| 100% | ALOU | 4 | Name of a family with a combined 7,228 hits |
| 81% | ALOU | 4 | Name of the baseball family with a combined 7,228 hits |
| 54% | RAE | 3 | Middle name of a Canadian with a big 2011 hit |
| 48% | NEE | 3 | Used with the name of a married woman to identify former family |
| 47% | ROCK | 4 | With 7-Across, the name of one of Led Zeppelin's greatest hits, "___ & ___" |
| 44% | KENT | 4 | Name of a family that took in an extraterrestrial |
| 44% | DELANO | 6 | Name of a family from which Franklin Roosevelt was descended |
| 43% | ELLA | 4 | First name of a singer with 13 Grammys |
| 43% | MEDICI | 6 | Name of a famed Florentine family |
| 43% | ALOU | 4 | Baseball family with a combined 11 All-Star nods |
| 43% | BACK | 4 | Part of a jersey with a player's name |
| 42% | JUDD | 4 | Either half of a duo with 14 #1 country hits |
| 42% | WEDNESDAY | 9 | Name of a character from the Addams Family |
| 42% | BERENSTAINBEARS | 15 | Literary family with a widely misremembered name |
| 42% | JETSON | 6 | Last name of a futuristic cartoon family |
| 41% | ROLLINGTHUNDER | 14 | Name of a celebrated 1970s concert tour with Bob Dylan |
| 41% | CATSEYE | 7 | Type of colorful marble with a feline name |
| 41% | VONTRAPP | 8 | Family name in a hit musical |
| 41% | UNSER | 5 | Family name with a checkered past? |
| 41% | LASERED | 7 | Hit with a beam of light |
| 41% | DORIS | 5 | Name of a weather bomb that hit the UK in 2017 |
| 41% | PIUSI | 5 | First of 12 popes with a religious-sounding name |
| 41% | POPOV | 5 | Brand of cheap vodka with a Russian-sounding name |
| 41% | PIUS | 4 | Any of 12 popes with a devout-sounding name |
| 41% | ELON | 4 | First name of a man associated with Tesla, SpaceX |
| 41% | DAMSELFLY | 9 | Insect with the name of a young, unmarried woman |
| 41% | IRON | 4 | ___ Maiden, a hugely popular metal band with hits like "Fear of the Dark" and "Hallowed Be Thy Name" |
| 41% | STALLION | 8 | Type of horse associated with a rapper named Megan |
| 40% | FEELINGS | 8 | Hit song of the 1970s with a repetitive "whoa whoa whoa" chorus |
| 40% | WINNIPEG | 8 | Provincial capital south of a lake with the same name |