| 100% | LEANONME | 8 | Bill Withers song about friendship and support |
| 56% | LEAN | 4 | "___ On Me," song about friendship by Bill Withers that topped the Billboard Hot 100 |
| 42% | USEME | 5 | Bill Withers song |
| 40% | LEANONME | 8 | Comradely Bill Withers song |
| 40% | LEANONME | 8 | Classic Bill Withers song |
| 39% | AINT | 4 | "___ No Sunshine," Bill Withers song |
| 39% | USEME | 5 | Bill Withers song on the album "Still Bill" |
| 39% | LEAN | 4 | "___ on Me" (classic Bill Withers song) |
| 38% | USE | 3 | Bill Withers hit song "___ Me" |
| 36% | NORMALPEOPLE | 12 | 2019 Sally Rooney novel about friendship and love under late capitalism |
| 34% | LEANONME | 8 | #1 hit for Bill Withers (1972) and Club Nouveau (1987) |
| 33% | USE | 3 | "___ Me" (Bill Withers song) |
| 33% | BADBLOOD | 8 | "1989 (Taylor's Version)" song about a ruined friendship (2 wds.) |
| 32% | MANEATER | 8 | Hall and Oates song warned about her |
| 32% | LEAN | 4 | "___ on Me" (Bill Withers song) |
| 32% | AINT | 4 | "___ No Sunshine" (Bill Withers song) |
| 32% | AINT | 4 | "___No Sunshine" (Bill Withers song) |
| 32% | AINTNOSUNSHINE | 14 | Bill Withers hit, and a hint to the ends of 20-, 27- and 42-Across |
| 31% | BEST | 4 | "You're My ___ Friend," song about friendship by Queen, written by band member John Deacon for his wife |
| 31% | UMATHURMAN | 10 | Fall Out Boy song about the star of the "Kill Bill" movies: 2 wds. |
| 30% | PEGOMYHEART | 11 | Classic song about an Irish lass that was a #1 hit in 1913 and 1947 |
| 30% | THISLOVE | 8 | "1989 (Taylor's Version)" song about the ups and downs of a relationship (2 wds.) |
| 30% | LOVELYDAY | 9 | Repetitive song from Bill Withers' album Menagerie |
| 30% | BELLS | 5 | "Jingle ___," popular holiday song about sleigh rides that was originally written for Thanksgiving and not Christmas |
| 30% | VERBS | 5 | What Bill Withers, Tyra Banks and Britney Spears's names have in common |
| 29% | LEANONME | 8 | Song that was a #1 hit for Bill Withers in 1972 and for Club Nouveau in 1987: 3 wds. |
| 29% | POT | 3 | Flower — Men, long-running children’s TV show about Bill and Ben |
| 29% | LIKEJESUSDOES | 13 | 2013 Eric Church song about acceptance and love: 3 wds. |
| 29% | LEAN | 4 | With 51-Across, Bill Withers hit song that begins, "Sometimes in our lives / We all have pain" |
| 29% | LEAN | 4 | "___ on Me" (Bill Withers hit song) |