| 100% | ALLAROUND | 9 | Christmas Is __; festive hit from Love Actually |
| 39% | UNCONDITIONAL | 13 | Tupac Shakur's "___ Love" that featured Nanci Fletcher and was his second posthumous single from his "Greatest Hits" album |
| 39% | MRROBOTO | 8 | Hit from the 1983 platinum album "Kilroy Was Here" |
| 38% | SOTHIS | 6 | "___ Is Love" (1962 hit) |
| 38% | HALO | 4 | Beyonce's hit from "I Am... Sasha Fierce" |
| 38% | LORDSLEAPING | 12 | Christmas gift from my true love |
| 37% | REARENDED | 9 | Hit from behind ... and what the answers to starred clues are? |
| 37% | HALO | 4 | Beyoncé hit from her "I Am... Sasha Fierce" album |
| 37% | SHE | 3 | "___ Will Be Loved" (Maroon 5 hit) |
| 37% | STRANGER | 8 | Eurythmics hit Love Is a __ |
| 37% | IBE | 3 | "When Will __ Loved?": 1975 hit |
| 36% | SHE | 3 | "___ Will Be Loved" (2004 Maroon 5 hit) |
| 36% | SHE | 3 | "___ Will Be Loved" (Maroon 5 hit song) |
| 36% | NEED | 4 | "All You __ Is Love"; Beatles hit |
| 36% | NEED | 4 | "All You ___ is Love" (Beatles hit) |
| 36% | SHALLOW | 7 | Hit song from 2018's A Star Is Born |
| 36% | CAT | 3 | What Garfield from the comics actually is |
| 35% | NEED | 4 | "All You ___ Is Love" (1967 Beatles hit) |
| 35% | ALL | 3 | "___ You Need Is Love" (The Beatles hit) |
| 35% | POODLES | 7 | These "French" dogs are actually from Germany |
| 35% | ALIE | 4 | "Your Love Is ___" (Simple Plan song from 2008) |
| 35% | HER | 3 | "I Was Made to Love ___" (Stevie Wonder hit) |
| 34% | NEEDS | 5 | "What the World ___ Now Is Love" (1965 hit song) |
| 34% | ILL | 3 | "___ Never Love Again," song from "A Star Is Born" |
| 34% | ILL | 3 | "___ Never Love Again" (song from "A Star Is Born") |
| 34% | PEACHES | 7 | 2021 #1 hit whose title is fruit from Georgia |
| 34% | MAROON5 | 7 | Band with the 2004 hit "She Will Be Loved" |
| 33% | EVERGREEN | 9 | Barbra Streisand's love theme from A Star is Born |
| 33% | WHITNEY | 7 | Singer Houston with the hit "I Will Always Love You" |
| 33% | SISSY | 5 | ___ Spacek, actress from "Carrie" who was born on Christmas Day |