| 100% | ARE | 3 | "That's What Friends __ For" |
| 100% | ARE | 3 | ''That's what friends __ for'' |
| 100% | ARE | 3 | "That's what friends ___ for" |
| 95% | ARE | 3 | "That's What Friends __ For"; Warwick hit |
| 86% | STEVIEWONDER | 12 | "Superstition" singer featured on "That's What Friends Are For": 2 wds. |
| 83% | DIONNEWARWICK | 13 | "Walk On By" singer featured on "That's What Friends Are For": 2 wds. |
| 82% | DIONNEWARWICK | 13 | "That's What Friends Are For" singer who received a 2023 Kennedy Center Honor: 2 wds. |
| 73% | FOR | 3 | "That's What Friends Are ___" |
| 70% | COURAGE | 7 | What Dorothy's friend the Lion was searching for |
| 67% | GLADYSKNIGHT | 12 | "Midnight Train to Georgia" singer featured on 1985's "That's What Friends Are For": 2 wds. |
| 66% | TREASURE | 8 | What might be inside a chest that a pirate's looking for |
| 65% | WIFI | 4 | What you might want the password for at a friend's house: Hyph. |
| 65% | SETI | 4 | Grp. that hasn't yet found what it's looking for |
| 63% | PENDINGPALS | 11 | Those waiting for Facebook friend acceptance? |
| 63% | ARE | 3 | "What ___ friends for?" |
| 62% | WHAT | 4 | "That's ___ Friends Are For," Grammy-winning song covered by Dionne Warwick & Friends that is about friendship |
| 62% | SINE | 4 | What the S of "sohcahtoa" stands for |
| 61% | SAT | 3 | What S stands for in "SNL," for short |
| 61% | SOVIET | 6 | What the first S in USSR stood for |
| 61% | SOVIET | 6 | What the first S stood for in USSR |
| 60% | EVENT | 5 | That's what happens |
| 60% | POSTHOCERGOPROPTERHOC | 21 | What's more, one of those friends won the lottery right after solving it — coincidence? I think not! |
| 59% | OOPSIE | 6 | “Shoot—that’s not what I was going for!” |
| 59% | AMIGA | 5 | Commodore computer that's a Spanish word for "friend" |
| 59% | OPINION | 7 | That's what you think |
| 59% | OPINION | 7 | That's what you think! |
| 59% | LESS | 4 | Amount that's settled for |
| 59% | CIA | 3 | Organization that James Bond's American friend Felix Leiter works for: Abbr. |
| 58% | SPILLEDMILK | 11 | Metaphor for something that can't be changed, and what's found five times in this puzzle? |
| 57% | IGET | 4 | "That's what___for..." ("Stupid me!") |