| 100% | ONEBASE | 7 | What a walk in the ballpark will get you / (next line) It's spelled out in an Aretha Franklin hit |
| 43% | ERNST | 5 | Young partner / (next line) It's spelled out in a Travis Tritt hit |
| 42% | IINSIST | 7 | Response to a polite refusal / (next line) It's spelled out in a Tammy Wynette hit |
| 40% | RESPECT | 7 | Word spelled out in an Aretha Franklin hit |
| 38% | RESPECT | 7 | Word spelled out in an Aretha Franklin 1967 hit song |
| 35% | STANDINGO | 9 | What it's called when you get a rise out of an audience, for short? |
| 34% | HOTTOGO | 7 | Chappell Roan hit with an accompanying dance in which the letters of the song's name are spelled out |
| 33% | COBB | 4 | What would you call a salad with the ingredients lined up in rows? |
| 32% | XXXXXXXXXXXX | 12 | It's estimated to be a foot in the next 25 years |
| 32% | NOONE | 5 | Who can get in the way of what Alicia Keys feels for you, in a 2007 hit |
| 32% | FIVE | 4 | Half of a decade or the next number in a New Year's countdown (go to 34d to find out what you can do next year) |
| 31% | EARWORM | 7 | The 1975 hit "Can't Get It Out of My Head" would be an appropriate one |
| 31% | NOONE | 5 | Who "can get in the way of what I feel for you," in a 2007 #1 Alicia Keys hit |
| 31% | TWO | 3 | Pair count or the next number in a New Year's countdown (go to 45d to find out what you can do next year) |
| 31% | FOUR | 4 | Beatles count or the next number in a New Year's countdown (go to 35d to find out what you can do next year) |
| 31% | THREE | 5 | Trio number or the next number in a New Year's countdown (go to 37d to find out what you can do next year) |
| 31% | SEVEN | 5 | Oft lucky number or the next number in a New Year's countdown (go to 18d to find out what you can do next year) |
| 31% | NINE | 4 | Cat lives count or the next number in a New Year's countdown (go to 3d to find out what you can do next year) |
| 31% | AJAR | 4 | What a door is when it's not a door, in an old joke |
| 31% | PROSHOP | 7 | What might be in trouble if it's out of the woods? |
| 30% | LOT | 3 | What the $116 million shelled out in 2011 for Elizabeth Taylor's jewels got you |
| 30% | EIGHT | 5 | Number that sounds like "ate" or the next number in a New Year's countdown (go to 7d to find out what you can do next year) |
| 30% | BED | 3 | What you get out of in the morning |
| 30% | RESPECT | 7 | #1 song hit whose title is spelled out in the lyrics |
| 30% | RESPECT | 7 | 1967 #1 hit whose title is spelled out in the lyric |
| 30% | ODOR | 4 | What you hope will come out in the wash |
| 29% | TAMPAPROOF | 10 | What a team hopes its front line is against the Buccaneers? |
| 29% | CHAIN | 5 | What a "series" of fools may be called, according to an Aretha Franklin song? |
| 29% | MINUET | 6 | It's done in the form of an S or a Z |
| 29% | TIME | 4 | What's seen on a clock ... and an invisible ingredient for farmers to grow the crops you see in the puzzle |