| 100% | OSOLEMIO | 8 | Neapolitan song whose first line translates to "What a beautiful thing is a sunny day!" |
| 77% | OSOLEMIO | 8 | Song whose opening lyric translates to "What a beautiful thing is a sunny day" |
| 33% | RAYS | 4 | Things to catch on a sunny day |
| 32% | SHADE | 5 | Cool place to be on a sunny day |
| 31% | TET | 3 | Vietnamese holiday whose full name translates to "festival of the first day" |
| 30% | SHIP | 4 | What a fool might be using to cross the sea, according to a Grateful Dead song? |
| 30% | SALESMAN | 8 | A male whose job is to sell things |
| 30% | ALOUETTE | 8 | Song whose title is repeated before and after "gentille" in its first line |
| 30% | LAA | 3 | A.L. West team whose name is redundant when translated to Spanish: Abbr. |
| 30% | OUT | 3 | What you are after lining a shot to shortstop |
| 29% | CHAIN | 5 | What a "series" of fools may be called, according to an Aretha Franklin song? |
| 29% | GENIE | 5 | "Aladdin" character whose first line is "Oy! 10,000 years will give you such a crick in the neck!" |
| 29% | YEARS | 5 | What is a great thing about Leap Day jokes? "You only hear them every 4 ___" |
| 29% | SEDATED | 7 | What the Ramones wanted to be in a 1978 hit song |
| 29% | GRACEPARK | 9 | "A Million Little Things" actress whose first name is a positive virtue (elegance): 2 wds. |
| 29% | THEBOSS | 7 | What James Brown “paid the cost to be,” in a 1973 song |
| 28% | ISIS | 4 | Dylan song with the line "What drives me to you is what drives me insane" |
| 28% | FAITHHILL | 9 | "Speak to a Girl" singer whose first name is a positive virtue (belief): 2 wds. |
| 28% | DONE | 4 | "Look What You've ___," 2011 song by Drake that is a tribute to his mother |
| 28% | PURLOINEDLETTER | 15 | Titular item in a Poe story whose Latin epigraph translates to “Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than excessive cunning” |
| 28% | ESUNSECRETO | 11 | *Plan B song whose title translates to a phrase meaning "Don't tell anybody about this" |
| 28% | MASSACHUSETTS | 13 | State whose General Court was the first to recognize Fourth of July as a state celebration |
| 28% | ENRICO | 6 | Opera singer Caruso whose “Vesti la giubba” was the first record to sell a million copies |
| 28% | NOELNEILL | 9 | Lois Lane player of early TV, whose first name is a hint to this puzzle's theme |
| 28% | LAYDOWNSALLY | 12 | 1977 Eric Clapton song whose title might be telling actress Field to take a nap: 3 wds. |
| 28% | OWLS | 4 | Birds that are "not what they seem," according to a "Twin Peaks" line |
| 27% | CALYPSO | 7 | Harry Belafonte album whose first song is "Day-O" |
| 27% | ISAWTHREESHIPS | 14 | Holiday song whose first line ends, "come sailing in" |
| 27% | FIGHTCLUB | 9 | Group in a 1999 movie whose first rule of membership is not to talk about it: 2 wds. |
| 27% | LASTPENNY | 9 | What a broke person is down to |