| 100% | ALL | 3 | "Is it cool that I said ___ that? / Is it chill that you're in my head?" ("Delicate" lyric) |
| 46% | HEREWITHME | 10 | 2019 hit song by 17-Down featuring Chvrches with the lyrics "You're saying the words that I want you to say / There's a pain in my heart and it won't go away" (3 wds.) |
| 42% | BLEATS | 6 | What you hear in this conversation: "Nice weather we're having today." "Ewe said it. Get it? I said 'ewe'!" "Ugh, that pun was awful." "You mean ... it was baaad?" |
| 39% | CAT | 3 | "Karma is a __ / Purring in my lap 'cause it loves me": Taylor Swift lyric |
| 38% | MRDARCY | 7 | To whom it is said, “I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry” |
| 38% | COP | 3 | "But you say it in a tweet, that's a ___-out" (Swift lyric) |
| 37% | ALWAYSONMYMIND | 14 | Pet Shop Boys Top 5 song with the lyrics "I guess I never told you / I am so happy that you're mine" (4 wds.) |
| 36% | HNY | 3 | It's not cool to say this when you run into someone in May that you haven't seen for months (abbr.) |
| 35% | RBG | 3 | Initials of the person who said "Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you" |
| 35% | BLACKDOG | 8 | 52-Across song with the lyrics "At least I know that you are trying / But that's what makes it terrifying" (2 wds.) |
| 35% | AJA | 3 | Album that begins "In the corner of my eye / I saw you in Rudy's / You were very high" |
| 35% | JUSTICEGINSBURG | 15 | Subject of this puzzle, who once said "Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you" |
| 35% | HEROD | 5 | "Prove to me that you're divine, change my water into wine" singer in "Jesus Christ Superstar" |
| 34% | MARGARITAVILLE | 14 | 42-Across hit song with the lyrics "But there's booze in the blender / And soon it will render / That frozen concoction that helps me hang on" |
| 34% | REMINDME | 8 | "What was it that I said again?" |
| 34% | BROWN | 5 | "If it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life . . ." orator |
| 34% | GROUCHO | 7 | He said, "Those are my principles, and if you don't like them ... well, I have others" |
| 34% | LEIA | 4 | Film princess who says, "You came in that thing? You're braver than I thought" |
| 34% | TORNADO | 7 | "Bad luck, I guess … It was my turn, that's all. I was in the path of the ___" (quote from 18-Down) |
| 33% | TMI | 3 | "I wish I could forget you said that," in brief |
| 33% | SAHL | 4 | Satirist who said "If you were the only person left on the planet, I would have to attack you. That's my job" |
| 33% | IFEAR | 5 | "___ that I will give in to my craving" (apprehension): 2 wds. |
| 33% | PROPOSAL | 8 | "Will you marry me?" gesture that is a popular break-time sight in most stadium sports |
| 33% | SAHL | 4 | Political satirist who said "If you were the only person left on the planet, I would have to attack you. That's my job" |
| 33% | GRASS | 5 | "Is it the ___ in that field?" "No, but you're getting close." |
| 33% | ROSES | 5 | "Is it the ___ in that vase?" "No, but you're getting close." |
| 33% | ILLMOVE | 7 | Reply to "Excuse me, you're in my seat" |
| 33% | ORY | 3 | Letters that might be on your luggage tag if you're headed for a vacation in Paris, maybe |
| 33% | ISEE | 4 | ''It is frightening what __ in my head'': Monet |
| 32% | THEONETOTHEWESTOFHERE | 21 | "You caught me!," says the thief, who then admits: "The diamond isn't here in my room, but it's hidden in ___" |