| 100% | UPTOWNGIRL | 10 | 1983 hit with the line "She's been living in her white bread world" |
| 40% | ROYALS | 6 | 2013 Lorde hit featuring the line "I'm in love with being queen" |
| 38% | BADMOONRISING | 13 | Creedence Clearwater Revival hit with the line "I see trouble on the way," or what can be found in three long Down entries |
| 38% | VANNA | 5 | White, who in May 2013 was presented with a Guinness World Record certificate for being the world's most frequent clapper |
| 37% | BALLOFCONFUSION | 15 | 1970 Temptations hit with the subtitle "That's What the World Is Today" |
| 37% | ALWAYSBEMYBABY | 14 | Mariah Carey hit with the line "Our love will never end, no" |
| 36% | FREEFALLIN | 10 | Tom Petty hit with the opening line "She's a good girl, loves her mama" |
| 36% | SHESALADY | 9 | Tom Jones hit with the line "Always treat her with respect" |
| 36% | WAR | 3 | 1970 #1 hit with the line "What is it good for?" |
| 35% | DINAH | 5 | Someone's in the kitchen with her |
| 35% | WATERLOO | 8 | ABBA hit with the line "I was defeated, you won the war" |
| 35% | LOLA | 4 | Hit song with the line "When she squeezed me tight she nearly broke my spine" |
| 35% | JUMPINJACKFLASH | 15 | 1968 hit with the line "I was raised by a toothless, bearded hag" |
| 35% | MANEATER | 8 | 1982 #1 hit with the line "Watch out boy she'll chew you up" |
| 35% | THRIFT | 6 | "___ Shop" (Macklemore & Ryan Lewis hit with the line "got twenty dollars in my pocket") |
| 34% | ARGO | 4 | 2012 movie with the line "If I'm doing a fake movie, it's gonna be a fake hit" |
| 34% | LIAR | 4 | The truth is not in him or her |
| 34% | TIMBER | 6 | Pitbull/Ke$ha hit with the line "The bigger they are, the harder they fall" |
| 34% | MANEATER | 8 | 1982 No. 1 hit with the line “Watch out, boy, she’ll chew you up” |
| 34% | FASTCAR | 7 | Tracy Chapman hit with the line "I had a feeling I could be someone" (1988) |
| 34% | FLAG | 4 | Mexico's is green, white, and red, with an eagle in the middle |
| 34% | ARGO | 4 | Best Picture winner with the line "If I'm doing a fake movie, it's gonna be a fake hit" |
| 34% | IRIS | 4 | Goo Goo Dolls hit with the line "I just want you to know who I am" |
| 34% | IGGYAZALEA | 10 | "Fancy" singer featured on "Problem" who in 2014 became the second ever to be simultaneously #1 and #2 with her first two hits: 2 wds. |
| 34% | DIANA | 5 | Elton John's "Candle in the Wind" was rewritten to honor her |
| 33% | SAKI | 4 | Author who famously ended a short story with the line "Romance at short notice was her specialty" |
| 33% | RASPBERRYBERET | 14 | 1985 Prince hit with the lyric "And if it was warm she wouldn't wear much more" |
| 33% | BACKPACK | 8 | Travel the world with one bag, and what can be found in this puzzle's circled letters? |
| 33% | CASEYATTHEBAT | 13 | Ernest L. Thayer poem about baseball with the line "there is no joy in Mudville" (4 wds.) |
| 33% | ELO | 3 | Band with the 1977 hit "Telephone Line," in brief |