| 100% | HELPMERHONDA | 12 | Beach Boys hit song with a girl's name (3 wds.) |
| 74% | HELPMERHONDA | 12 | 1965 41-Across hit song with a girl's name (3 wds.) |
| 69% | MUSTANGSALLY | 12 | Wilson Pickett hit song with a girl's name (2 wds.) |
| 69% | SWEETCAROLINE | 13 | Neil Diamond hit song with a girl's name (2 wds.) |
| 66% | BARBARAANN | 10 | 1965 41-Across hit song with a girl's name (2 wds.) |
| 57% | SLOOPJOHNB | 10 | 1966 Beach Boys hit adapted from a Bahamian folk song: 3 wds. |
| 55% | FUNFUNFUN | 9 | 1964 Beach Boys hit that's a "triple": 3 wds. |
| 53% | FUNFUNFUN | 9 | Beach Boys hit song (3 wds.) |
| 50% | FUNFUNFUN | 9 | 1964 Beach Boys hit that references a T-Bird: 3 wds. |
| 48% | ONEMISSISSIPPI | 14 | 2021 Kane Brown song with a state in its name that hit the top 40: 2 wds. |
| 48% | IGETAROUND | 10 | 1964 Beach Boys song on a road trip playlist?: 3 wds. |
| 45% | BURNINUP | 8 | 30-Across hit song with a rap verse by the band's bodyguard Robert "Big Rob" Feggans (2 wds.) |
| 45% | BABYSHARK | 9 | Recent viral children's hit song with a sharp-toothed title: 2 wds. |
| 44% | KOKOMO | 6 | 1988 Beach Boys hit with a geographical title |
| 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% | BLUECHRISTMAS | 13 | 1957 Elvis Presley holiday song with a colorful name: 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% | IGETAROUND | 10 | 1964 Beach Boys hit that was the band's first #1 single: 3 wds. |
| 43% | SURFINUSA | 9 | 1963 Beach Boys hit that's a rewrite of Chuck Berry's "Sweet Little Sixteen": 2 wds. |
| 43% | IWANTIT | 7 | "___ That Way," a hit song by the Backstreet Boys: 3 wds. |
| 43% | BORNINTHE | 9 | "___ U.S.A.," hit song from Bruce Springsteen's (birthday today) 1984 album by the same name: 3 wds. |
| 43% | HELPME | 6 | With 32-Across, 1965 Beach Boys hit that was not based on a specific woman: 2 wds. |
| 43% | AQUA | 4 | Had a hit song with Barbie Girl |
| 42% | SAFEANDSOUND | 12 | 2011 Capital Cities song with a prominent trumpet line: 3 wds. |
| 42% | RHONDA | 6 | Girl in a Beach Boys hit |
| 42% | JOHNNYCASH | 10 | Country singer with the 1969 crossover hit "A Boy Named Sue": 2 wds. |
| 42% | MELISSA | 7 | Computer virus with a girl's name |