| 100% | THEFIRSTTIMEEVERI | 17 | With 127 Across, the best-selling hat song of 1972? |
| 50% | BOOBY | 5 | With 127 Across, one of many devices thwarting the burglars in "Home Alone" |
| 45% | BEATLES | 7 | The best-selling musical act of all time, with the |
| 44% | SOLONG | 6 | With 20 Across, "The Sound of Music" song |
| 43% | BEETHOVENSONE | 13 | With 127-Across, classical work that's the source of the European Union's anthem |
| 42% | ADELE | 5 | Singer with the best-selling album of 2021 |
| 42% | ROAR | 4 | Katy Perry song used by the Bengals that didn't sit well with many of their fans |
| 41% | ARLO | 4 | With 23-Across, singer of the song referenced at 6-Down |
| 41% | BRYAN | 5 | With 36-Across, "Summer of '69" singer with the 1985 song "Heaven" |
| 40% | JOYLUCKCLUB | 11 | Best-selling novel of 1989, with "The" |
| 40% | PATSY | 5 | With 33-Across, singer of "Crazy," the 1992 campaign song for H. Ross Perot |
| 39% | OTIS | 4 | With 72 Across, the King of Elevator Music? |
| 39% | COMMERCE | 8 | The activity of buying and selling goods |
| 39% | GREASE | 6 | 1972 musical with the song "Summer Nights" |
| 39% | GARCIA | 6 | 1972 solo album with the song "Sugaree" |
| 38% | IRON | 4 | With 21 Across, one of the Avengers |
| 38% | GEORGE | 6 | With 39 Across, coiner of the slogan |
| 38% | LEONARD | 7 | With 18 Across, recipient of the comment |
| 38% | ALLFORONE | 9 | With 24 Across, slogan of The Three Musketeers |
| 38% | PRIME | 5 | The best years of your life, and a word that rhymes with "time" |
| 38% | AVATAR | 6 | One of the best selling movies of all time |
| 37% | TOMORROWISALONG | 15 | With 69 Across, Bob Dylan song about the future |
| 37% | SANTAAY | 7 | Song with the lyric "Been an awful good girl" |
| 37% | DOLLYPARTONS | 12 | With 27-Across, Netflix anthology series dramatizing the stories behind some of a singer's songs: 2 wds. |
| 37% | RENT | 4 | Musical with the song "Seasons of Love" |
| 37% | LAMARSEILLAISE | 14 | Song of the 56-Across |
| 37% | FEELINGS | 8 | Hit song of the 1970s with a repetitive "whoa whoa whoa" chorus |
| 37% | SINGLE | 6 | With 31-Across, 2010 Grammy Song of the Year by Beyoncé |
| 37% | ARRIVEDERCIROMA | 15 | Song with the lyric "City of a million warm embraces" |
| 37% | LINE | 4 | With 14 Across, payoff at the end of a joke |