| 100% | GODIVA | 6 | Tennyson poem that begins, "I waited for the train at Coventry" |
| 41% | ELM | 3 | Sylvia Plath poem that begins "I know the bottom, she says. I know it with my great tap root" |
| 39% | STUPID | 6 | With 40-Across, Lady Gaga hit that begins, "You're the one that I've been waiting for / Gotta quit this crying" |
| 39% | ARCA | 4 | Medieval chest for valuables that is hidden at the beginning of "arcane" |
| 37% | COAL | 4 | 31-Across poem that begins, "I / Is the total black, being spoken / From the earth's inside" |
| 37% | EDDA | 4 | Epic poem that begins with the “Gylfaginning” |
| 36% | TREES | 5 | Classic poem that begins "I think that I shall never see" |
| 35% | ERIE | 4 | Canal that begins at the Hudson River |
| 35% | ILL | 3 | "___ be waiting for you at the park." |
| 35% | ILL | 3 | "___ be waiting for you at the park" |
| 34% | PUBSCRAWL | 9 | Poem that seemed awfully profound at the bar last night? |
| 34% | MISTY | 5 | Johnny Mathis classic that begins, "Look at me" |
| 34% | HELLAGOOD | 9 | Grammy-nominated No Doubt hit that begins "The waves keep on crashing on me for some reason" |
| 34% | ERIE | 4 | New York canal that begins at the Hudson River |
| 33% | 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 |
| 33% | LETEMIN | 7 | 1976 hit that begins "Someone's knockin' at the door" |
| 33% | LOC | 3 | Train that stops at every station, for short |
| 33% | LOVE | 4 | Nat King Cole classic that starts "L is for the way you look at me" |
| 33% | THEARCHER | 9 | Taylor Swift song that begins "Combat, I'm ready for combat" |
| 33% | USA | 3 | The land that was made for you and me |
| 32% | MADMEN | 6 | Emmy-winning TV show that begins at the Sterling Cooper ad agency |
| 32% | LAVENDERHAZE | 12 | Taylor Swift hit song that begins, "Meet me at midnight" (2 wds.) |
| 32% | MLB | 3 | Sports org. for the players that begin the answers to starred clues |
| 32% | GAS | 3 | Fuel that's paid for at the pump |
| 32% | ODES | 4 | Poems that may begin "For a ... " |
| 32% | IGOTORIO | 8 | Classic song that begins "When my baby / When my baby smiles at me" |
| 32% | LII | 3 | Shakespeare sonnet that begins "So am I as the rich, whose blessed key" |
| 32% | GYPSY | 5 | Fleetwood Mac hit that begins, “So I’m back to the velvet underground” |
| 32% | LOSER | 5 | Beck song that begins "In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey" |
| 32% | ENOSIS | 6 | Movement for the union of Cyprus with Greece that began in the 1930s |