| 100% | BEINGALIVE | 10 | Song from "Company" that marks the show's climax |
| 52% | YOUWILLBEFOUND | 14 | Song from 16-Across that also serves as a Twitter hashtag within the show: 4 wds. |
| 48% | TROUPE | 6 | Company that takes the show on the road |
| 48% | OLDIE | 5 | Song that's a blast from the past |
| 46% | UNFORGETTABLE | 13 | Song from Thomas Rhett's "Life Changes" album that topped the Country Airplay charts in 2017 |
| 46% | SIXTEEN | 7 | Song from Thomas Rhett's "Life Changes" album that topped the Country Airplay charts in 2019 |
| 45% | UNDERTHESEA | 11 | Song from "The Little Mermaid" that's a phonetic hint to interpreting the answers to the starred clues |
| 45% | MARRYME | 7 | Song from Thomas Rhett's "Life Changes" album that topped the Country Airplay charts in 2018: 2 wds. |
| 44% | EVERLAST | 8 | Company that provided equipment for the reality show "The Contender" |
| 44% | ANCIENTALIENS | 13 | Show on the History channel that's about extraterrestrial beings from long ago: 2 wds. |
| 44% | KIA | 3 | Company from Seoul that makes the Soul |
| 43% | HEREANDNOW | 10 | Title song from 30-Across's 2020 album that was also the name of his 2022 tour (3 wds.) |
| 43% | OLDIE | 5 | Song that is a blast from the past |
| 43% | TESLA | 5 | Electric car company that produces the Model S |
| 43% | TESLA | 5 | Electric car company that makes the Model S |
| 43% | WATERLINE | 9 | Mark that shows the level of a river |
| 42% | SUZUKI | 6 | Japanese car company that makes the SX4 S-Cross |
| 42% | JUICE | 5 | Song from 46-Across's album "Cuz I Love You" that won the 2019 Soul Train Music Award for Video of the Year |
| 42% | TESLA | 5 | Car company that makes the Model S, Model X, and Model 3 |
| 42% | ODD | 3 | "But behind that fair facade, I'm afraid she's rather ___" (lyric from the Disney song "Belle") |
| 41% | ENDO | 4 | Company that the FDA requested withdraw its opioid drug, oxymorphone hydrochloride, from market in 2017 |
| 41% | NYC | 3 | Song from the musical "Annie" that Daddy Warbucks starts singing along with Grace and Annie |
| 41% | LETTERTOME | 10 | Song from the album "5th Gear" that was Brad Paisley's sixth consecutive #1 hit on the "Billboard" Hot Country Songs chart (3 wds.) |
| 41% | DUELINGBANJOS | 13 | Instrumental song from the movie "Deliverance" that hit #2 in 1973: 2 wds. |
| 41% | SNL | 3 | Show that starts with a cold open sketch that ends with the phrase that includes "... from New York, it's ..." |
| 41% | THAT | 4 | "___ 70's Show," a popular TV series that centers around the lives of six teenagers from the 70s |
| 41% | WHENDOVESCRY | 12 | Song from the album 28-Across that was the top-selling single of 1984 (3 wds.) |
| 41% | BEOUR | 5 | With 35-Across, Oscar-nominated song from Disney's "Beauty and the Beast" that lost to that movie's title song: 2 wds. |
| 41% | UNDERPRESSURE | 13 | Hit song from the British rock band "Queen" that featured David Bowie: 2 wds. |
| 41% | TESLA | 5 | Car company that makes the Model S, Model X, Model Y, and Model 3 |