| 100% | HELPMERHONDA | 12 | 1965 41-Across hit song with a girl's name (3 wds.) |
| 93% | BARBARAANN | 10 | 1965 41-Across hit song with a girl's name (2 wds.) |
| 76% | HELPMERHONDA | 12 | Beach Boys hit song with a girl's name (3 wds.) |
| 68% | MUSTANGSALLY | 12 | Wilson Pickett hit song with a girl's name (2 wds.) |
| 68% | SWEETCAROLINE | 13 | Neil Diamond hit song with a girl's name (2 wds.) |
| 52% | THEBEACHBOYS | 12 | 14-Across and 26-Across band who also had a hit with the 1965 song "California Girls" (3 wds.) |
| 51% | BURNINUP | 8 | 30-Across hit song with a rap verse by the band's bodyguard Robert "Big Rob" Feggans (2 wds.) |
| 48% | ONEMISSISSIPPI | 14 | 2021 Kane Brown song with a state in its name that hit the top 40: 2 wds. |
| 45% | BABYSHARK | 9 | Recent viral children's hit song with a sharp-toothed title: 2 wds. |
| 44% | MERCEDESBENZ | 12 | Janice Joplin hit song with a 44-Down in its title (2 wds.) |
| 44% | MERCURYBLUES | 12 | Alan Jackson hit song with a 44-Down in its title (2 wds.) |
| 44% | MUSTANGSALLY | 12 | Wilson Pickett hit song with a 44-Down in its title (2 wds.) |
| 44% | GWENSTEFANI | 11 | Ska punk singer who had a crossover hit with her 2005 hip hop song "Hollaback Girl" (2 wds.) |
| 44% | BIGYELLOWTAXI | 13 | 12-Down hit song with the lyric "They paved paradise and put up a parking lot" (3 wds.) |
| 44% | WHATYOUKNOW | 11 | With 42-Across, 2020 hit song that samples Ginuwine's "Differences": 3 wds. |
| 43% | THEBEACHBOYS | 12 | Band with the 1965 No. 3 Billboard hit "California Girls" (3 wds.) |
| 43% | BLUECHRISTMAS | 13 | 1957 Elvis Presley holiday song with a colorful name: 2 wds. |
| 43% | BORNINTHE | 9 | "___ U.S.A.," hit song from Bruce Springsteen's (birthday today) 1984 album by the same name: 3 wds. |
| 43% | AQUA | 4 | Had a hit song with Barbie Girl |
| 42% | LOVEBUG | 7 | 30-Across hit song with a video inspired by "The Notebook" |
| 42% | LIPSAREMOVIN | 12 | 30-Across hit song with the lyric "Talking 'round in circles with your tongue" (3 wds.) |
| 42% | MELISSA | 7 | Computer virus with a girl's name |
| 41% | SAFEANDSOUND | 12 | 2011 Capital Cities song with a prominent trumpet line: 3 wds. |
| 41% | IWILLSURVIVE | 12 | 14-Across hit song with the lyrics "Go on now, go, walk out the door" (3 wds.) |
| 41% | THREEDOGNIGHT | 13 | American rock band that had a #1 hit with 41-Across in 1971 (3 wds.) |
| 41% | EBB | 3 | With 15-Across, 1953 song that was a hit for the Righteous Brothers in 1965 |
| 41% | SOULSACRIFICE | 13 | Instrumental song by 41-Across that was a hit at Woodstock (2 wds.) |
| 41% | TEQUILA | 7 | "___ Sunrise" (Eagles hit song that shares its name with a cocktail) |
| 41% | TURNTURNTURN | 12 | 1965 Byrds hit that's a "triple": 3 wds. |
| 41% | ILIKEBIGBUTTS | 13 | With 41-Across, opening line from Sir Mix-A-Lot's 29-/30-/31-Across hit: 4 wds. |