| 100% | NEEDS | 5 | "What the World ___ Now Is Love" (1965 hit song) |
| 95% | NEEDS | 5 | "What the World ___ Now Is Love" (1965 hit song co-written by Burt Bacharach) |
| 57% | SEDATED | 7 | What the Ramones wanted to be in a 1978 hit song |
| 52% | JUSTINBIEBER | 12 | Singer with the 2020 love song "That's What Love Is" (2 wds.) |
| 50% | INTERNET | 8 | What the World Wide Web is part of |
| 50% | EBB | 3 | With 15-Across, 1953 song that was a hit for the Righteous Brothers in 1965 |
| 49% | TRUE | 4 | Spandau Ballet hit song with the lyrics "I bought a ticket to the world / But now I've come back again" |
| 49% | IKOIKO | 6 | Mardi Gras song that was a 1965 hit for the Dixie Cups |
| 49% | BAMBI | 5 | Hit 1942 film with the song "Love Is a Song" |
| 49% | BALLOFCONFUSION | 15 | 1970 Temptations hit subtitled "That's What the World Is Today" |
| 48% | LET | 3 | Hit song by The Beatles, "___ It Be" |
| 48% | RUN | 3 | "___ the World (Girls)" (Beyoncé hit song) |
| 48% | TULSA | 5 | "___ Time," hit song by country artist Don Williams which is dedicated to the city historically known as the "Oil Capital of the World" |
| 48% | INEEDLOVE | 9 | 1987 hit said to be the first hip-hop love song |
| 48% | ROOTOFALLEVIL | 13 | What the love of money is, they say |
| 47% | ARE | 3 | "We ___ the World" (1985 hit song) |
| 47% | CCRIDER | 7 | 1950s-'60s hit with the lyric "Ah, you made me love you / Now, now, now, now your man is come" |
| 47% | NET | 3 | What the ball is hit over in table tennis |
| 47% | NEEDS | 5 | “What the world ___ now ...” |
| 46% | ANN | 3 | "Barbara ___," number-one hit released by The Beach Boys in 1965 which was a cover of a song by the Regents |
| 46% | PORN | 4 | What the internet is for, according to an "Avenue Q" song |
| 46% | SEALED | 6 | What the Go-Go's lips are in a 1981 song |
| 46% | ONTOP | 5 | Imagine Dragons hit song "___ of the World" (2 wds.) |
| 45% | MAST | 4 | What Odysseus was bound to during the sirens' song |
| 45% | LIES | 4 | "Love ___," hit song by Khalid and Normani which is a part of the soundtrack for "Love, Simon" |
| 45% | CAMBRIA | 7 | The medieval name for what is now Wales |
| 45% | BALLOFCONFUSION | 15 | 1970 Temptations hit with the subtitle "That's What the World Is Today" |
| 44% | WHITE | 5 | What the color of Bing Crosby's Christmas is, in a 1942 song? |
| 44% | HALO | 4 | Beyonce hit song with the lyric “I got my angel now” |
| 44% | CREEP | 5 | Radiohead hit song with the lyric "I wish I was special" |