| 100% | DRE | 3 | Dr. ___ (rap producer with the Beats line of headphones) |
| 45% | DRE | 3 | Beats by Dr. ___ (rapper's line of headphones) |
| 43% | RICOH | 5 | Company with the Theta line of cameras |
| 42% | DRE | 3 | Beats by Dr. ___ (line of headphones) |
| 41% | DRE | 3 | Rap Dr. with a headphones brand |
| 41% | ELF | 3 | Movie with the line "Son of a nutcracker!" |
| 40% | COUPLET | 7 | Two lines of poetry with the same rhythm and rhyme |
| 39% | OLAY | 4 | Product once advertised with the line "The splendor of your skin" |
| 39% | FDIC | 4 | It has a $100 billion line of credit with the Treasury Dept. |
| 38% | ENDUPINLAST | 11 | With 73-Across, be beaten by the rest of the field |
| 38% | ACTS | 4 | Source of the line "Thy money perish with thee" |
| 38% | DRE | 3 | Dr. ___ with the rap album "The Chronic" |
| 38% | SORARE | 6 | Jimmy Dorsey standard with the line "You're like the fragrance of blossoms fair" |
| 38% | BULLDURHAM | 10 | Sports movie with the line "I believe in the Church of Baseball" (2 wds.) |
| 38% | HEYNINETEEN | 11 | Steely Dan classic with the line "She don't remember the Queen of Soul" |
| 38% | MTA | 3 | 1959 folk hit with the line "Charlie couldn't get off of that train" |
| 38% | WATERWATER | 10 | With 49-Across, famous line from "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" |
| 37% | KUBLA | 5 | "___ Khan," poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge with the line "...and drunk the milk of Paradise." |
| 37% | EMMA | 4 | Classic novel with the line "You must be the best judge of your own happiness" |
| 37% | ALIEN | 5 | 1979 movie with the line "This is Ripley, last survivor of the Nostromo, signing off" |
| 37% | YOUNGGIRL | 9 | 1968 #2 hit with the lyric "My love for you is way out of line" |
| 37% | DRE | 3 | Dr. ___, rapper and producer who is one of the richest hip hop stars |
| 37% | ISAIAH | 6 | Source of the line "They shall beat their swords into plowshares" |
| 36% | EXISTENTIALDRE | 14 | Good title for a reflective book on the life of a rap Dr.? |
| 36% | HAMMS | 5 | Old beer with the ad line "From the land of sky blue waters" |
| 36% | BATON | 5 | Stick with the beat? |
| 36% | RINGOSTARR | 10 | Beatle with the beat |
| 36% | MTM | 3 | ___ enterprises, sitcom producer of the 70s with a cat in its logo: Abbr. |
| 36% | MTM | 3 | ___ enterprises, sitcom producer of the '70s with a cat in its logo: Abbr. |
| 36% | BASTINADO | 9 | Punishment in which the soles of the feet are beaten with a stick |