| 100% | ACQUIRETICKETTORIDE | 19 | Get a copy of a 1965 #1 Beatles hit? |
| 56% | TRYTOSEEITMYWAY | 15 | Opening line of a 1966 #1 Beatles hit |
| 49% | RHONDA | 6 | Title woman of a 1965 Beach Boys hit |
| 48% | PLAYS | 5 | Hit songs get a lot of them |
| 48% | MIDNIGHTHOUR | 12 | Time in the title of a 1965 Wilson Pickett hit |
| 47% | HELP | 4 | Beatles hit of 1965 |
| 47% | RHONDA | 6 | Title girl of a 1965 hit song |
| 47% | PRINTSOUT | 9 | Gets a hard copy of |
| 46% | DAYTRIPPER | 10 | 1965 Beatles hit that begins "Got a good reason for taking the easy way out" |
| 46% | HELPME | 6 | Request of Rhonda, in a 1965 Beach Boys hit |
| 45% | HELPME | 6 | Request of Rhonda, in a 1965 Beach Boys hit (2 wds.) |
| 44% | WANDERINGJUDE | 13 | Lost subject of a hit Beatles song? |
| 42% | ARIANAGRANDE | 12 | "Thank U, Next" pop singer who got her seventh #1 hit with a remix of 38-Across: 2 wds. |
| 42% | SARA | 4 | Title girl of a 1986 #1 Starship hit |
| 42% | DOTHEHUSTLE | 11 | *Repeated lyric of a 1975 #1 disco hit |
| 42% | TEARS | 5 | “The ___ of a Clown” (No. 1 hit for Smokey Robinson and the Miracles) |
| 42% | BOXSEAT | 7 | Where to get a good view of a hit and run |
| 42% | ANYTHING | 8 | __ Goes, hit musical with I Get A Kick out of You |
| 42% | DIANA | 5 | Title woman of a 1957 #1 Paul Anka hit |
| 41% | NOONE | 5 | Who "can get in the way of what I feel for you," in a 2007 #1 Alicia Keys hit |
| 41% | PAPAS | 5 | "___ Got a Brand New Bag" (1965 James Brown hit) |
| 41% | WUSYANAME | 9 | 2021 Tyler, the Creator hit whose title is a mashup of a getting-to-know-you phrase |
| 41% | NAPS | 4 | Gets a bit of a rest |
| 40% | IKO | 3 | When doubled, a hit song of 1965 and 1989 |
| 40% | SLOOPY | 6 | Title name in a 1965 #1 hit |
| 40% | SLOOPY | 6 | Title girl in a 1965 #1 hit |
| 40% | RINGO | 5 | Title gunfighter of a 1964 #1 hit |
| 40% | ALLYOUNEEDISLOVE | 16 | Beatles hit that's a hint to both parts of the answer to each starred clue |
| 40% | EVE | 3 | 1965 #1 hit "___ of Destruction" |
| 40% | JUDE | 4 | Boy's name in a #1 Beatles hit |