| 100% | SOBER | 5 | Single by 53-Across on 45-Across with the lyric "In the morning, you'll be dancing with all the heartache" |
| 58% | HOMEMADE | 8 | With 27-Down, single by 53-Across on 45-Across with the lyric "Now you know it's really gonna blow" |
| 56% | LIABILITY | 9 | Single by 53-Across on 45-Across with the lyric "You're a little much for me" |
| 44% | LARGERTHANLIFE | 14 | "Millennium" Top 40 single by 47-Across with the lyrics "There are prices to fame alright / All of our time spent in flashes of light" (3 wds.) |
| 43% | SMOOTHCRIMINAL | 14 | 1988 hit song by 45-Across with the lyrics "Annie, are you okay? Annie, are you okay? Are you okay, Annie?" (2 wds.) |
| 43% | WITHOUTME | 9 | 2018 #1 single by Halsey with the lyric "I was afraid to leave you on your own" (2 wds.) |
| 42% | PRESSURE | 8 | 24-Down single with the lyrics "But here you are in the ninth / Two men out and three men on / Nowhere to look but inside" |
| 41% | LIKEIUSEDTO | 11 | 2018 single by 43-Across with the lyrics "Never be the same / Won't trust you ... " (4 wds.) |
| 40% | THELOVEILOST | 12 | 1973 hit single by 44-Across and 30-Across with the lyrics "Take a good look at me / I'm in misery, can't you see?" (4 wds.) |
| 40% | TEENAGEDREAM | 12 | Katy Perry hit single with the lyric "We can dance until we die / You and I, we'll be young forever" (2 wds.) |
| 40% | TEENAGEDREAM | 12 | Katy Perry hit single with the lyrics "We can dance until we die / You and I, we'll be young forever" (2 wds.) |
| 40% | PILLSNPOTIONS | 13 | Hit single on "The Pinkprint" with the lyrics "I get high off your memory / In due time we'll be fine" (3 wds.) |
| 39% | BEACH | 5 | With 32-Across, 2022 single by 49-Across with the lyrics "I've got a weekend in paradise / And I'm probably gonna never call you" |
| 38% | THATWASNTME | 11 | Song by 32-Across with the lyrics "I'm not asking you to move on or forget it / But these are better days" (3 wds.) |
| 38% | WORLDONFIRE | 11 | Song by 40-Across on 48-Across with the lyric "Whatcha gonna do when it all burns down?" (3 wds.) |
| 38% | CARDIGAN | 8 | Hit single from 15-Across with the lyrics "You put me on and said I was your favorite" |
| 37% | TEARINMYHEART | 13 | Twenty One Pilots single from "Blurryface" with the lyrics "The songs on the radio are okay / But my taste in music is your face" (4 wds.) |
| 37% | SPARKSFLY | 9 | Song on 15-Across with the lyrics "I'm captivated by you, baby / Like a fireworks show" (2 wds.) |
| 37% | ITSAHELLUVATOWN | 15 | Lyric in the song named by the starts and ends of 19-, 27-, 45- and 53-Across |
| 37% | RUNNINGONEMPTY | 14 | 1978 single by 42-Across with the lyric "In '69, I was 21 and I called the road my own" (3 wds.) |
| 36% | MATILDA | 7 | Single on 37-Across with the lyric "You don't have to go home" |
| 36% | MARJORIE | 8 | Hit single from 52-Across with the lyrics "I should've asked you how to be" |
| 36% | IKISSEDAGIRL | 12 | Katy Perry hit single with the lyric "Just wanna try you on" (4 wds.) |
| 35% | DONTSPEAK | 9 | Single on 34-Across with the lyrics "I know just what you're sayin' / So please stop explainin' / Don't tell me 'cause it hurts" (2 wds.) |
| 35% | DONTSTARTNOW | 12 | Dua Lipa single on "Future Nostalgia" with the lyrics "Walk away, you know how" (3 wds.) |
| 35% | SOMETHING | 9 | Beatles song by George Harrison on 48-Across with the lyrics "I don't want to leave her now / You know I believe and how" |
| 35% | COUNTONME | 9 | Hit single by 45-Across that begins, "If you ever find yourself stuck in the middle of the sea" (3 wds.) |
| 35% | STORYOFMYLIFE | 13 | 44-Across hit single with the lyrics "Written on these walls are / The colors that I can't change" (4 wds.) |
| 34% | CATCHAWAVE | 10 | 1963 single by 29-Across from 39-Across that has the lyrics "You paddle out turn around and raise / And baby that's all there is to the coastline craze" (3 wds.) |
| 34% | IWANTITTHATWAY | 14 | "Millennium" Top 40 single by 47-Across with the lyrics "Tell me why / Ain't nothin' but a heartache" (5 wds.) |