| 100% | ATLAST | 6 | Jazz classic with the line "My lonely days are over" |
| 74% | ATLAST | 6 | Etta James classic with the lines, "My love has come along / My lonely days are over" |
| 73% | ATLAST | 6 | Etta James classic with the lines, "My love has come along / My lonely days are over" (2 wds.) |
| 42% | MEMORY | 6 | Broadway classic with the lyrics "I can smile at the old days / I was beautiful then" |
| 42% | LITTLEJEANNIE | 13 | 1980 Elton John song with the line "I want you to be my acrobat": 2 wds. |
| 42% | CANIKICKIT | 10 | A Tribe Called Quest song with the line “Mr. Dinkins, would you please be my mayor?” |
| 42% | AMADEUS | 7 | Movie with the line "I'm a vulgar man. But I assure you, my music is not" |
| 41% | HUMANFAMILY | 11 | 43-Across poem with the lines "We are more alike, my friends, / Than we are unalike" (2 wds.) |
| 41% | CHARLOTTESWEB | 13 | Children's classic with the line "It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer" |
| 41% | EMMA | 4 | Classic novel with the line "You must be the best judge of your own happiness" |
| 40% | SIXTEENTONS | 11 | Classic folk song with the line “I owe my soul to the company store” |
| 40% | IMALOSER | 8 | Beatles song with the line "My tears are falling like rain from the sky" |
| 40% | IMALOSER | 8 | Beatles song with the line “My tears are falling like rain from the sky” |
| 40% | ATLAST | 6 | Classic song with the line "My love has come along" |
| 39% | DONTBETHATWAY | 13 | Benny Goodman jazz standard with the opening line "April skies are in your eyes" |
| 39% | MRSANDMAN | 9 | Classic song with the line "Give him a lonely heart like Pagliacci / And lots of wavy hair like Liberace" |
| 38% | WEAREFAMILY | 11 | Sister Sledge classic whose second line is "I got all my sisters with me," and a hint to the starts of 17-, 24-, 39-, and 49-Across |
| 38% | THEMUPPETMOVIE | 14 | '79 film with the line "Pardon my boa!" |
| 37% | NOEXIT | 6 | Play with the line "Hell is other people" |
| 37% | NOTCOOL | 7 | "That was over the line" |
| 37% | NOTCOOL | 7 | “That was over the line” |
| 37% | HEYNINETEEN | 11 | Steely Dan classic with the line "She don't remember the Queen of Soul" |
| 37% | ALPACINO | 8 | Actor with the line "Say hello to my little friend!" |
| 37% | HALO | 4 | Beyoncé hit with the line "I got my angel now" |
| 37% | HALO | 4 | Beyoncé song with the line "I got my angel now" |
| 37% | TOOSWEET | 8 | Hozier hit with the line "I take my whiskey neat" |
| 37% | MOUNTAINHIGHVALLEYLOW | 21 | Classic song with the repeated line "If you need me, I will be nearby" ... shown symbolically in this puzzle |
| 37% | CCRIDER | 7 | Classic blues song with the line "I'd rather be dead than to stay here and be your dog" |
| 37% | GLASSONION | 10 | Allusive Beatles song with the line “the Walrus was Paul” |
| 36% | ANGEL | 5 | Sarah McLachlan song with the line "Memories seep from my veins" |