| 100% | THEFARMER | 9 | With 119-Across, country lunch customer of song? |
| 47% | SOLONG | 6 | With 20 Across, "The Sound of Music" song |
| 45% | TRANSFER | 8 | With 119 Across, one changing schools ... and what you must do between seven pairs of schools in this puzzle |
| 43% | THEFIRSTTIMEEVERI | 17 | With 127 Across, the best-selling hat song of 1972? |
| 39% | KNICKKNACK | 10 | With 44-Across, part of a children's song refrain |
| 39% | HARE | 4 | Word in many cartoon titles with 119 Across |
| 38% | SINGLE | 6 | With 31-Across, 2010 Grammy Song of the Year by Beyoncé |
| 38% | ARLO | 4 | With 23-Across, singer of the song referenced at 6-Down |
| 38% | PARTRIDGE | 9 | With 14-Across, first (and last) gift of a seasonal song |
| 38% | BRYAN | 5 | With 36-Across, "Summer of '69" singer with the 1985 song "Heaven" |
| 38% | TIPTOE | 6 | With 63-Across, song in the 1929 film Gold Diggers of Broadway |
| 38% | LAKE | 4 | With 24-Across, body of water that's in four African countries |
| 37% | EMOBANDS | 8 | Performers of songs with confessional lyrics |
| 37% | BROWN | 5 | With 5 Across, paper lunch holder |
| 36% | YODEL | 5 | Type of song associated with Swiss mountains |
| 36% | SUE | 3 | Boy of song with an ''awful name'' |
| 36% | RHODY | 5 | Aunt of song with an expired goose |
| 36% | SOLOS | 5 | Parts of songs with just one instrument |
| 36% | PATSY | 5 | With 33-Across, singer of "Crazy," the 1992 campaign song for H. Ross Perot |
| 36% | HITS | 4 | Songs with millions of downloads |
| 36% | HUSTLE | 6 | Type of disco dance with its own song |
| 36% | CANDYGRAM | 9 | A box of chocolates delivered with a song |
| 36% | IMNOT | 5 | With 49-Across, song that won 14-Across his Best Country Song Grammy: 2 wds. |
| 36% | EGYPT | 5 | Country with lots of pyramid schemes? |
| 36% | SILENT | 6 | With 63 Across, source of quote |
| 36% | RACHEL | 6 | With 12 Across, author of quote |
| 36% | BARACK | 6 | With 9 Across, winner of 2008 |
| 36% | IAN | 3 | With 49 Across, speaker of quote |
| 36% | SEAN | 4 | With 25 Across, subject of quote |
| 36% | YOGI | 4 | With 36 Across, source of quote |