| 100% | IWILLSURVIVE | 12 | 14-Across hit song with the lyrics "Go on now, go, walk out the door" (3 wds.) |
| 79% | IWILLSURVIVE | 12 | 1979 Gloria Gaynor #1 song with the lyrics "Go on now, go, walk out the door" (3 wds.) |
| 48% | ELEVATORGIRL | 12 | Song on 14-Across with the lyrics "No matter what you say or what you do / You're going do-do-do-do-do-down" (2 wds.) |
| 48% | TRAVELINBAND | 12 | Creedence Clearwater Revival hit song with the lyrics "Seven thirty seven comin' out of the sky / Won't you take me down to Memphis on a midnight ride" (2 wds.) |
| 47% | LIPSAREMOVIN | 12 | 30-Across hit song with the lyric "Talking 'round in circles with your tongue" (3 wds.) |
| 46% | BADMOONRISING | 13 | Creedence Clearwater Revival hit song with the lyrics "Don't go 'round tonight / It's bound to take your life" (3 wds.) |
| 46% | MARYDID | 7 | With 43-Across, 52-Across song with the lyric "Your baby boy would one day walk on water": 2 wds. |
| 46% | BESTSONGEVER | 12 | 44-Across hit single with the lyrics "We knew every line, now I can't remember / How it goes but I know that I won't forget her" (3 wds.) |
| 44% | WEDONTTALK | 10 | With 36-Across, song from 16-Across that hit #1 on the Billboard charts: 3 wds. |
| 44% | LETITGO | 7 | "Frozen" song with the lyrics "Turn away and slam the door / I don't care what they're going to say" (3 wds.) |
| 44% | BEENLIKETHIS | 12 | 30-Across and T-Pain hit song with the lyric "That type of boom-boom, that bass" (3 wds.) |
| 44% | GOLDDUSTWOMAN | 13 | 1977 Fleetwood Mac song with the lyric "pick up the pieces and go home": 3 wds. |
| 43% | NEEDSTO | 7 | "No One ___ Know" (Shania Twain hit song with the lyric "I'm gonna keep it a secret for now") (2 wds.) |
| 43% | WHATCOMESNEXT | 13 | Song sung by 15-Across with the lyric "You're on your own. Awesome. Wow" (3 wds.) |
| 43% | DECKTHEHALLS | 12 | Christmas song with the lyric "Don we now our gay apparel" (3 wds.) |
| 43% | WORLDONFIRE | 11 | Song by 40-Across on 48-Across with the lyric "Whatcha gonna do when it all burns down?" (3 wds.) |
| 43% | ALLSTAR | 7 | Smash Mouth hit with the lyric "Get your game on, go play": 2 wds. |
| 42% | IMONFIRE | 8 | Bruce Springsteen hit song with the lyric "Only you can cool my desire" (3 wds.) |
| 42% | COUNTRYROAD | 11 | 1971 song with the lyrics "take to the highway" that's on James Taylor's "Greatest Hits" album: 2 wds. |
| 42% | IMISSYOU | 8 | Song on the 50-Across album "25" with the line "Baby, don't let the lights go down" (3 wds.) |
| 42% | STORYOFMYLIFE | 13 | 44-Across hit single with the lyrics "Written on these walls are / The colors that I can't change" (4 wds.) |
| 42% | FORYOUBLUE | 10 | Song from 47-Across with the lyrics "I feel it now, I hope you feel it too" (3 wds.) |
| 42% | WOMANAMEN | 9 | Hit song by 44-Across with the lyrics "Every night I should be on my knees / Lord knows how lucky I am" (2 wds.) |
| 42% | THEREFOREIAM | 12 | Song with the lyric "You think that you're the man / I think ... " on 43-Across's new album, "Happier Than Ever" (3 wds.) |
| 41% | DARLINGNIKKI | 12 | Song with controversial lyrics on the album 28-Across (2 wds.) |
| 41% | BIGYELLOWTAXI | 13 | 12-Down hit song with the lyric "They paved paradise and put up a parking lot" (3 wds.) |
| 41% | ESCAPADE | 8 | Janet Jackson hit song with the lyric "Come on baby, let's get away" |
| 41% | TWOOFUS | 7 | Song from 47-Across with the lyrics "You and me Sunday driving, not arriving / On our way back home" (3 wds.) |
| 41% | HALO | 4 | Beyonce hit song with the lyric “I got my angel now” |
| 40% | THEBEACHBOYS | 12 | 14-Across and 26-Across band who also had a hit with the 1965 song "California Girls" (3 wds.) |