| 100% | OIL | 3 | It's referred to as "black gold" and "Texas tea" in "The Beverly Hillbillies" theme song |
| 87% | OIL | 3 | Substance referred to as "black gold" and "Texas tea" in "The Beverly Hillbillies" theme song |
| 37% | STARS | 5 | Kendrick Lamar and SZA's superhit song "All the ___" which was released in 2018 as the lead single to the soundtrack album for "Black Panther" |
| 35% | NESTOR | 6 | King of Pylos referred to as the Gerenian horseman in Homer's The Iliad |
| 33% | DISC | 4 | It's black on one side and white on the other, in Othello |
| 33% | FREESPEECH | 10 | It's protected in the same amendment as the right to assemble |
| 33% | BABOON | 6 | Rafiki is referred to as one in The Lion King |
| 32% | ELLA | 4 | Jazz legend Fitzgerald referred to as the "First Lady of Song" |
| 32% | TOTO | 4 | Canine that Glinda refers to as Dodo in the musical “Wicked” |
| 32% | LASORDA | 7 | He managed the U.S. to its first Olympic gold in baseball |
| 32% | RLSTINE | 7 | Author referred to as "Stephen King of children's literature" who wrote the first book of the Goosebumps series in 1992 |
| 32% | HIPBONE | 7 | The thigh bone's connected to it, as per the song |
| 32% | QUINOA | 6 | Food staple referred to as "the gold of the Incas" |
| 32% | THELAW | 6 | In the song, Bobby Fuller fought it, and it won |
| 32% | MADONNA | 7 | American singer and actress referred to as the "Queen of Pop" whose debut self-titled album came out in 1983 |
| 32% | SYNDROME | 8 | It's the S in AIDS, IBS and PMS |
| 32% | LETTER | 6 | Unit in the alphabet ... and with 47a, term referring to the "k" in "knife" or "s" in "aisle" |
| 31% | ELLA | 4 | I am referred to as the "Queen of Jazz" and I won fourteen Grammys |
| 31% | GLENNMILLER | 11 | Musician mentioned in the theme song to "All in the Family" |
| 31% | IVES | 4 | Currier & ___ (company referred to in the Christmas song "Sleigh Ride") |
| 31% | ARIEL | 5 | Girl Sebastian is referring to in the song "Kiss the Girl" |
| 31% | SPIDERPLANT | 11 | Next, she ___ in the car and wanted to get it home |
| 31% | SCREEN | 6 | It's the S in cinema and television's SAG Awards |
| 31% | STONEAGE | 8 | Historic period mentioned in the theme song to "The Flintstones": 2 wds. |
| 30% | CLARENCE | 8 | Darrow referred to as the "Attorney for the Damned" in a 2011 book by John A. Farrell |
| 30% | MOON | 4 | "Fly Me to the ___," 1964 song by Frank Sinatra with the Earth's natural satellite in its title |
| 30% | AIR | 3 | Song that becomes the musical it's in if you add an "H" to the front |
| 30% | RUN | 3 | ___-DMC, "It's Tricky" hip hop group and first of its kind to receive the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2016 |
| 30% | BEDHEAD | 7 | Messy hair in the morning, and a hint to the tops of the theme answers |
| 29% | ANA | 3 | ___ Matronic, vocalist for "Scissor Sisters", whose fans in the "Scissorhood" refer to themselves as "nuns" |