| 100% | WEB | 3 | "Spins a ___, any size / Catches thieves just like flies! (lyrics in the Spider-Man theme song) |
| 41% | GLADYOUEXIST | 12 | Dan + Shay song with the lyrics "Hey, look what a hello from a stranger turned into / Caught up in a moment like it's just us in this room" (3 wds.) |
| 35% | IRONIC | 6 | Alanis Morissette song with the lyric "It's a black fly in your Chardonnay" |
| 32% | OLD | 3 | Like the man in a Hemingway title |
| 31% | LAYLA | 5 | Clapton song with the lyric “Like a fool, I fell in love with you” |
| 31% | OURKINDOFLOVE | 13 | Lady A song with the lyrics "You wear your smile like a summer sky / Just shining down on me and you" (4 wds.) |
| 31% | OURKINDOFLOVE | 13 | Lady Antebellum song with the lyrics "You wear your smile like a summer sky / Just shining down on me and you" (4 wds.) |
| 31% | TEENAGE | 7 | Like the "wasteland" in a classic Who song |
| 31% | BROWNEYED | 9 | Like the girl in a Van Morrison song |
| 31% | LAYLA | 5 | Eric Clapton song with the lyric "Like a fool, I fell in love with you" |
| 31% | TIN | 3 | Like the man in Oz who wanted a heart |
| 30% | NAB | 3 | Catch a thief in the act |
| 30% | LONG | 4 | Lengthy, just like the song titles in 21a, 28a, 52a, 7d, and 43d |
| 30% | HANGED | 6 | Like the man on the twelfth trump in a tarot deck |
| 30% | GARBLE | 6 | Confuse, as the words in a song's lyrics |
| 30% | CIA | 3 | “Party in the ___” (Weird Al song with the lyric “Tappin’ the phones like yeah”) |
| 30% | NEW | 3 | Like a drug wished for in a Huey Lewis & the News song |
| 30% | TEENIE | 6 | Like the yellow polka dot bikini, in a 1960 #1 novelty song |
| 30% | FITS | 4 | Is just the right size, like a well-tailored garment |
| 29% | DAYO | 4 | Refrain word in the song with the lyric "Come, Mister Tally Man, tally me banana" |
| 29% | LADYMADONNA | 11 | Beatles song with the lyric "Sunday morning creeping like a nun" |
| 29% | AMERICANPIE | 11 | *1971 song with the lyric "Helter skelter in a summer swelter" |
| 29% | LOLA | 4 | She "walked like a woman and talked like a man," in a Kinks song |
| 29% | COKE | 4 | "I'd like to buy the world a ___" (classic ad song lyric) |
| 29% | THIS | 4 | "___ Is It," theme song sung by Polly Cutter in the 1975 series "One Day at a Time" |
| 29% | LOLA | 4 | Woman who "walks like a woman but talks like a man" in a Kinks song |
| 29% | YAKETYYAK | 9 | Lyric that precedes “don’t talk back” in a 1958 hit song by the Coasters |
| 28% | GIMME | 5 | Word repeated thrice in the title of a 1979 ABBA song that asks for "A Man After Midnight" |
| 28% | RENO | 4 | "But I shot a man in ___ just to watch him die" (Johnny Cash lyric) |