| 100% | FANMAIL | 7 | What a pop star gets in his post box: 2 wds |
| 42% | ELTONJOHN | 9 | Pop star who sang a duet with Lady Gaga on his hit "Your Song" at the 2010 Grammys: 2 wds. |
| 40% | LINESUP | 7 | Gets in a queue: 2 wds. |
| 39% | FANBASE | 7 | Group of followers of a pop star, say: 2 wds. |
| 39% | LIESDOWN | 8 | Gets in position for a nap: 2 wds. |
| 37% | JUSTINBIEBER | 12 | Pop star featured on a "Despacito" remix, propelling it to #1: 2 wds. |
| 37% | TVSET | 5 | What a couch potato sits in front of: 2 wds. |
| 37% | JUSTINBIEBER | 12 | Pop star whose tattoos include a treble clef, Jesus, and Selena Gomez: 2 wds. |
| 36% | LARRYDAVID | 10 | "Curb Your Enthusiasm" star who gave his Prius to a medical student in 2006: 2 wds. |
| 36% | LATTEART | 8 | What a barista designs in milk foam: 2 wds. |
| 36% | OSCARDELAHOYA | 13 | Boxing star who released a Grammy-nominated Latin pop album: 4 wds. |
| 35% | ROCKYMARCIANO | 13 | Boxing legend who went undefeated in his career, and serves as a possible inspiration for a popular Hollywood film series: 2 wds. |
| 34% | NIALLHORAN | 10 | One Direction singer who's in his second season as a coach on "The Voice": 2 wds. |
| 34% | NEWNORMAL | 9 | What we have to get used to after a crisis: 2 wds. |
| 34% | GUYFIERI | 8 | Food Network star who helped feed people in his hometown of Santa Rosa following a devastating wildfire: 2 wds. |
| 34% | RADIOEDIT | 9 | Shortened version of a pop song ... and a hint to what's hidden in the answers to starred clues |
| 34% | REALTIME | 8 | What a live broadcast is in (2 wds.) |
| 33% | TARAJIPHENSON | 13 | "Empire" actress who's getting a Hollywood Walk of Fame star in 2018: 3 wds. |
| 33% | LIFT | 4 | "What do you call a pop star in an elevator? Taylor ___!" |
| 33% | ROUGHNIGHT | 10 | Scarlett Johansson (birthday today) film about four friends who get in trouble when a bachelorette party goes wrong: 2 wds. |
| 33% | TROPICTHUNDER | 13 | A comedy starring Ben Stiller and Robert Downey Jr., in which Tom Cruise made a cameo: 2 wds. |
| 33% | SANDCASTLE | 10 | A 2017 war drama in which Nicholas Hoult stars alongside Henry Cavill: 2 wds. |
| 33% | DEADEND | 7 | What a red-herring path in a maze leads to (2 wds.) |
| 32% | CURLYMCLAIN | 11 | Cowboy who sings "Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'" in 15-Across (2 wds.) |
| 32% | FLAGPOLE | 8 | What Flick gets his tongue stuck to in "A Christmas Story" |
| 32% | GENESIMMONS | 11 | Kiss bassist/singer who starred in an A&E reality show about his family: 2 wds. |
| 32% | WEARSTHIN | 9 | Gets old, in a sense (2 wds.) |
| 32% | WEBPAGE | 7 | What a URL leads to: 2 wds. |
| 32% | SEATBELT | 8 | What a car passenger buckles: 2 wds. |
| 32% | AMI | 3 | "... what a good boy ___!": 2 wds. |