| 100% | IGET | 4 | Start for "Around" and "Ideas" in song titles |
| 65% | ONLY | 4 | Start for the Top 40 song titles "Sixteen," "Time" and "You" |
| 55% | UNLOVABLE | 9 | Song title for Diamante and The Smiths |
| 54% | SARA | 4 | Song title for both Fleetwood Mac and Starship |
| 54% | ONE | 3 | Song title for U2, Metallica, and Ed Sheeran |
| 54% | FAME | 4 | Song title for Irene Cara and David Bowie |
| 52% | AGIRL | 5 | End of song titles starting "About" and "I Kissed" |
| 52% | ISTHISLOVE | 10 | Hit song title for Bob Marley, Whitesnake and Survivor |
| 51% | ICRY | 4 | Song title shared by hit singles for Ja Rule and Flo Rida |
| 51% | MARIA | 5 | Song title in both "The Sound of Music" and "West Side Story" |
| 51% | HELLO | 5 | No.1 hit song title for Lionel Richie and Adele |
| 51% | LOOMPA | 6 | Start for a "land" in "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" |
| 50% | FITZGERALD | 10 | Vocalist known for the 1944 song whose title (and first line) appears in the circled squares |
| 49% | AUNT | 4 | Title for Lydia and Elizabeth in "The Handmaid's Tale" |
| 49% | ALICE | 5 | Title film role for Mia Wasikowska in 2010 and 2016 |
| 49% | LONG | 4 | Lengthy, just like the song titles in 21a, 28a, 52a, 7d, and 43d |
| 49% | MANEATER | 8 | Title of hit songs for both Hall & Oates and Nelly Furtado |
| 49% | TRYTO | 5 | It precedes "Remember" and "Forget" in song titles |
| 49% | TRYTO | 5 | Words before "Remember" and "Forget" in song titles |
| 48% | JOANNE | 6 | Woman in a Lady Gaga song and album title (2016) |
| 48% | SADIE | 5 | Title woman in songs by the Beatles and the Spinners |
| 48% | TRYTO | 5 | Words before "Remember" and "Forget," in song titles |
| 48% | HAZE | 4 | Word after "Lavender" and "Purple," in song titles |
| 47% | ALOUETTE | 8 | Song whose title is repeated before and after "gentille" in its first line |
| 47% | HANGTEN | 7 | Surf, in a way, and an appropriate title for this puzzle |
| 46% | BABY | 4 | Word before "Boy," "Love" and "Come Back" in titles to #1 songs |
| 46% | REO | 3 | Car company started in 1905 and named for its founder's initials |
| 46% | HES | 3 | Song title lead-in to "So Fine" and "So Shy" |
| 46% | EXPLODE | 7 | Appropriate playlist title for the three songs at 15-, 28-, and 33-Across |
| 45% | GIRLSWANTGIRLS | 14 | 2021 Drake song whose title starts and ends with the same word: 3 wds. |