| 100% | EYEOFTHETIGER | 13 | 1982 hit for Survivor with a sign of the Chinese zodiac in its title: 4 wds. |
| 72% | WHITERABBIT | 11 | 1967 hit for Jefferson Airplane with a sign of the Chinese zodiac in its title: 2 wds. |
| 71% | DANCEMONKEY | 11 | 2019 hit for Tones and I with a sign of the Chinese zodiac in its title: 2 wds. |
| 35% | YOUREALLYGOTME | 14 | 1964 hit for the Kinks that's in the Grammy Hall of Fame: 4 wds. |
| 34% | BOFA | 4 | Financial institution with a stylized version of the Stars and Stripes in its logo, for short |
| 34% | ONEMISSISSIPPI | 14 | 2021 Kane Brown song with a state in its name that hit the top 40: 2 wds. |
| 34% | EYEOFTHETIGER | 13 | 1982 Survivor song with a sharp-toothed title: 4 wds. |
| 33% | RAPGOD | 6 | Boastful Eminem title with the Guinness world record for "most words in a hit single" (1,560) |
| 32% | BENKINGSLEY | 11 | Winner of a Best Actor Oscar for playing Gandhi, the title role of 1982's Best Picture: 2 wds. |
| 32% | JUSTTHETWOOFUS | 14 | 1981 hit with the lyric "We can make it if we try" ... or a possible title for this puzzle |
| 32% | PROUDMARY | 9 | Girl in a Tina Turner song from the soundtrack of "What's Love Got to Do with It": 2 wds. |
| 32% | NEEDSTO | 7 | "No One ___ Know" (Shania Twain hit song with the lyric "I'm gonna keep it a secret for now") (2 wds.) |
| 31% | INMYFEELINGS | 12 | Drake hit with a record-setting 116.2 million US streams in the week of July 28, 2018: 3 wds. |
| 31% | HARLEMSHAKE | 11 | Baauer hit with a record-setting 103.1 million US streams in the week of March 2, 2013: 2 wds. |
| 31% | RAPGOD | 6 | Eminem song which holds the world record for most words in a hit single with an average of 4.28 words per second: 2 wds. |
| 31% | TINSOLDIERMAN | 13 | The Kinks song with a traditional tenth anniversary gift in its title (3 wds.) |
| 31% | JAMESPALLISON | 13 | American immunologist who won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Tasuku Honjo for discovery of a cancer therapy: 3 wds. |
| 31% | IRIS | 4 | Part of the eye with a pupil in its middle |
| 31% | GIRLONFIRE | 10 | Song from Alicia Keys' fifth studio album which was a commercial hit with over 4 million paid downloads in the U.S.: 3 wds. |
| 31% | MERCEDESBENZ | 12 | Janice Joplin hit song with a 44-Down in its title (2 wds.) |
| 31% | MERCURYBLUES | 12 | Alan Jackson hit song with a 44-Down in its title (2 wds.) |
| 31% | MUSTANGSALLY | 12 | Wilson Pickett hit song with a 44-Down in its title (2 wds.) |
| 30% | WINDOFCHANGE | 12 | 1991 Scorpions song with a weather word in the title (3 wds.) |
| 30% | SHANGHAI | 8 | Chinese city in the title of a 1986 Madonna film |
| 30% | MASTHEAD | 8 | The title of a newspaper as it appears in print |
| 30% | ECLIPSE | 7 | "Total ___ of the Heart," hit song by Bonnie Tyler with a celestial phenomenon in its title |
| 30% | MICHAELKEATON | 13 | Actor who shared SAG Awards for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Motion Picture with the casts of 18-Across and 33-Across (2 wds.) |
| 30% | MTM | 3 | ___ enterprises, sitcom producer of the 70s with a cat in its logo: Abbr. |
| 30% | MTM | 3 | ___ enterprises, sitcom producer of the '70s with a cat in its logo: Abbr. |
| 30% | DRJ | 3 | Nickname of the 76ers legend with a cameo in "Hustle": 2 wds., abbr. |