| 100% | DAH | 3 | Comes after Zip-a-Dee-Doo, in the song |
| 57% | ETH | 3 | It comes after a verb in the Bible |
| 57% | DOT | 3 | It comes after the "www" in a Web address |
| 56% | SERA | 4 | It comes twice after "que" in a song |
| 54% | STORM | 5 | Windy and cold natural phenomenon that comes after the calm, in a saying |
| 53% | RANGE | 5 | Where the deer and the antelope play, in a song |
| 51% | GIMME | 5 | Word repeated thrice in the title of a 1979 ABBA song that asks for "A Man After Midnight" |
| 51% | WAYTORUN | 8 | In the song, "Fa, a long, long __" |
| 50% | SHANANA | 7 | Doo-wop group whose name comes from the nonsense syllables repeated in "Get a Job" (3 wds.) |
| 48% | DAISYBELL | 9 | Lady courted in the song A Bicycle Built for Two |
| 47% | VEERED | 6 | Avoided a deer in the road, say |
| 47% | LYRICS | 6 | The words in a song |
| 46% | DENY | 4 | Last word in the song "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" |
| 46% | CRATER | 6 | Hole in the ground after a meteorite impact |
| 46% | ACHY | 4 | Like legs in the days after a marathon |
| 46% | GETAJOB | 7 | Words after "She throws the want ads right my way and never fails to say," in a doo-wop classic (3 wds.) |
| 46% | ECHO | 4 | What comes after Delta in the NATO phonetic alphabet |
| 45% | SERA | 4 | Word repeated after "Que" in a classic song |
| 45% | TEENAGE | 7 | Like the "wasteland" in a classic Who song |
| 45% | COPA | 4 | The club in a famous Barry Manilow song |
| 45% | ROAM | 4 | What the buffalo do, in a classic song |
| 45% | GTO | 3 | Pontiac in a Ronny & the Daytonas hit song |
| 45% | BESEEN | 6 | Come out of the closet, in a way |
| 45% | APHRODITE | 9 | Goddess mentioned in the song "She's So High," after Cleopatra and Joan of Arc |
| 44% | LUCY | 4 | One in the sky with diamonds, according to a Beatles song |
| 44% | TIEBREAK | 8 | In tennis, after a 6-6 score, comes this |
| 44% | KNEES | 5 | Word after "Head, shoulders ...," in a children's song |
| 44% | SERA | 4 | Word repeated after "Que," in a Doris Day song |
| 44% | WILLBE | 6 | Words repeated after "Whatever" in a Doris Day song |
| 44% | THEBAYOU | 8 | Words after "Born on" in a classic CCR song |