| 100% | EVER | 4 | "If you're ___ in a jam, here I am" (first line of the classic song "Friendship") |
| 54% | MOUNTAINHIGHVALLEYLOW | 21 | Classic song with the repeated line "If you need me, I will be nearby" ... shown symbolically in this puzzle |
| 43% | INACROWN | 8 | "You Should See Me ___," Billie Eilish song released in 2018 and the title of which was inspired by a scene from "Sherlock": 3 wds. |
| 43% | GENIE | 5 | "Aladdin" character whose first line is "Oy! 10,000 years will give you such a crick in the neck!" |
| 43% | BAA | 3 | Word repeated before "black sheep," in a nursery rhyme that may be one of the first poems you learned |
| 42% | ERMA | 4 | Bombeck who wrote If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits? |
| 42% | LAYLA | 5 | Song with the line "Like a fool, I fell in love with you" |
| 42% | CASABLANCA | 10 | 1942 film that ends with the line “Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship” |
| 41% | DOE | 3 | First word in a classic song from "The Sound of Music" |
| 40% | TIMES | 5 | Square where the words in this puzzle's dropping balls may be heard at the end of a song's first verse |
| 40% | PITS | 4 | "If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries What Am I Doing in the ___?" (Erma Bombeck book) |
| 40% | ERMA | 4 | "If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?" writer Bombeck |
| 39% | EVEL | 4 | First name of the role George Hamilton played in a 1971 movie where he stated "I am the last gladiator in the new Rome" |
| 38% | WEAREFAMILY | 11 | Sister Sledge classic whose second line is "I got all my sisters with me," and a hint to the starts of 17-, 24-, 39-, and 49-Across |
| 38% | POE | 3 | Writer of the line "Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December" |
| 38% | BAH | 3 | Expletive heard often if you happen to be a member of the Cratchit family |
| 38% | CASTING | 7 | I am a type of "director" who says "You're perfect for the role!" Who am I? |
| 38% | TNOTES | 6 | If you invested in a few of these $5000 items in 1979, you'll be looking at images of President James Monroe |
| 38% | AJAM | 4 | "If you're ever in ___, here I am ... " (2 wds.) |
| 38% | EIGHTH | 6 | You're __ in line if seven people arrived first |
| 38% | YODA | 4 | Speaker of the line “Powerful you have become, Dooku. The dark side I sense in you” |
| 37% | BOSS | 4 | "___ of Me" (They Might Be Giants song featured on "Malcolm in the Middle") |
| 37% | SOS | 3 | ABBA song that was the A-side of "Man in the Middle" |
| 37% | MRSANDMAN | 9 | Classic song with the line "Give him a lonely heart like Pagliacci / And lots of wavy hair like Liberace" |
| 37% | IAMSAM | 6 | First line of a Seuss classic |
| 37% | FREEDOM | 7 | A hit song by Pharrell Williams that was used in the film "Despicable Me 3" |
| 37% | SHOULDERTOCRYON | 15 | If you're feeling sad, the side of the road has a convenient ___.
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| 37% | FAE | 3 | Baby who was the first infant subject of a xenotransplant procedure in 1984 |
| 37% | NECK | 4 | "Drop by if you're ever in my ___ of the woods" |
| 37% | JANE | 4 | I am considered the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees and was named a UN Messenger of Peace in 2002 |