| 100% | NOONEIKNOW | 10 | Who "can seem to help me now" in the lyrics to Guns N' Roses' "Estranged" |
| 37% | AXL | 3 | ___ Rose, lead singer of Guns N' Roses with the hit "Sweet Child o' Mine" who can hit high notes |
| 35% | STP | 3 | Brand in the lyrics to "Slide Some Oil to Me" from "The Wiz" |
| 35% | EMU | 3 | Australian bird mentioned in the lyrics to Barenaked Ladies' "If I Had $1000000" |
| 34% | AXL | 3 | Rose who rose to fame in the 1980s |
| 34% | HELLO | 5 | Adele song with the lyric "I'm in California dreaming about who we used to be" |
| 34% | LYNDA | 5 | Carter who rose to prominence in the seventies |
| 33% | DUKEOFEARL | 10 | The "me" in "nothing can stop me now," in a 1962 #1 hit |
| 33% | ONCELER | 7 | Character who sings "How Bad Can I Be?" in The Lorax |
| 33% | LOLA | 4 | The "she" in the lyric "She walked up to me and she asked me to dance" |
| 33% | CAHN | 4 | Sammy who wrote the lyrics to "Ain't That a Kick in the Head" |
| 33% | SAMURAIS | 8 | Japanese warriors who rose to power in the 12th century |
| 33% | JENNY | 5 | Woman in a 1982 hit who can be reached using the starts of the answers to the starred clues |
| 32% | NOVEMBERRAIN | 12 | 1992 Guns N' Roses song with a weather word in the title (2 wds.) |
| 32% | AGILER | 6 | Like someone who can trip the light fantastic, when compared to me |
| 32% | WETTEESHOTCONTESTS | 18 | Competitions to see who can drive a ball farthest in the rain? |
| 32% | MRDARCY | 7 | To whom it is said, “I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry” |
| 32% | LOVEDROUGHT | 11 | Beyonce song with the lyric "You and me could make it rain now" |
| 32% | AXL | 3 | Rose who skipped the 2012 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction of his group Guns N' Roses |
| 32% | IRA | 3 | Gershwin who wrote the lyrics to "I Got Rhythm" |
| 32% | MUCH | 4 | "That Don't Impress Me ___," 1998 song by Shania Twain that refers to Brad Pitt in the lyrics |
| 31% | EVERLONG | 8 | Foo Fighters song with the lyric "Breathe out, so I can breathe you in" |
| 31% | NORA | 4 | Name that can fill in the blank in ME___H to form a word |
| 31% | CHANGEDMAN | 10 | Whole new person who can literally be found in the answers to starred clues |
| 31% | HELLO | 5 | Adele hit song with the lyric "When I call, you never seem to be home" |
| 31% | INVISIBLE | 9 | 52-Across song with the lyric "Then I could just watch you in your room" |
| 31% | PATHFINDERS | 11 | Explorers ... and ones who can determine what the answers to starred clues have in common? |
| 31% | ARTMODELL | 9 | N.F.L. owner who moved the Cleveland Browns to Baltimore in 1996 |
| 31% | MASHA | 5 | The Seagull character who says, "I dress in black to match my life. I am unhappy." |
| 30% | LLOYDBRIDGES | 12 | Actor who says, "Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue" in the 1980 comedy "Airplane!" (2 wds.) |