| 100% | STAN | 4 | Overzealous admirer, possibly from a mash-up of the terms "stalker" and "fan" in an Eminem song |
| 36% | RAPGOD | 6 | Eminem song which holds the world record for most words in a hit single with an average of 4.28 words per second: 2 wds. |
| 35% | TANNOY | 6 | Colloquial term for a public address system taken from the name of a firm set up by Guy Fountain in 1926 |
| 34% | INACROWN | 8 | "You Should See Me ___," Billie Eilish song released in 2018 and the title of which was inspired by a scene from "Sherlock": 3 wds. |
| 34% | RAIN | 4 | "___ On Me," song by Ariana Grande and Lady Gaga ... or a shower from above that may fill up the water bodies mentioned in this puzzle |
| 34% | ATARI | 5 | Company whose name comes from a term in the game of Go |
| 32% | NEEDLEDROP | 10 | Turntable-inspired term for the use of a familiar song in a film |
| 32% | ROSIE | 5 | Female mascot of the Cincinnati Reds whose name is derived from a female fan and a fan group |
| 32% | PAPARAZZI | 9 | Term that comes from the name of a news photographer in Fellini’s “La Dolce Vita” |
| 32% | SOS | 3 | "Sending out an ___" (refrain from The Police's 1979 song "Message in a Bottle") |
| 32% | LARD | 4 | Fat from the abdomen of a pig rendered and clarified for use in cooking |
| 31% | YEA | 3 | "___! Heavy and a Bottle of Bread," Bob Dylan song from the album "The Basement Tapes" |
| 31% | COLD | 4 | ___ open, term and scene that is shown before the title song of a TV show |
| 31% | THISLOVE | 8 | "1989 (Taylor's Version)" song about the ups and downs of a relationship (2 wds.) |
| 31% | MEDI | 4 | Prefix for "care" in the name of a health plan for Americans 65 and up |
| 31% | NATO | 4 | An alliance between American and European forces, that played a big part in the occupation of Afghanistan: Abbr |
| 31% | ONOCENTAUR | 10 | Mythical beast with the upper body of a man and the lower body of an ass |
| 31% | SEED | 4 | "I begin with the ___ of an emotion, a place, and then move from there" (Joy Harjo) |
| 31% | MONTH | 5 | One of the twelve divisions in a year, and a word that has an obscure perfect rhyme with the word "oneth" |
| 31% | STANS | 5 | Obsessive fans, in slang drawn from an Eminem song |
| 31% | FLOW | 4 | "Let It ___," song by Toni Braxton with an ocean-related term describing the movement of a liquid |
| 31% | BOW | 3 | Archery equipment, and a verb that means "to bend the upper body in a sign of respect" |
| 31% | BELONG | 6 | "Up Where We ___," song from the movie "An Officer and a Gentleman" that won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1982 |
| 31% | EDELWEISS | 9 | Flower in a song from "The Sound of Music" |
| 31% | MONKSEAL | 8 | Sea creature whose name sounds like a mash-up of a jazz pianist and an R&B singer |
| 30% | YOUCANCALLMEAL | 14 | 1986 hit song for Paul Simon ... or an instruction from the starts of 20-, 34- and 41-Across? |
| 30% | KIND | 4 | "One Of A ___," song from the 2021 film "Vivo" performed by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Juan de Marcos Gonzalez |
| 30% | BLUE | 4 | "Tangled Up in ___," 1975 song by Bob Dylan which is a part of his album, "Blood on the Tracks" |
| 30% | RADIOEDIT | 9 | Shortened version of a pop song ... and a hint to what's hidden in the answers to starred clues |
| 30% | BARACK | 6 | "Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance" author who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009 |