| 100% | TAVERN | 6 | Inn, according to song there is one "in the town" |
| 56% | LUCY | 4 | One in the sky with diamonds, according to a Beatles song |
| 49% | POUT | 4 | Ignore one of the warnings in “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town” |
| 48% | ACT | 3 | There is one in "The Thanksgiving Play" |
| 48% | LYRIC | 5 | "In the town where I was born / Lived a man who sailed to sea" is the first one in "Yellow Submarine," by the Beatles |
| 46% | LOUISIANA | 9 | According to the song, Johnny B. Goode is from __ |
| 45% | RODEO | 5 | There are a lot of bucks to be had in one |
| 44% | SEA | 3 | In the world, there is a Red one and a Dead one |
| 44% | TWOCENTS | 8 | In the US, what one's opinion is said to be worth |
| 43% | UPTOWN | 6 | The wealthy girl in Billy Joel song is from there |
| 43% | NOOL | 4 | According to the Sour Kangaroo, Horton was "the biggest blame fool in the jungle of ___" |
| 43% | SLEEP | 5 | According to Nas in "N.Y. State of Mind" this is the cousin of death |
| 42% | GEM | 3 | There's one hidden in the answer to each starred clue |
| 42% | ASS | 3 | The law is one, according to a Dickens line |
| 42% | PLYMOUTH | 8 | Town in Massachusetts that is known to have celebrated the "First Thanksgiving" |
| 41% | JET | 3 | The Lippisch Ente was the first one of these to fly, in 1928 |
| 41% | SEDATED | 7 | What the Ramones wanted to be in a 1978 hit song |
| 41% | GILLIGANSISLE | 13 | According to the 1960s sitcom's theme song, "It's primitive as can be ... here on ___": 2 wds. |
| 41% | ISLE | 4 | Man is one in the Irish Sea |
| 41% | HEIR | 4 | One in the will, apparently |
| 41% | THEBOSS | 7 | What James Brown “paid the cost to be,” in a 1973 song |
| 41% | STAR | 4 | Betelgeuse is one in the news, right now |
| 40% | SLAVE | 5 | 27-Across was the last US president to own one while in Office |
| 40% | VERBOSE | 7 | Denoting the style in which one might consider this clue to be written |
| 40% | ORR | 3 | He was the first hockey player to have 100 assists in one season |
| 40% | SPA | 3 | According to Christie, Hercule Poirot lived as a child in a quiet retreat in the Ardennes near this Belgian town |
| 40% | COW | 3 | Beast that according to the Mahabharata is to be treated with the same respect "as one's mother" |
| 40% | CANYONS | 7 | Bryce, Grand, and Antelope are ones in the US |
| 40% | ANIMALS | 7 | There are 12 in the Chinese zodiac |
| 40% | COS | 3 | There are 30 in the Dow: Abbr. |