| 100% | WILLIENELSON | 12 | Country music legend whose 73rd solo studio album is "I Don't Know a Thing About Love: The Songs of 17-Across" (2 wds.) |
| 30% | LESMISERABLES | 13 | Musical with the song "I Dreamed a Dream" which was also the name of Scottish singer Susan Boyle's (birthday today) debut album: 2 wds. |
| 29% | JASONALDEAN | 11 | Country singer whose album "They Don't Know" topped the Billboard 200 in 2016: 2 wds. |
| 29% | NOW | 3 | "Don't Stop Me ___," 1979 song by Queen which is a part of the album "Jazz" |
| 29% | STEVEMARTIN | 11 | "The Jerk" actor whose first solo music album, "The Crow: New Songs for the 5-String Banjo" won a Grammy for Best Bluegrass Album: 2 wds. |
| 28% | CROCODILEROCK | 13 | Elton John song on "Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player" whose title ends with a music genre (2 wds.) |
| 28% | JOHNFOGERTY | 11 | Singer/songwriter whose song 17-Across was honored by the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2010 (2 wds.) |
| 27% | ALOT | 4 | "___ of people don't know this about me": 2 wds. |
| 27% | MUDONTHETIRES | 13 | Studio album that was #1 on the "Billboard" Top Country Albums chart and whose title track was Brad Paisley's fourth #1 hit on the "Billboard" Hot Country Songs chart (4 wds.) |
| 26% | BRADPAISLEY | 11 | Country music superstar who co-wrote the 2011 autobiography "Diary of a Player: How My Musical Heroes Made a Guitar Man Out of Me" (2 wds.) |
| 26% | DAYBREAKS | 9 | 2016 studio album by 47-Across featuring a cover of the jazz standard "Peace" (2 wds.) |
| 26% | BYNOW | 5 | "If You Don't Know Me ___" (Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes song) (2 wds.) |
| 26% | CAR | 3 | "I'm In Love With My ___," 1975 song by Queen which is a part of the album "A Night at the Opera" |
| 25% | APPLETURNOVER | 13 | "I don't really know the employees in the tech store anymore because there's been a lot of ___" |
| 25% | THEPOLICE | 9 | Band whose 1980 "Zenyatta Mondatta" album includes the Top 10 song "Don't Stand So Close to Me" (2 wds.) |
| 25% | TAKE | 4 | "Don't have to always be right, let me ___ some of the punches" (lyric from a 2005 song) |
| 25% | YOUWEREHERE | 11 | "Wish ___," title song of Pink Floyd's ninth studio album which was also a tribute to Syd Barrett: 3 wds. |
| 25% | ONTHEROADAGAIN | 14 | Song by 30-Across/33-Across that won a Grammy Award for Best Country Song and was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame (4 wds.) |
| 25% | GETBACK | 7 | Song from 47-Across with the lyrics "Jojo was a man who thought he was a loner / But he knew it couldn't last" (2 wds.) |
| 25% | EMMYLOUHARRIS | 13 | Country Music Hall of Fame singer who collaborated with 28-Across and 43-Across on the Grammy-winning 1987 album "Trio" (2 wds.) |
| 25% | THOMASRHETT | 11 | 17-Across and 28-Across singer who was the 2019 Academy of Country Music's Male Artist of the Year (2 wds.) |
| 25% | JASONALDEAN | 11 | 17-Across and 30-Across country singer who was named ACM's Artist of the Decade for the 2010s (2 wds.) |
| 25% | CLOSETOME | 9 | "Don't Stand So ___," a hit song by the band led by Sting - whose birthday it is today: 3 wds. |
| 25% | INTOTHEWILD | 11 | Debut solo studio album by 36-Across that features the Golden Globe-winning song "Guaranteed" (3 wds.) |
| 25% | LAUDER | 6 | Harry —, Scottish music hall entertainer whose songs include I Love a Lassie and Roamin' in the Gloamin' |
| 25% | REBAMCENTIRE | 12 | Country superstar whose 18-Across album is a companion to her book subtitled "Simple Lessons on Living, Loving, Eating, and Dusting Off Your Boots" (2 wds.) |
| 24% | ONEFINEDAY | 10 | 1980 Carole King song about a love-to-be that was recorded earlier by the Chiffons: 3 wds. |
| 24% | NOTTOOLATE | 10 | 2007 studio album by 47-Across featuring the song "Thinking About You" (3 wds.) |
| 24% | JOHNNYCASH | 10 | Country music legend honored on a postage stamp in 2013: 2 wds. |
| 24% | PRETTYWOMAN | 11 | 1990 Garry Marshall film starring 17-Across and 28-Across whose title was inspired by a Roy Orbison song (2 wds.) |