| 100% | MAMASAEGO/ID | 12 | Title lyric that precedes "There'll be days like this" in a Shirelles classic |
| 54% | MAMA | 4 | Who "said there'll be days like this," in a 1961 hit |
| 41% | HOURS | 5 | There are 24 of these in a day |
| 40% | HRS | 3 | There are 24 of these in a day, for short |
| 36% | BUTCHCASSIDY | 12 | Title character in a classic western film who asks, "Who are those guys?" (2 wds.) |
| 35% | RUTH | 4 | Book that begins "In the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land" |
| 34% | HERO | 4 | *Person who saves the day... and a word you may use to describe those being celebrated in this puzzle |
| 34% | YEARS | 5 | There are 100 of these in a century |
| 34% | SECONDS | 7 | There are 60 of these in a minute |
| 34% | CENTAVOS | 8 | There are 100 of these in a boliviano |
| 34% | DATES | 5 | There are lots of these in a calendar |
| 34% | TEASPOONS | 9 | There are 768 of these in a gallon |
| 34% | KEEPITPG | 8 | "Tone down that PDA, there are kids around," and a hint to five answers in this puzzle |
| 34% | PARIS | 5 | City that "is burning," in the title of a classic documentary |
| 34% | OUTS | 4 | There are six of these in a full inning |
| 34% | PREFAB | 6 | Like a house that might be built in a day |
| 33% | YAKETYYAK | 9 | Lyric that precedes “don’t talk back” in a 1958 hit song by the Coasters |
| 33% | SORARE | 6 | Title lyric after "Ours is a love …" in a 1950s hit |
| 33% | EAR | 3 | There is a drum in this organ |
| 33% | SORARE | 6 | Title lyric after "Ours is a love …" in a Jimmy Dorsey hit |
| 33% | SHE | 3 | Pronoun that precedes "sells seashells" in a classic tongue twister |
| 33% | COLD | 4 | "That'll be a ___ day in hell!" |
| 32% | MAILTRUCKS | 10 | There are a lot of letters in this answer |
| 32% | TASTESGREAT | 11 | Exclamation that precedes “Less Filling!” in a classic Miller Lite ad slogan |
| 32% | SOGGY | 5 | Like cereal that's been in milk for a while |
| 32% | BUDDY | 5 | That'll Be the Day singer Holly, died in a plane |
| 32% | THEMATRIX | 9 | There is no spoon says a bald boy in this movie |
| 32% | ULYSSES | 7 | Classic novel that takes place on a single day in Dublin |
| 32% | CAPSIZED | 8 | Like a boat that's been turned over in the water |
| 32% | ORLEANS | 7 | The Animals lyric: There is a house in New __ |