| 100% | BALLOFCONFUSION | 15 | 1970 Temptations hit with the subtitle "That's What the World Is Today" |
| 76% | BALLOFCONFUSION | 15 | 1970 Temptations hit subtitled "That's What the World Is Today" |
| 49% | WAR | 3 | 1970 #1 hit with the lyric "huh, yeah, What is it good for?" |
| 45% | WAR | 3 | 1970 #1 hit with the line "What is it good for?" |
| 43% | CAMELOT | 7 | Broadway hit with the song "I Wonder What the King Is Doing Tonight" |
| 42% | UPTOWNGIRL | 10 | 1983 hit with the line "She's been living in her white bread world" |
| 41% | GHOST | 5 | With 13 Across, chilis that are among the world's hottest |
| 39% | ARAL | 4 | With 45-Across, what was once the world's fourth-largest inland body of water |
| 39% | HEYYA | 5 | 2003 #1 hit with the lyric "What's cooler than being cool?" |
| 39% | BEHINDBLUEEYES | 14 | 1971 hit from the Who that begins "No one knows what it's like to be the bad man" |
| 38% | LOLA | 4 | 1970 hit with the lyric "Girls will be boys and boys will be girls" |
| 38% | BACKPACK | 8 | Travel the world with one bag, and what can be found in this puzzle's circled letters? |
| 37% | IMREAL | 6 | Jennifer Lopez hit with the lyric "What you get is what you see" |
| 37% | IMREAL | 6 | Jennifer Lopez #1 hit with the lyric "What you get is what you see" |
| 37% | FREE | 4 | What something that's "on the house" is |
| 36% | LIKEAPRAYER | 11 | Madonna hit that starts with the lyric "Life is a mystery" |
| 36% | REM | 3 | Band that had a hit with "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?" |
| 36% | KARATECHOP | 10 | What's a big hit with the school board? |
| 36% | BANYAN | 6 | ___ tree, large fig species with aerial roots that is amongst the largest trees in the world |
| 36% | EBB | 3 | With 15-Across, 1953 song that was a hit for the Righteous Brothers in 1965 |
| 36% | JUSTINBIEBER | 12 | Singer with the 2020 love song "That's What Love Is" (2 wds.) |
| 35% | TURNTURNTURN | 12 | 1965 #1 hit for the Byrds that had the subtitle "To Everything There Is a Season": 3 wds. |
| 35% | BLACKDOG | 8 | 52-Across song with the lyrics "At least I know that you are trying / But that's what makes it terrifying" (2 wds.) |
| 35% | LIDOSHUFFLE | 11 | Boz Scaggs hit with the lyric "One more for the road," and what can be found in 17-, 23-, 37-, and 48-Across? |
| 35% | CLEVELAND | 9 | With 48a, it's the name of the NBA team that is part-owned by Grammy-winning singer Usher (birthday today) |
| 35% | ZOOLANDER | 9 | 2001 movie with Frat Packers Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn, and Will Ferrell that's set in the modeling world |
| 35% | NEEDS | 5 | "What the World ___ Now Is Love" (1965 hit song) |
| 35% | ABC | 3 | 1970 #1 hit with the lyric "Easy as ..." |
| 35% | NSYNC | 5 | *Group with the 2000 #1 hit "It's Gonna Be Me" |
| 35% | SOMENIGHTS | 10 | #3 fun. hit with the same title as the album that 14-, 19- and 44-Across are on: 2 wds. |