| 100% | DIXIE | 5 | Classic song with the words "Look away! Look away! Look away!" |
| 52% | ESOBESO | 7 | Classic song with the lyric "I love your kiss" |
| 51% | NOLA | 4 | Classic song with the lyric "Hear your lonesome, lovesick sweetheart calling" |
| 51% | MONSTERMASH | 11 | Classic song with the lyric "Whatever happened to my Transylvania twist?" |
| 51% | WHITERABBIT | 11 | Jefferson Airplane song with the words "Go ask Alice" |
| 50% | ODNIGHTIRENE | 12 | Classic song with the lyric "I'll see you in my dreams" |
| 50% | LOUIE | 5 | When repeated, classic song with the lyric "Me gotta go" |
| 50% | ONELOVE | 7 | Classic song with the lyric "Let's get together and feel all right" |
| 49% | MYFAIRLADY | 10 | Classic musical with the song "A Hymn to Him" |
| 48% | LETITBE | 7 | 1970 song with the lyric "Whisper words of wisdom" |
| 47% | IWANNABESEDATED | 15 | Classic 1978 rock song with the lyric "Nothing to do / Nowhere to go" |
| 47% | CCRIDER | 7 | Classic R & B song with the repeated lyric "See what you have done" |
| 46% | IRENE | 5 | Classic Broadway musical with the song "Alice Blue Gown" |
| 46% | LOUIE | 5 | When repeated, classic song with the lyric "Sayin' we gotta go, yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah" |
| 46% | SILVERBELLS | 11 | Classic Christmas song with the lyric "City sidewalks, busy sidewalks, / Dressed in holiday style" |
| 46% | MICHELLE | 8 | 1965 song with the lyric "These are words that go together well" |
| 46% | MOUNTAINHIGHVALLEYLOW | 21 | Classic song with the repeated line "If you need me, I will be nearby" ... shown symbolically in this puzzle |
| 46% | ARLO | 4 | 1968 album with the song "John Looked Down" |
| 46% | ONELOVE | 7 | Classic 1977 song with the repeated line "Let's get together and feel all right" |
| 44% | COLA | 4 | Word rhymed with "Lola," in the Kinks song |
| 44% | COLA | 4 | Word rhymed with "Lola" in the Kinks song |
| 44% | OLDDAYS | 7 | Chicago song with the lyric "Take me back / To the world gone away" (2 wds.) |
| 44% | OLDDAYS | 7 | Chicago song with the lyrics "Take me back / To the world gone away" (2 wds.) |
| 44% | DAYO | 4 | Refrain word in the song with the lyric "Come, Mister Tally Man, tally me banana" |
| 43% | CCRIDER | 7 | Classic blues song with the line "I'd rather be dead than to stay here and be your dog" |
| 42% | LETITGO | 7 | "Frozen" song with the lyrics "Turn away and slam the door / I don't care what they're going to say" (3 wds.) |
| 42% | ILOVELA | 7 | 1983 Randy Newman song with the lyric "Looks like another perfect day" |
| 41% | ITSYOU | 6 | Song from "The Music Man" with the lyric "What words could be saner or truer or plainer" |
| 41% | JOHNNYMERCER | 12 | Lyricist born 11/18/1909 who wrote the words to the 10 songs with asterisked clues |
| 41% | OTANNENBAUM | 11 | Seasonal song with a hint to the last words in 17-, 25-, 37- and 45-Across |