| 100% | PENNYLANE | 9 | Where all the people that come and go stop and say "hello," in a 1967 hit |
| 86% | PENNYLANE | 9 | Where “all the people that come and go stop and say hello,” per a 1967 song |
| 76% | PENNYLANE | 9 | Where "all the people that come and go stop and say hello," per the Beatles (1967) |
| 75% | PENNYLANE | 9 | Where "all the people that come and go stop and say hello" |
| 40% | STORM | 5 | Windy and cold natural phenomenon that comes after the calm, in a saying |
| 38% | HEREWITHME | 10 | 2019 hit song by 17-Down featuring Chvrches with the lyrics "You're saying the words that I want you to say / There's a pain in my heart and it won't go away" (3 wds.) |
| 35% | TOSEA | 5 | Where the owl and the pussycat went, in a poem |
| 35% | GTO | 3 | Car that "beats the gassers and the rail jobs" in a 1964 hit |
| 34% | YMCA | 4 | Where "you can hang out with all the boys" in a Village People song |
| 34% | BIGPOPPA | 8 | 1995 platinum rap hit that starts "To all the ladies in the place with style and grace" |
| 34% | ANGIE | 5 | Girl's name said twice in a Rolling Stones hit before "When will those clouds all disappear?" |
| 34% | MARCH | 5 | Month that comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb |
| 33% | THEWORKS | 8 | All the options that come with a meal |
| 33% | HELL | 4 | Where people go to, and come back from, during an unpleasant event, it is said |
| 33% | HOMERUN | 7 | In baseball, a hit that enables the batter to run round all four bases |
| 32% | FREDDY | 6 | Singer Fender with a 1975 hit that went to #1 on both the pop and country charts |
| 32% | CAST | 4 | All the people in a movie |
| 32% | AGING | 5 | Getting on in years, and a process that everyone in the world goes through (:-o) |
| 31% | BERNADETTE | 10 | Title woman in a 1967 hit single by the Four Tops |
| 31% | DOTCOM | 6 | Business that may have gone boom and then bust in the '90s |
| 31% | ONLYTHELONELY | 13 | 1960 Roy Orbison hit that has the same title as, and is featured in, a 1991 John Candy film (3 wds.) |
| 31% | ROBIN | 5 | Bird that "rocks in the treetops all day long, hoppin' and a-boppin' and singin' his song" |
| 31% | SPOT | 4 | Parking ___, place in the car lot where you might be parked, and something that seems impossible to find when you're in a rush |
| 31% | OHPRETTYWOMAN | 13 | 1964 Roy Orbison hit that has almost the same title as, and is featured in, a 1990 Julia Roberts film (3 wds.) |
| 31% | ROME | 4 | Where all roads lead, in a saying |
| 31% | HOME | 4 | Where the heart is, in a saying |
| 31% | THEDEEPEND | 10 | *Where to dive in a pool ... and what the answers to starred clues all share? |
| 31% | ALFIE | 5 | To whom Dionne Warwick asked "What's it all about?" in a 1967 hit |
| 30% | ELOISE | 6 | Fictional girl who says "I go to all the weddings in the White and Gold room and I usually stay for the reception" |
| 30% | BELONG | 6 | "Up Where We ___," song from the movie "An Officer and a Gentleman" that won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1982 |