| 100% | FREEFALLIN | 10 | Tom Petty hit with the opening line "She's a good girl, loves her mama" |
| 41% | SHESALADY | 9 | Tom Jones hit with the line "Always treat her with respect" |
| 40% | OFEVERYTHING | 12 | "The Best ___," 2019 album with the greatest hits by Tom Petty both as a solo artist and a band member: 2 wds. |
| 39% | IWONTBACKDOWN | 13 | Tom Petty song with the line "In a world that keeps on pushin' me around" (4 wds.) |
| 38% | ARGO | 4 | Best Picture winner with the line "If I'm doing a fake movie, it's gonna be a fake hit" |
| 36% | BELOVED | 7 | 1987 novel with the opening lines “124 was spiteful. Full of a baby’s venom” |
| 34% | UPTOWNGIRL | 10 | 1983 hit with the line "She's been living in her white bread world" |
| 34% | ITSRAINING | 10 | With 63-Across, the opening lines to a nursery rhyme suggested by this puzzle's circled letters |
| 34% | MEMORYLANE | 10 | 2023 Old Dominion hit about remembering the good times with a past love: 2 wds. |
| 34% | LEARNINGTOFLY | 13 | Tom Petty song with the line "But I ain't got wings" (3 wds.) |
| 33% | EATIT | 5 | "Weird Al" Yankovic hit with the line, "You better chow down or it's gonna get cold" |
| 33% | WAS | 3 | “It ___ a Good Day” (1993 hit with the lyrics “I had the brew, she had the chronic / The Lakers beat the SuperSonics”) |
| 32% | FLORIDA | 7 | ___ Georgia Line, country music duo with the hit "Cruise" who share a name with Miami's state |
| 32% | WAR | 3 | 1970 #1 hit with the line "What is it good for?" |
| 32% | AIDA | 4 | Musical with the opening number "Every Story Is a Love Story" |
| 32% | POWEROFTWO | 10 | Indigo Girls song with the chorus "Adding up the total of a love that's true / Multiply life by the ..." |
| 32% | SADE | 4 | She had a 1993 hit with "No Ordinary Love" |
| 32% | ALWAYSBEMYBABY | 14 | Mariah Carey hit with the line "Our love will never end, no" |
| 32% | SIMONE | 6 | She had a 1959 hit with "I Loves You, Porgy" |
| 32% | LOLA | 4 | Hit song with the line "When she squeezed me tight she nearly broke my spine" |
| 32% | MANEATER | 8 | 1982 No. 1 hit with the line “Watch out, boy, she’ll chew you up” |
| 32% | JUMPINJACKFLASH | 15 | 1968 hit with the line "I was raised by a toothless, bearded hag" |
| 31% | WIDE | 4 | Tom Petty's "Into the Great ___ Open" |
| 31% | MANEATER | 8 | 1982 #1 hit with the line "Watch out boy she'll chew you up" |
| 31% | SAHM | 4 | Doug of the Sir Douglas Quintet with the hit "She's About a Mover" |
| 31% | CHER | 4 | She had a #1 hit at the age of 52 with "Believe" |
| 31% | LETSDANCE | 9 | 1983 album with the hits "China Girl" and "Modern Love" |
| 31% | SAMANTHA | 8 | Fox with the 1988 hit "Naughty Girls (Need Love Too)" |
| 31% | AGUILERA | 8 | Christina with the hits "What a Girl Wants" and "Beautiful" |
| 31% | ARGO | 4 | 2012 movie with the line "If I'm doing a fake movie, it's gonna be a fake hit" |