| 100% | SCUSE | 5 | Hendrix biography "___ Me While I Kiss the Sky" |
| 71% | SKY | 3 | "'Scuse me while I kiss the ___" (Jimi Hendrix lyric) |
| 59% | IKISS | 5 | "'Scuse me while ___ the sky..." (Line from Hendrix's "Purple Haze"): 2 wds. |
| 56% | KISSTHE | 7 | “Excuse me while I __ sky”: Jimi Hendrix |
| 44% | SCUSE | 5 | ___ Me While I Kiss This Guy (book of misheard lyrics) |
| 42% | MONDEGREEN | 10 | Misunderstood song lyric like "'Scuse me while I kiss this guy" |
| 41% | TEACHER | 7 | When I Kissed the __; ABBA classroom scandal song |
| 41% | TIL | 3 | The Everly Brothers' "___ I Kissed You" |
| 41% | TIL | 3 | The Everly Brothers' "(___) I Kissed You" |
| 39% | ONEMORETHING | 12 | "And while I'm on the subject ..." |
| 39% | THEN | 4 | The Crystals "___ He Kissed Me" |
| 37% | FIREWORKS | 9 | Vibrant and colorful 4th of July displays that "whistle" while rocketing to the sky |
| 35% | INS | 3 | "It took me a while to learn the ___ and outs of the job" |
| 34% | MINDMYPSANDQS | 13 | What I, the constructor, had to do while making this puzzle |
| 34% | THEN | 4 | "___ He Kissed Me" (1963 pop hit for the Crystals) |
| 34% | MEN | 3 | "To the ___ Catcalling My Girlfriend While I'm Walking Beside Her" (Andrea Gibson poem) |
| 34% | LAVIEENROSE | 11 | Song with the lyric "When you kiss me heaven sighs" |
| 33% | SHREW | 5 | The Taming of the ___ (Shakespeare play that Kiss Me, Kate was based on) |
| 33% | NOBODY | 6 | Mitski single with the lyric "Give me one good movie kiss" |
| 33% | ISAWA | 5 | "Would you believe me if I told you that ___ strange object in the sky?": 3 wds. |
| 32% | ALDA | 4 | Actor with the 2007 memoir "Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself" |
| 32% | ALDA | 4 | Actor who wrote the memoir “Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself” |
| 32% | HATE | 4 | What turns the sky dark, in the Twilight Zone episode "I Am the Night—Color Me Black" |
| 32% | THRU | 4 | "Kiss Me ___ the Phone" (2009 #3 hit) |
| 32% | ALDA | 4 | Actor Alan who wrote the memoir "Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself" |
| 31% | ALDA | 4 | Actor Alan who wrote the 2007 memoir "Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself" |
| 31% | LIMIT | 5 | The sky, maybe |
| 31% | LIMIT | 5 | The sky, perhaps |
| 31% | SOULJABOYTELLEM | 15 | Rapper with the 2009 hit "Kiss Me Thru the Phone" |
| 30% | ETHER | 5 | The sky, the air |