| 100% | NERVE | 5 | "If I Only Had the ___" (Cowardly Lion's song) |
| 60% | LAHR | 4 | "If I Only Had the Nerve" singer |
| 60% | COWARDLYLION | 12 | “If I Only Had the Nerve” singer |
| 59% | LAHR | 4 | "If I Only Had the Nerve" singer Bert |
| 58% | LAHR | 4 | Bert who sang "If I Only Had the Nerve" |
| 53% | TILLYOULOVEME | 13 | Reba McEntire song with the lyric "I guess I can wait if that's what I have to do" |
| 48% | HAD | 3 | "If I Only __ a Brain"; Scarecrow's song |
| 47% | ZEKE | 4 | The Cowardly Lion's Kansas counterpart |
| 47% | ZEKE | 4 | The Cowardly Lion's counterpart in Kansas |
| 45% | HADA | 4 | "If I Only ___ Brain" ("The Wizard of Oz" song): 2 wds. |
| 44% | EGOCENTRIC | 10 | Like someone who only has I's for you? ... or an apt description of the answers to starred clues |
| 44% | ONLY | 4 | "If I ___ Had a Brain" ("The Wizard of Oz" song) |
| 43% | INNOCENT | 8 | The only papal name to have ever begun with I |
| 43% | PERMITME | 8 | "If I could have the honor ..." |
| 43% | INC | 3 | "Monsters, ___," Pixar film with the song "If I Didn't Have You" |
| 42% | IFI | 3 | "___ Only Had a Brain" (the Scarecrow's song in "The Wizard of Oz"): 2 wds. |
| 42% | ZEKE | 4 | Farmworker who became the Cowardly Lion in Dorothy's dream |
| 41% | SCAREDYCAT | 10 | The Cowardly Lion, literally |
| 41% | HADA | 4 | "If I Only ___ Brain" (song in "The Wizard of Oz") |
| 41% | ABOAT | 5 | "If I Had ___" (Lyle Lovett song) |
| 41% | DOROTHY | 7 | Character who sings with the Scarecrow in "If I Only Had a Brain" |
| 40% | HAD | 3 | "If I Only ___ a Brain" (song from "The Wizard of Oz") |
| 40% | WIN | 3 | "If I Could Only ___ Your Love" (Emmylou Harris song) |
| 40% | DOTS | 4 | The i's have them |
| 40% | EGOS | 4 | The I's have them |
| 40% | DOT | 3 | The i's have it |
| 40% | FLAMINGOS | 9 | The __, group that sang I Only Have Eyes For You |
| 39% | CHER | 4 | The only artist to have a #1 song on a Billboard chart in six consecutive decades |
| 39% | BAUM | 4 | Creator of the Cowardly Lion |
| 39% | SEVENTYTWODARKSQUARES | 21 | If I have ___ |