| 100% | LIPSAREMOVIN | 12 | 30-Across hit song with the lyric "Talking 'round in circles with your tongue" (3 wds.) |
| 51% | BADMOONRISING | 13 | Creedence Clearwater Revival hit song with the lyrics "Don't go 'round tonight / It's bound to take your life" (3 wds.) |
| 51% | BEENLIKETHIS | 12 | 30-Across and T-Pain hit song with the lyric "That type of boom-boom, that bass" (3 wds.) |
| 49% | PILLSNPOTIONS | 13 | Nicki Minaj hit song from "The Pinkprint" with the lyric "I get high off your memory / In due time we'll be fine" (3 wds.) |
| 48% | GETONYOURFEET | 13 | Gloria Estefan hit song with the lyric "The weight is off your shoulder" (4 wds.) |
| 47% | IWILLSURVIVE | 12 | 14-Across hit song with the lyrics "Go on now, go, walk out the door" (3 wds.) |
| 46% | WHATCOMESNEXT | 13 | Song sung by 15-Across with the lyric "You're on your own. Awesome. Wow" (3 wds.) |
| 45% | IMONFIRE | 8 | Bruce Springsteen hit song with the lyric "Only you can cool my desire" (3 wds.) |
| 45% | POKERFACE | 9 | Hit song by 42-Across with the lyrics "I wanna hold 'em like they do in Texas, please" (2 wds.) |
| 45% | PILLSNPOTIONS | 13 | Hit single on "The Pinkprint" with the lyrics "I get high off your memory / In due time we'll be fine" (3 wds.) |
| 43% | BIGYELLOWTAXI | 13 | 12-Down hit song with the lyric "They paved paradise and put up a parking lot" (3 wds.) |
| 43% | THELOVEILOST | 12 | 1973 hit single by 44-Across and 30-Across with the lyrics "Take a good look at me / I'm in misery, can't you see?" (4 wds.) |
| 43% | INVISIBLE | 9 | 52-Across song with the lyric "Then I could just watch you in your room" |
| 43% | BOTHSIDESNOW | 12 | 12-Down hit song that begins with the lyrics "Rows and flows of angel hair / And ice cream castles in the air" (3 wds.) |
| 42% | SHELOVESYOU | 11 | 1963 Beatles song with the lyric "Yeah, yeah, yeah": 3 wds. |
| 42% | BURNINUP | 8 | 30-Across hit song with a rap verse by the band's bodyguard Robert "Big Rob" Feggans (2 wds.) |
| 42% | BEATIT | 6 | Michael Jackson hit song with the lyric "No one wants to be defeated" (2 wds.) |
| 42% | THETIDE | 7 | With 18-Across, Blondie #1 hit with the lyric "I'm gonna be your number one": 2 wds. |
| 41% | BLACKHOLESUN | 12 | #1 hit song for 29-Across with the lyric "Won't you come / And wash away the rain" (3 wds.) |
| 41% | MARGARITAVILLE | 14 | 42-Across hit song with the lyrics "But there's booze in the blender / And soon it will render / That frozen concoction that helps me hang on" |
| 41% | WEDONTTALK | 10 | With 36-Across, song from 16-Across that hit #1 on the Billboard charts: 3 wds. |
| 41% | GOLDDUSTWOMAN | 13 | 1977 Fleetwood Mac song with the lyric "pick up the pieces and go home": 3 wds. |
| 41% | DRUNKONAPLANE | 13 | Hit song by 44-Across with the lyrics "'Cause I taped your picture to the seatback right beside me / Now I've got empty mini bottles fillin' both our trays" (4 wds.) |
| 40% | JUNEINJANUARY | 13 | Dean Martin love song with the lyrics "It always is spring in my heart / With you in my arms" (3 wds.) |
| 40% | IREALLYLIKEYOU | 14 | 2015 hit song by 49-Across with the lyrics "But how'd we get in this position? / It's way too soon, I know this isn't love" (4 wds.) |
| 40% | THISKISS | 8 | Faith Hill hit song with the lyrics "It's centrifugal motion / It's perpetual bliss" (2 wds.) |
| 40% | TEARINMYHEART | 13 | Twenty One Pilots single from "Blurryface" with the lyrics "The songs on the radio are okay / But my taste in music is your face" (4 wds.) |
| 40% | SUNDAYMORNING | 13 | Maroon 5 song with the lyric "Come and rest your bones with me" (2 wds.) |
| 40% | 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. |
| 40% | BOSTONREDSOX | 12 | Team with which 30-Across won the World Series in 2004: 3 wds. |