| 100% | DONTBETHATWAY | 13 | Benny Goodman jazz standard with the opening line "April skies are in your eyes" |
| 34% | DRNO | 4 | Movie with the opening line "I admire your courage, Miss …?" |
| 32% | III | 3 | “Richard ___” (play with the opening line “Now is the winter of our discontent”) |
| 32% | BELOVED | 7 | 1987 novel with the opening lines “124 was spiteful. Full of a baby’s venom” |
| 31% | LUCY | 4 | She was in the sky with diamonds |
| 31% | ATLAST | 6 | Jazz classic with the line "My lonely days are over" |
| 31% | WAKE | 4 | Open your eyes in the morning |
| 30% | GETUPSTANDUP | 12 | Bob Marley tune with the line "Life is your right": 4 wds. |
| 29% | AMIBLUE | 7 | Standard with the lyric "Ain't these tears in my eyes tellin' you?" |
| 29% | IMALOSER | 8 | Beatles song with the line "My tears are falling like rain from the sky" |
| 29% | IMALOSER | 8 | Beatles song with the line “My tears are falling like rain from the sky” |
| 29% | UPTOWNGIRL | 10 | 1983 hit with the line "She's been living in her white bread world" |
| 29% | EMMA | 4 | Classic novel with the line "You must be the best judge of your own happiness" |
| 28% | SELLERS | 7 | Actor with the line "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!" |
| 28% | DIANAKRALL | 10 | "When I Look in Your Eyes" Best Jazz Vocal Album Grammy winner who was born on November 16, 1964 (2 wds.) |
| 28% | AFROBLUE | 8 | Mongo Santamaria jazz standard whose title is rhymed with "cocoa hue" in Oscar Brown Jr.'s lyrics |
| 28% | CASEYATTHEBAT | 13 | Ernest L. Thayer poem about baseball with the line "there is no joy in Mudville" (4 wds.) |
| 28% | SPOONMAN | 8 | 1994 Soundgarden hit whose first line is "Feel the rhythm with your hands" |
| 28% | DUCK | 4 | I'm a waterfowl who sleeps in a line with one eye open |
| 28% | ROYALS | 6 | 2013 Lorde hit featuring the line "I'm in love with being queen" |
| 28% | RAPTORS | 7 | Who “they” are, in the “Jurassic Park” line “Unless they figure out how to open doors” |
| 27% | CCRIDER | 7 | Classic blues song with the line "I'd rather be dead than to stay here and be your dog" |
| 27% | MOANIN | 6 | Jazz standard with the lyric "I'm so tired of paying my dues" |
| 27% | LSD | 3 | Drug that the song "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" is rumored to be about: Abbr. |
| 27% | STEP | 4 | "15 ___," the opening track from Radiohead's album in 18a, which was recorded with the help of a group of children |
| 27% | ROMEO | 5 | Dolly Parton song with the line "I may not be in love, but let me tell you I'm in heat" |
| 27% | CANDACEPARKER | 13 | Former LA Sparks player (now with the Chicago Sky) who was named the WNBA MVP in 2008 and 2013: 2 wds. |
| 26% | BALL | 4 | "Wrecking ___" (Miley Cyrus hit with the lyrics "I never hit so hard in love / All I wanted was to break your walls") |
| 26% | GETS | 4 | "Smoke ___ in Your Eyes" (hit song for The Platters) |
| 26% | REPOMAN | 7 | 1984 movie with the tag line "It's 4 a.m., do you know where your car is?" |