| 100% | HEYNINETEEN | 11 | Steely Dan classic with the line "She don't remember the Queen of Soul" |
| 36% | EMMA | 4 | Classic novel with the line "You must be the best judge of your own happiness" |
| 35% | SIXTEENTONS | 11 | Classic folk song with the line “I owe my soul to the company store” |
| 35% | CITIZENKANE | 11 | Movie with the line "Old age. It's the only disease, Mr. Thompson, that you don't look forward to being cured of" |
| 34% | ARETHA | 6 | The Queen of Soul |
| 33% | JIB | 3 | "I don't like the cut of her ___" (behavior) |
| 33% | ARETHA | 6 | The Queen of Soul, familiarly |
| 33% | RADIOGAGA | 9 | Queen hit with the lyric "So don't become some background noise" |
| 33% | MRSANDMAN | 9 | Classic song with the line "Give him a lonely heart like Pagliacci / And lots of wavy hair like Liberace" |
| 33% | STILLIRISE | 10 | Classic poem with the lines "Leaving behind nights of terror and fear ... Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear" |
| 33% | JIB | 3 | “I don’t like the cut of her ___” |
| 33% | ARETHAFRANKLIN | 14 | The Queen of Soul: 2 wds. |
| 32% | IMISSYOU | 8 | Song from "25" with the line "Baby, don't let the lights go down" (3 wds.) |
| 32% | ROXANNE | 7 | 39-Across song with the line "You don't have to put on the red light" |
| 32% | MADONNA | 7 | The queen of pop who sang hits like "Papa Don't Preach" |
| 32% | AJA | 3 | Steely Dan album with the 1978 hit "Deacon Blues" |
| 32% | AJA | 3 | Steely Dan album with the hit single "Deacon Blues" |
| 32% | AJA | 3 | Steely Dan album with the hit song "Deacon Blues" |
| 32% | ARETHA | 6 | Franklin known as the Queen of Soul |
| 32% | PIANO | 5 | Instrument played by the Queen of Soul |
| 32% | RESPECT | 7 | 1967 hit for the Queen of Soul |
| 31% | MTA | 3 | 1959 folk hit with the line "Charlie couldn't get off of that train" |
| 31% | IROBOT | 6 | Classic 1950 book with the line "It's your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion" |
| 31% | PEG | 3 | Steely Dan hit with the lyrics “So won’t you smile for the camera? / I know I’ll love you better” |
| 31% | ARETHA | 6 | Franklin, singer known as the Queen of Soul |
| 31% | NOCUTS | 6 | "Hey, don't jump in front of me in the line!" |
| 31% | IMISSYOU | 8 | Song on the 50-Across album "25" with the line "Baby, don't let the lights go down" (3 wds.) |
| 31% | MYLIFE | 6 | Billy Joel hit with the line "I don't want you to tell me it's time to come home" |
| 31% | ARETHA | 6 | Title of three albums by the Queen of Soul |
| 30% | ATLAST | 6 | Jazz classic with the line "My lonely days are over" |