| 100% | CLACKERS | 8 | Spheres attached by string that are hit together |
| 42% | PUPPET | 6 | Doll that is manipulated by strings |
| 41% | ATARI | 5 | Company that was hit hard by the video-game crash of 1983 |
| 37% | TRIPWIRE | 8 | Security element that may be detected by Silly String |
| 37% | ELIE | 4 | Manitoba, Canada town that was hit by the county's only F5 tornado on record, on June 22, 2007 |
| 37% | THEMALL | 7 | Destination that is "hit" by shoppers: 2 wds. |
| 35% | NEVER | 5 | "___ Be the Same," hit song by Camila Cabello that won an iHeartRadio award in 2019 |
| 34% | COTTONEYEDJOE | 13 | Traditional American folk song that was the inspiration for a 1994 hit by Swedish band Rednex: 2 wds., hyph. |
| 34% | ROADKILL | 8 | Wildlife that sadly has been hit by traffic |
| 34% | LOVEMEDO | 8 | Early hit song by the Beatles that promises, "I'll always be true" (3 wds.) |
| 32% | VOLLEYS | 7 | Tennis shots that are hit before the ball bounces |
| 32% | EVER | 4 | "We Are Never ___ Getting Back Together," breakup song by Taylor Swift that's an inspiration to move on |
| 32% | KEEP | 4 | "Love Will ___ Us Together," 1973 song by Neil Sedaka that topped the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 |
| 32% | KITES | 5 | Ones that are strung along? |
| 32% | OCEANEYES | 9 | Hit song by 30-Across that begins "I've been watching you / For some time / Can't stop staring" (2 wds.) |
| 32% | YARN | 4 | String that's batted around by a cat |
| 32% | OXEN | 4 | Animals that are often yoked together |
| 32% | GRASS | 5 | Blades that are cut by blades |
| 32% | ABS | 3 | Muscles that are worked by crunches |
| 32% | PETS | 4 | Animals that are fed by humans |
| 32% | MONOCLES | 8 | Pieces that are fixed by sockets? |
| 32% | PIPES | 5 | Tubes that are repaired by plumbers |
| 32% | LEGAL | 5 | Something that is bound by law |
| 32% | LIE | 3 | Talk that is marked by falsehood |
| 32% | FICTION | 7 | Stories that were created by imagination |
| 32% | VOLUNTARY | 9 | Something that is done by choice |
| 32% | MARBLE | 6 | Limestone that is crystallized by metamorphism |
| 31% | BARBARAANN | 10 | 1965 Beach Boys hit that was first recorded by the Regents: 2 wds. |
| 31% | KILLER | 6 | "___ Queen," hit song by Queen that was written by Freddie Mercury |
| 31% | BOHEMIAN | 8 | "___ Rhapsody," hit song by Queen that was written by Freddie Mercury |