| 100% | ALIBIED | 7 | Said, "She was with me all day," say |
| 52% | TICKETTORIDE | 12 | The Beatles #1 song with the lyric "She said that living with me / Is bringing her down" (3 wds.) |
| 52% | TICKETTORIDE | 12 | No. 1 Beatles song with the lyric "She said that living with me / Is bringing her down" (3 wds.) |
| 51% | IFEELFINE | 9 | Beatles song with the lyrics “Baby says she’s mine, you know / She tells me all the time” |
| 50% | ACHES | 5 | Is sore the next day, say |
| 50% | NAG | 3 | Pester all day, say |
| 49% | LAMENT | 6 | Say "woe is me," say |
| 49% | MAGGIENELSON | 12 | Her 2009 book opens, “Suppose I were to begin by saying I had fallen in love with a color” |
| 49% | ANGEL | 5 | Heavenly being with a halo, say |
| 48% | LITUP | 5 | Was all smiles, say |
| 47% | RAVE | 4 | All-night dance party with electronic music, say |
| 47% | ILLNESS | 7 | I will get head cold, say |
| 47% | AIL | 3 | Be down with the flu, say |
| 47% | RUE | 3 | Be unsatisfied with, say |
| 47% | ADORE | 5 | Be smitten with, say |
| 46% | FROZE | 5 | Was paralyzed with fear, say |
| 46% | WEEPS | 5 | Is overcome with joy, say |
| 46% | AIL | 3 | Be down with fever, say |
| 46% | NOLUCK | 6 | "I've had ___ at all" ("Fortune has not been with me"): 2 wds. |
| 45% | POLITELY | 8 | With "please" or "if I may," say |
| 45% | FOLLOW | 6 | With 41 Across, be a snowbird, say |
| 45% | WCFIELDS | 8 | He said "I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally" |
| 45% | IWONT | 5 | "___ say a word." ("Your secret is safe with me."): 2 wds. |
| 45% | IWONT | 5 | "___ say a word" ("Your secret is safe with me"): 2 wds. |
| 44% | NAMEDROP | 8 | Say "When I was with my good friend Barack last week ...," e.g. |
| 44% | RAPT | 4 | "He paid ___ attention to what she was saying" (Rhymes with "trapped") |
| 43% | RAILROAD | 8 | I've been working on the __, all the livelong day |
| 43% | EGO | 3 | One's head can be swollen with it, so to say |
| 42% | MAEWEST | 7 | She famously said "I'm single because I was born that way" |
| 42% | EER | 3 | "If __ I loved her, all that love is gone": Shakespeare |