| 100% | LAHR | 4 | Bert who sang "If I Only Had the Nerve" |
| 73% | LAHR | 4 | "If I Only Had the Nerve" singer Bert |
| 64% | LAHR | 4 | "If I Only Had the Nerve" singer |
| 64% | COWARDLYLION | 12 | “If I Only Had the Nerve” singer |
| 59% | LAHR | 4 | Bert who sang "If I Were King of the Forest" |
| 54% | DOROTHY | 7 | Character who sings with the Scarecrow in "If I Only Had a Brain" |
| 50% | NERVE | 5 | "If I Only Had the ___" (Cowardly Lion's song) |
| 46% | TRINI | 5 | Lopez who sang "If I Had a Hammer" |
| 44% | LAHR | 4 | First actor who sang "If I Were King of the Forest" |
| 44% | FLAMINGOS | 9 | The __, group that sang I Only Have Eyes For You |
| 43% | ERIC | 4 | Country singer ___ Church who sang "The Only Way I Know" |
| 41% | INYOURWAY | 9 | Houston sang If I should stay, I would only be __ |
| 39% | EVA | 3 | Little ___, who sang "Do the Loco-Motion with me" |
| 39% | PETESEEGER | 10 | "If I Had a Hammer" folk singer who received the Woody Guthrie Prize in 2014: 2 wds. |
| 38% | ANITA | 5 | Baker who sang "Giving You the Best That I Got" |
| 38% | GLEN | 4 | Campbell who sang "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" |
| 38% | BRAD | 4 | Paisley who sang the hit "Remind Me" with Carrie Underwood |
| 38% | KIKI | 4 | Dee who sings "I've Got the Music in Me" |
| 38% | EGOCENTRIC | 10 | Like someone who only has I's for you? ... or an apt description of the answers to starred clues |
| 38% | MERCER | 6 | Mabel who sang "Fly Me to the Moon" |
| 38% | ONCELER | 7 | Character who sings "How Bad Can I Be?" in The Lorax |
| 37% | TEVYE | 5 | Fiddler on the Roof character who sings "If I Were a Rich Man" |
| 37% | LEO | 3 | Sayer who sang the Grammy-winning "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" |
| 37% | ELSA | 4 | Animated character who sings the lyric "The cold never bothered me anyway" |
| 37% | INNOCENT | 8 | The only papal name to have ever begun with I |
| 37% | PERMITME | 8 | "If I could have the honor ..." |
| 37% | MELODICALLYSUPERVISED | 21 | Having a boss who will only communicate with you by singing? |
| 36% | DARED | 5 | Had the nerve |
| 36% | DARE | 4 | Have the nerve |
| 36% | DARES | 5 | Has the nerve |