| 100% | HOME | 4 | With 18- and 19-Across, classic song that starts "'Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam" |
| 32% | CLEAR | 5 | With 64-Across, words that can precede the starts of 18-, 31-, 38- and 55-Across |
| 29% | HEATWAVE | 8 | Martha and the Vandellas hit song that starts, "Whenever I'm with him / Something inside / Starts to burning" (2 wds.) |
| 29% | TECHSTARTUP | 11 | New venture that may collaborate with Y Combinator, and what 18-, 24-, 40-, and 52-Across each literally has? |
| 29% | ELE | 3 | With 18- & 19-Across, Toys "R" Us department |
| 29% | JUNEIS | 6 | With 4 Down, 26 Across, and 18 Down, "Carousel" song famously slaughtered by Leslie Uggams |
| 29% | NYC | 3 | Song from the musical "Annie" that Daddy Warbucks starts singing along with Grace and Annie |
| 28% | BABY | 4 | With 30- and 31-Across, 1992 rap song that "Anaconda" samples extensively |
| 27% | SILVER | 6 | With 32-Across, 1976 movie that starred 18-Across and Richard Pryor |
| 27% | SONOFA | 6 | With 18-Across, Jimmy Buffett album that gave us "Cheeseburger in Paradise" |
| 27% | BUTDOCTOR | 9 | With 14 and 19 Across, punchline of a joke about a clown |
| 27% | IGOTORIO | 8 | Classic song that starts “When my baby / When my baby smiles at me” |
| 26% | ASIDE | 5 | Comment that might start with 96-Across |
| 26% | BLACKBIRD | 9 | Beatles song that starts with a color |
| 26% | CHINESE | 7 | With 27- and 36-Across, object that floated over the US in early 2023 |
| 26% | CHIPS | 5 | Things that 18-, 27-, 46- and 60-Across may have |
| 26% | SCARLET | 7 | With "The" and 45-Across, classic Looney Tunes cartoon that's a parody of a classic novel |
| 26% | PING | 4 | With 57-Across, game that includes the starts of 17-, 29-, 48- and 64-Across |
| 26% | MONSTERMASH | 11 | Classic song that starts "I was working in the lab late one night" [2003, 1970] |
| 26% | CARRIE | 6 | With 18-Across and 21-Down, National American Woman Suffrage Association president starting in 1900 |
| 26% | EBONYANDIVORY | 13 | 1982 Stevie Wonder/Paul McCartney song that also describes 18- and 40-Across: 3 wds. |
| 26% | ARIA | 4 | Song that may be performed with supertitles |
| 25% | BIGYELLOWTAXI | 13 | Song that starts "They paved paradise and put up a parking lot" |
| 25% | ISLANDSIN | 9 | With 40-Across, song that reached #1 on Billboard's country and Hot 100 charts in 1983: 2 wds. |
| 25% | OSAY | 4 | Start of a song that ends with "brave" |
| 25% | FRESH | 5 | With 28 Across, a new beginning (and with how 2020 has gone, we might all need it) |
| 25% | LEAN | 4 | With 51-Across, Bill Withers hit song that begins, "Sometimes in our lives / We all have pain" |
| 25% | BOSTON | 6 | With 32-Across, team that 18-Across played for his whole 19-year professional career |
| 25% | ALEXANDERPOPE | 13 | Author of the verse that starts with the beginnings of 20-, 34- and 42-Across |
| 25% | DELI | 4 | Where you might find the starts of 18-, 26-, 44- and 59-Across |