| 100% | RADIOEDIT | 9 | Version of a song that's shorter or cleaner than the original |
| 50% | LITE | 4 | Version of a mobile app that's less challenging than it original |
| 44% | VERSE | 5 | Part of a song that's not the chorus |
| 41% | RADIOEDIT | 9 | Version of a song made for the airwaves |
| 39% | SOLO | 4 | Part of a song that features only the drummer, perhaps |
| 38% | SOLO | 4 | Part of a song that features one member of the band |
| 37% | BACKBEAT | 8 | Part of a song that is given a stronger accent in clubs or parties |
| 37% | VERSES | 6 | Parts of a song that come before or after choruses |
| 37% | RADIOEDIT | 9 | Shortened version of a pop song ... and a hint to what's hidden in the answers to starred clues |
| 37% | FOUNDER | 7 | The original creator of a company or institution |
| 36% | SAMPLE | 6 | Part of a song that's reused by another song |
| 36% | ALASKA | 6 | State that's the title of a Maggie Rogers song |
| 36% | TOGETHER | 8 | "We Belong ___," a song by Mariah Carey that was listed as Billboard's "Song of the Decade" |
| 36% | DONT | 4 | "___ Panic," Coldplay song that was initially a part of the band's second EP, "The Blue Room" |
| 36% | ELI | 3 | Name that's a shorter version of Felix (in a sense) |
| 36% | MORAL | 5 | Conclusion of a story, or the learning from that |
| 36% | EDIT | 4 | Radio ___ (clean version of a song) |
| 35% | TLDR | 4 | "here's a shorter version of that saga" |
| 35% | EAGLES | 6 | Band that released a cover version of the holiday song "Please Come Home for Christmas" |
| 35% | YEAR | 4 | Venusian ___ (unit of time that's surprisingly shorter than a Venusian day) |
| 35% | OHIO | 4 | State that's the title of a Neil Young song (where Cleveland is) |
| 35% | NAH | 3 | Informal refusal that's the title of a 2002 Shania Twain song |
| 35% | REMIX | 5 | D.J.'s version of a song |
| 35% | ARR | 3 | Version of a song: Abbr. |
| 35% | TIMELESS | 8 | Like a song or a style that never goes out of fashion |
| 35% | SOS | 3 | ABBA song that was the A-side of "Man in the Middle" |
| 34% | EAVE | 4 | Part of a roof that extends further than the rest |
| 34% | OLDIE | 5 | Song that's a blast from the past |
| 34% | MATTERS | 7 | "All That ___," Christina Perri's 2015 song which was a part of the Broadway musical "Finding Neverland" |
| 34% | EYES | 4 | "___ Without a Face," 1960 French horror film that inspired Billy Idol's song of the same name |