| 100% | SEEGER | 6 | Honoree of Springsteen's 2006 "We Shall Overcome" album |
| 40% | JOANBAEZ | 8 | Folk singer of Forever Young and We Shall Overcome |
| 38% | THERIVER | 8 | Springsteen's album, of 1980, with Hungry Heart |
| 37% | TUNNEL | 6 | __ of Love, Bruce Springsteen's album |
| 32% | OVERCOME | 8 | "We Shall ___," song adaptation by Bruce Springsteen honoring Martin Luther King Jr. which released in 2006 |
| 31% | BAEZ | 4 | "We Shall Overcome" singer |
| 31% | IDOBELIEVE | 10 | ''We Shall Overcome'' phrase |
| 31% | IDOBELIEVE | 10 | "We Shall Overcome" phrase |
| 31% | BAEZ | 4 | "We Shall Overcome" folksinger Joan |
| 30% | CARDIB | 6 | US rapper who made hit album Invasion of Privacy |
| 30% | JOAD | 4 | Bruce Springsteen album "The Ghost of Tom ___" |
| 30% | BORN | 4 | First word of two Springsteen album titles |
| 30% | JOAD | 4 | "The Ghost of Tom ___" (1995 Bruce Springsteen album) |
| 30% | WRECKINGBALL | 12 | 2012 Bruce Springsteen album featuring the Grammy-nominated single "We Take Care of Our Own" (2 wds.) |
| 30% | KING | 4 | Honoree of today's federal holiday |
| 29% | MEXICO | 6 | Country just south of the US ... or the title of a song on Carrie Underwood's latest album |
| 29% | TRUMAN | 6 | Harry S —, president of the US from 1945-53 |
| 29% | GRANT | 5 | Ulysses S —, president of the US from 1869-77 |
| 29% | USA | 3 | Springsteen's birthplace of song |
| 29% | ONE | 3 | "___ of Us," song by ABBA from their 1981 album "The Visitors" |
| 29% | ENYA | 4 | Irish singer with a 2006 "Sounds of the Season" album |
| 28% | ESTREET | 7 | Thoroughfare in the name of Springsteen's band |
| 28% | LES | 3 | Guitarist Paul, the honoree of Jeff Beck’s live album “Rock ’n’ Roll Party” |
| 28% | SIN | 3 | "To ___ by silence, when we should protest, makes cowards out of men": Ella Wheeler Wilcox |
| 28% | AMORE | 5 | Andrea Bocelli's 2006 platinum-selling album |
| 28% | IVEGOTAPLAN | 11 | "Here's what we should do" |
| 27% | BORNTORUN | 9 | Bruce Springsteen's autobiography that was named after an iconic album and song of his, and was released in September 2016: 3 wds. |
| 27% | LEAR | 4 | He asks "Which of you shall we say doth love us most?" |
| 27% | BORNTORUN | 9 | Bruce Springsteen's third studio album |
| 27% | BORNTORUN | 9 | Bruce Springsteen's 1975 landmark album |