| 100% | GOODLUCKBABE | 12 | 19-Across song with the lyric "You'd have to stop the world to stop the feeling" |
| 50% | BYE | 3 | "___ ___ ___" (NSYNC song with the lyrics "I just want to tell you that I've had enough") |
| 50% | WEARY | 5 | Solange song with the lyric "You're feeling like you're chasing the world" |
| 50% | MANINTHEMIRROR | 14 | 1988 hit song by 45-Across with the lyrics "If you want to make the world a better place / Take a look at yourself, and then make a change" (4 wds.) |
| 49% | REVOLUTION | 10 | 1968 song with the lyric "We all want to change the world" |
| 47% | GREENEYES | 9 | 52-Across song with the lyric "You gotta trust how you feel inside" (2 wds.) |
| 47% | THEMAN | 6 | Taylor Swift song with the lyric "Every conquest I had made would make me more of a boss to you" |
| 47% | ILL | 3 | "___ stop the world and melt with you" (song lyric) |
| 45% | OLDDAYS | 7 | Chicago song with the lyric "Take me back / To the world gone away" (2 wds.) |
| 45% | OLDDAYS | 7 | Chicago song with the lyrics "Take me back / To the world gone away" (2 wds.) |
| 44% | OLDDAYS | 7 | Chicago song with the lyrics "Take me back / To a world gone away" (2 wds.) |
| 44% | GUMP | 4 | Weird Al song with the lyric "He told JFK that he really had to pee" |
| 44% | TRUE | 4 | Spandau Ballet song with the lyrics "I bought a ticket to the world / But now I've come back again" |
| 43% | TRUE | 4 | Spandau Ballet hit song with the lyrics "I bought a ticket to the world / But now I've come back again" |
| 43% | FORYOUBLUE | 10 | Song from 47-Across with the lyrics "I feel it now, I hope you feel it too" (3 wds.) |
| 43% | HELLO | 5 | Adele hit song with the lyric "When I call, you never seem to be home" |
| 43% | TRAITOR | 7 | Olivia Rodrigo song with the lyrics "You betrayed me / And I know that you'll never feel sorry" |
| 43% | ILIE | 4 | 1982 Loretta Lynn song with the lyric "It's not easy to deceive you" |
| 42% | ALLNIGHTLONG | 12 | 1983 No. 1 song by 44-Across with the lyrics "Well, my friends, the time has come / To raise the roof and have some fun" (3 wds.) |
| 42% | ROXANNE | 7 | 39-Across song with the line "You don't have to put on the red light" |
| 42% | MATILDA | 7 | Single on 37-Across with the lyric "You don't have to go home" |
| 41% | MAPS | 4 | Maroon 5 hit song with the lyric "When all the roads you took came back to me" |
| 41% | CCRIDER | 7 | Classic R & B song with the repeated lyric "See what you have done" |
| 41% | CAROLINE | 8 | 52-Across song with the lyrics "I saw something inside her break / Everybody knows the feeling" |
| 41% | THATWASNTME | 11 | Song by 32-Across with the lyrics "I'm not asking you to move on or forget it / But these are better days" (3 wds.) |
| 41% | TILLYOULOVEME | 13 | Reba McEntire song with the lyric "I guess I can wait if that's what I have to do" |
| 40% | HERO | 4 | Mariah Carey song with the lyrics "So when you feel like hope is gone / Look inside you and be strong" |
| 40% | SADEYES | 7 | 1979 #1 song with the lyric "Turn the other way / I don't want to see you cry" (2 wds.) |
| 40% | CLOSINGTIME | 11 | Semisonic hit with the lyrics "You don't have to go home / But you can't stay here" |
| 40% | MONEYONMYMIND | 13 | 46-Across song from the album "In the Lonely Hour" with the lyric "I felt pressure / Don't want to see the numbers" (4 wds.) |