| 100% | SIMCITY | 7 | Hit computer game with the original working title Micropolis |
| 38% | SVU | 3 | Spin-off with the original title Sex Crimes |
| 37% | ISAAK | 5 | Chris with the 1991 hit "Wicked Game" |
| 36% | ISAAK | 5 | Chris with the top 10 hit "Wicked Game" |
| 36% | DEL | 3 | Singer Lana ___ Rey with the hit "Video Games" |
| 35% | SIMONSAYS | 9 | Playground game with a boy's name in the title |
| 33% | RAMADING | 8 | *1957 hit by the Edsels with a nonsense title |
| 33% | ROCKLOBSTER | 11 | B-52s hit with a crustacean in the title |
| 33% | SCIFI | 5 | Genre of many works with "star" in the title |
| 33% | ENTER | 5 | Computer key hit with the right pinkie |
| 33% | STICK | 5 | What you hit the ball with during a hockey game? |
| 33% | BAT | 3 | What you hit the ball with during a baseball game? |
| 33% | SCIFI | 5 | Genre of many works with "star" in the title (Hyph.) |
| 32% | CUE | 3 | What you hit the white ball with during a billiards game? |
| 32% | SIE/MCITY | 9 | Video game whose working title was Micropolis |
| 32% | ELLIOTT | 7 | Missy ___ with the 2002 hit "Work It" |
| 32% | ANTI | 4 | Rihanna album with the hit single "Work" |
| 32% | THESIMS | 7 | Computer game with virtual people |
| 32% | SIMS | 4 | Best-selling computer game from the early 2000s, with "The" |
| 32% | TAB | 3 | Computer key usually hit with the left pinkie |
| 32% | ENTER | 5 | Computer key usually hit with the right pinkie |
| 32% | ANTI | 4 | 2016 Rihanna album with the hit single "Work" |
| 32% | MINECRAFT | 9 | Computer game with creepers and skeletons |
| 32% | WHATSLOVE | 9 | With 14- and 16-Across, Tina Turner hit or the title of her 1993 biopic |
| 31% | GONOW | 5 | First hit by the Moody Blues (whose title ends with an exclamation point) |
| 31% | HARMONY | 7 | Fifth ___ (Girl group with the hit "Work from Home") |
| 31% | JUMPMAN | 7 | 2015 Future hit with Drake whose title alludes to the leaping Air Jordan logo |
| 31% | MISSYELLIOTT | 12 | Female rapper with the 2002 hit "Work It": 2 wds. |
| 31% | CRAZYSEXYCOOL | 13 | 1994 TLC album with the #1 hits "Creep" and "Waterfalls" whose title is a mash-up of three adjectives |
| 31% | MINORITYLEADER | 14 | Original title of a nonfiction work by 45-Across republished as "Lead from the Outside" (2 wds.) |