 | "I bless the rains down in ___" (lyric from a 1983 #1 hit) |
| 57% | TOTO | 4 | Band that sang "I bless the rains down in Africa..." |
| 46% | STP | 3 | Brand in the lyrics to "Slide Some Oil to Me" from "The Wiz" |
| 45% | LOLA | 4 | The "her" in the lyric "I met her in a club down in old Soho" |
| 45% | ONFIRE | 6 | I'm __, song from Springsteen's Born in the USA LP |
| 45% | HARD | 4 | "Awkwardly stretching and yawning, it's always ___ in the morning" (song lyric from 2006) |
| 43% | STREET | 6 | "Well, it's down at the end of Lonely ___...," lyrics from Elvis Presley's "Heartbreak Hotel" |
| 43% | BEST | 4 | The ___ Burger in New York, Marshall's find from "How I Met Your Mother" |
| 43% | EBAY | 4 | "Weird Al" Yankovic song with the lyrics "Gonna buy some Beanie Babies, new with tag / From some guy I've never met in Norway" |
| 42% | SNOWS | 5 | Comes down from the sky in flakes |
| 42% | IMSAD | 5 | "This has me down in the dumps!" |
| 42% | HADMY | 5 | "Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigue, I have ___ vision." closing lines from "To the Lighthouse": 2 wds. |
| 41% | IAMWOMAN | 8 | 1972 #1 hit with the lyric "No one's ever gonna keep me down again" |
| 41% | TORNADO | 7 | "Bad luck, I guess … It was my turn, that's all. I was in the path of the ___" (quote from 18-Down) |
| 41% | GIRLFROMIPANEMA | 15 | The "she" in the lyric "And when she passes, I smile" |
| 41% | TONIGHT | 7 | "___ The Heartache's on Me," song from 14a by The Chicks, which released in 1999 |
| 41% | BEJEWELED | 9 | Top 10 single from 37-Across with the lyrics "Diamonds in my eyes / I polish up ... real nice / ... / Sapphire tears on my face" |
| 41% | IWENT | 5 | “As ___ down in the river to pray” (gospel song lyric) |
| 40% | DUG | 3 | "I ___ you so much, I took some for the team" (song lyric from 2009) |
| 40% | PAST | 4 | "I'm never going back, the ___ is in the ___" (lyric from "Let It Go") |
| 40% | CEO | 3 | "___, entrepreneur, born in 1964" (lyric from Bo Burnham's "Bezos I") |
| 39% | HERON | 5 | The "handsaw" in Hamlet's "I know a hawk from a handsaw" |
| 39% | METH | 4 | "Give me librium or give me ___" (line from The Boys in the Band) |
| 39% | CAROLINE | 8 | The "you" in the Neil Diamond lyric "Reachin' out, touchin' me, touchin' you" |
| 39% | LOW | 3 | Complete the famous country song lyric, "Cause I've got friends in ___ places..." |
| 39% | PSALMS | 6 | Whence the phrase "I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep" |