| 100% | FROSTYTHE | 9 | With 13-Across, song featuring a magical silk hat |
| 43% | PENNYLANE | 9 | Beatles song featuring "a banker with a motorcar" |
| 42% | FROSTY | 6 | ___ the Snowman, popular Christmas character, who can be brought to life by a magical silk hat |
| 42% | DONTCRYFOR | 10 | With 115 Across, song from a WAC musical? |
| 42% | JEANIEWITH | 10 | With 99 Across, song about a carnival attraction? |
| 40% | THEREISNOTHING | 14 | With 119-Across, “South Pacific” song ... or a declaration about the nine women featured in this puzzle? |
| 39% | THEFIRSTTIMEEVERI | 17 | With 127 Across, the best-selling hat song of 1972? |
| 39% | ARIANA | 6 | With 35-Across, "Problem" singer featured on three songs in Billboard's top 10 during a week in 2014 |
| 39% | ADEDICATEDFOLLOWER | 18 | With 84 Across, a 1966 song by the Kinks about Mussolini? |
| 39% | SIT | 3 | With 13-Across, observe a seven-day mourning period |
| 38% | GLASS | 5 | With 27 Across, 2022 film whose title was inspired by a Beatles song |
| 37% | ELASTICHEART | 12 | 2015 Sia song with a video featuring Shia LaBeouf: 2 wds. |
| 37% | SEEN | 4 | "Anybody ___ My Baby?" (Stones song with a video featuring Angelina Jolie) |
| 37% | ITENDS | 6 | With 13-Across, 2024 movie based on a Colleen Hoover novel |
| 37% | SEENO | 5 | With 13 Across, monkey message |
| 36% | SALLY | 5 | With 13 Across, "Normal People" author |
| 36% | OPEN | 4 | With 58-Across, a reception feature |
| 36% | TWODOORSDOWN | 12 | 1978 song that was turned into an episode of 13-/27-Across about a conservative family with a gay son: 3 wds. |
| 36% | RIVER | 5 | With 8-Across, triangular feature of a mouth |
| 36% | BARBARA | 7 | With 23-Across, a 1966 hit song |
| 36% | WHATA | 5 | With 15 and 20 Across, a 1967 song sung by Louis Armstrong in "Good Morning, Vietnam" |
| 36% | OHSUSANNA | 9 | Folk song featuring a banjo |
| 35% | POTATO | 6 | Food that rhymes with 13 Across |
| 35% | MOONS | 5 | "Many ___," 2008 song by Janelle Monae with a sci-fi themed music video featuring androids |
| 35% | OCASIO | 6 | With 13-Across, the "O" and "C" of the political world's A.O.C. |
| 35% | TOMMY | 5 | Rock 13-Across with the song "I'm Free" |
| 35% | LETITSNOW | 9 | With 37-Across and 37-Across, a holiday song |
| 35% | WHEREOHWHEREHAS | 15 | With 62-Across, question in a children's song |
| 35% | WHAT | 4 | With 34-Across, question in a 2013 Ylvis song |
| 34% | GRAD | 4 | One with a 13-Across |