| 100% | VOLARE | 6 | 1958 #1 song with the lyric "Let's fly way up to the clouds" |
| 48% | SADEYES | 7 | 1979 #1 song with the lyric "Turn the other way / I don't want to see you cry" (2 wds.) |
| 47% | ILOVELA | 7 | 1983 song with the lyric "Let's leave Chicago to the Eskimos" |
| 46% | GOLDENSLUMBERS | 14 | 1969 song with the lyric "Once there was a way to get back homeward" |
| 46% | TRUECOLORS | 10 | Cyndi Lauper song with the lyric "So don't be afraid to let them show" |
| 45% | HEYJUDE | 7 | 1968 song with the lyric "Remember to let her into your heart" |
| 45% | BLACKBIRD | 9 | Beatles song with the lyric "Take these broken wings and learn to fly" |
| 43% | TOOMUCHHEAVEN | 13 | 1979 Bee Gees #1 song with the lyrics "It's as high as a mountain / And harder to climb" (3 wds.) |
| 43% | VOGUE | 5 | Madonna song with the lyric "Let your body move to the music" |
| 42% | ABC | 3 | Jackson 5 song with the lyric “It’s easy as 1, 2, 3” |
| 42% | IRONIC | 6 | Alanis Morissette song with the lyric "It's a black fly in your Chardonnay" |
| 42% | BADGIRLFRIEND | 13 | Theory of a Deadman song with the lyric "She's naughty to the end" |
| 42% | ILIE | 4 | 1982 Loretta Lynn song with the lyric "It's not easy to deceive you" |
| 41% | VOGUE | 5 | Madonna song with the lyric "Strike a pose, there's nothing to it" |
| 41% | JINGLE{BELL}S | 13 | Holiday song with the lyric "dashing all the way" |
| 41% | ESCAPADE | 8 | Janet Jackson hit song with the lyric "Come on baby, let's get away" |
| 41% | KITE | 4 | Let's go fly a __, up to the highest height |
| 40% | MANEATER | 8 | Hall & Oates song with the lyric "She'll chew you up" |
| 40% | REM | 3 | Ariana Grande song with the lyric "Don't wanna wake up" |
| 40% | MONSTERMASH | 11 | Novelty song (and #1 hit) with the lyric "Whatever happened to my Transylvania twist?" ... and an apt description of the puzzle's theme |
| 40% | ABC | 3 | Jackson 5 song with the lyric "It's easy as 1 2 3 / As simple as do re mi" |
| 40% | ABC | 3 | Jackson 5 song with the lyrics "It's easy as 1 2 3 / Or simple as do re mi" |
| 40% | ABC | 3 | Jackson 5 song with the lyrics "It's easy as 1 2 3 / As simple as do re mi" |
| 39% | ONELOVE | 7 | Classic song with the lyric "Let's get together and feel all right" |
| 39% | SPACE | 5 | With 6-Across, sort whose head is way up in the clouds |
| 39% | TILLYOULOVEME | 13 | Reba McEntire song with the lyric "I guess I can wait if that's what I have to do" |
| 39% | VOLARE | 6 | 1958 #1 song with Italian lyrics |
| 39% | CIRCLE | 6 | "The ___ Game" (Joni Mitchell song with the lyric "Cartwheels turn to car wheels through the town") |
| 39% | IWANNABESEDATED | 15 | Classic 1978 rock song with the lyric "Nothing to do / Nowhere to go" |