| 100% | POKERFACE | 9 | Hit song by 43-Across with the lyrics "Love Game intuition play the cards with spades to start" (2 wds.) |
| 46% | POKERFACE | 9 | Hit song by 42-Across with the lyrics "I wanna hold 'em like they do in Texas, please" (2 wds.) |
| 44% | TELEPHONE | 9 | Hit song by 43-Across with the lyrics "Stop callin' / I don't wanna talk anymore" |
| 44% | BABYHOLDON | 10 | 1978 Top 20 hit by 43-Across with the lyrics "Whatever will be, will be / The future is ours to see" (3 wds.) |
| 44% | DRUNKONAPLANE | 13 | Hit song by 44-Across with the lyrics "'Cause I taped your picture to the seatback right beside me / Now I've got empty mini bottles fillin' both our trays" (4 wds.) |
| 44% | APPLAUSE | 8 | Hit song by 43-Across with the lyrics "Live for the way that you cheer and scream for me" |
| 43% | IREALLYLIKEYOU | 14 | 2015 hit song by 49-Across with the lyrics "But how'd we get in this position? / It's way too soon, I know this isn't love" (4 wds.) |
| 43% | WOMANAMEN | 9 | Hit song by 44-Across with the lyrics "Every night I should be on my knees / Lord knows how lucky I am" (2 wds.) |
| 43% | MANINTHEMIRROR | 14 | 1988 hit song by 45-Across with the lyrics "If you want to make the world a better place / Take a look at yourself, and then make a change" (4 wds.) |
| 43% | ALLSTAR | 7 | Smash Mouth hit with the lyric "Get your game on, go play": 2 wds. |
| 43% | SMOOTHCRIMINAL | 14 | 1988 hit song by 45-Across with the lyrics "Annie, are you okay? Annie, are you okay? Are you okay, Annie?" (2 wds.) |
| 42% | COUNTRYROAD | 11 | 1971 song with the lyrics "take to the highway" that's on James Taylor's "Greatest Hits" album: 2 wds. |
| 40% | SOSAD | 5 | "___ (To Watch Good Love Go Bad)," a hit song by the Everly Brothers: 2 wds. |
| 39% | SPARKSFLY | 9 | Song on 15-Across with the lyrics "I'm captivated by you, baby / Like a fireworks show" (2 wds.) |
| 39% | MARYDID | 7 | With 43-Across, 52-Across song with the lyric "Your baby boy would one day walk on water": 2 wds. |
| 39% | THATWASNTME | 11 | Song by 32-Across with the lyrics "I'm not asking you to move on or forget it / But these are better days" (3 wds.) |
| 38% | BEATIT | 6 | Michael Jackson hit song with the lyric "No one wants to be defeated" (2 wds.) |
| 38% | HEATWAVE | 8 | Martha and the Vandellas hit song that starts, "Whenever I'm with him / Something inside / Starts to burning" (2 wds.) |
| 38% | NIGHTMOVES | 10 | Top 10 song by 46-Across with the lyrics "Out in the back seat of my '60 Chevy" (2 wds.) |
| 38% | TINATURNER | 10 | Singer played by Angela Bassett in the 1993 musical biopic "What's Love Got to Do with It" (2 wds.) |
| 38% | WHATSGOINGON | 12 | 1971 Top 10 song by 28-Across with the lyrics "We've got to find a way / To bring some understanding here today" (3 wds.) |
| 38% | FORTUNATESON | 12 | Creedence Clearwater Revival hit song with the lyrics "Some folks are born / Made to wave the flag" (2 wds.) |
| 38% | THATSAMORE | 10 | Dean Martin love song with the lyrics "Hearts will play tippy-tippy-tay, tippy-tippy-tay / Like a gay tarantella" (2 wds.) |
| 37% | THINKIMINLOVE | 13 | 1982 Top 20 hit by 43-Across with the lyrics "Oh, something's got a hold of me now / It's a feeling, burnin' up ... " (4 wds.) |
| 37% | ALLNIGHTLONG | 12 | 1983 No. 1 song by 44-Across with the lyrics "Well, my friends, the time has come / To raise the roof and have some fun" (3 wds.) |
| 37% | TELEPHONE | 9 | Hit song by 42-Across with the lyrics "Stop callin' / I don't wanna talk anymore" |
| 37% | ONEONONE | 8 | Hall & Oates hit with the lyric "I wanna play that game tonight" (3 wds.) |
| 37% | APPLAUSE | 8 | Hit song by 42-Across with the lyrics "Live for the way that you cheer and scream for me" |
| 37% | ALOT | 4 | "It's Beginning to Look ___ Like Christmas," a hit song by Perry Como and the Fontane Sisters: 2 wds. |
| 37% | NIGHTFEVER | 10 | 1978 #1 hit with the lyrics "Here I am, praying for this moment to last": 2 wds. |