| 100% | DURANTE | 7 | "You Gotta Start Off Each Day With a Song" singer |
| 44% | ALKALINE | 8 | Gwyneth starts each day with a glass of this water |
| 43% | PERHAPS | 7 | Repeated word in a Doris Day song with the lyrics "If you can't make your mind up / We'll never get started" |
| 40% | ABC | 3 | Start of a kids' song that ends "Next time won't you sing with me?" |
| 36% | ELLIEGOULDING | 13 | "Love Me Like You Do" singer whose first and last names each start and end with the same letter: 2 wds. |
| 35% | QUESERA | 7 | Start of a Doris Day song title |
| 34% | QUE | 3 | With 61-Down, start of a 1956 song title |
| 34% | PINKNUMBER | 10 | Song from a one-named singer with three Grammys? |
| 34% | SLOANE | 6 | She took a day off with Ferris |
| 34% | CASSETTE | 8 | (1/6) "It's a day in the '90s ... You pop this tiny, rectangular device in your tape recorder, and start recording your favorite song!" |
| 34% | MINNIE | 6 | Singer Riperton with the 1975 No.1 song "Lovin' You" |
| 33% | DERULO | 6 | Singer Jason, who had a hit with Take You Dancing |
| 33% | SLOWSTART | 9 | What you might get on a day off |
| 33% | OSAY | 4 | Start of a song that ends with "brave" |
| 33% | TOWEL | 5 | What you dry off with after a bath |
| 33% | KATYPERRY | 9 | Starting in 2010, pop singer with a song in the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 for 69 consecutive weeks: 2 wds. |
| 33% | WCFIELDS | 8 | "Start every day off with a smile and get it over with" |
| 33% | HER | 3 | Singer/songwriter with the 2021 Oscar-winning song "Fight for You" |
| 33% | BASIL | 5 | Singer Toni who had a hit with the 1982 song "Mickey" |
| 33% | STEIN | 5 | Ben with a cameo as a monotonous teacher in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" |
| 33% | ABCS | 4 | Subject of a song that ends "Next time won't you sing with me?" |
| 33% | RIHANNA | 7 | Starting in 2010, R&B singer with a song in the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 for 46 consecutive weeks |
| 32% | FIFTEENMEN | 10 | Start of a song with the cry "Yo-ho-ho" |
| 32% | LAYLA | 5 | Song with the line "Like a fool, I fell in love with you" |
| 32% | BAA | 3 | Start of a children's rhyme with the line "Have you any wool?" |
| 32% | FIRE | 4 | What you can start with a book of matches |
| 32% | LETSDOITAGAIN | 13 | 1975 movie starring 51-Across with a #1 title song by the Staple Singers: 4 wds. |
| 32% | OTISSTAPLESSOLO | 15 | *Soul musician Redding attaches the pages for a song with no parts for his backup singers? |
| 32% | TEES | 4 | Starts a course, with "off" |